2006-06-20 Food Prize Goes to Three Who Helped Open Brazil’s ‘Closed Lands’
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Three men who worked to make the Cerrado area of…
2006-06-13 Raising Rabbits Offers a Big Return From a Small Investment
This is Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rabbits are easy to raise. The long-eared animals are…
2006-06-06 Study Finds Only Five Percent of Tropical Forests Are Being Protected
This is Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A major study has looked at efforts to save…
2006-05-30 Carbon Trading: How the Chicago Climate Exchange Works
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A carbon exchange is like a stock exchange for pollution.…
2006-05-23 More Organic Foods at Wal-Mart Stores
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Sales of organic foods in the United States have been…
2006-05-16 Chicago Board of Trade Moves Into the Future
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the largest…
2006-05-09 Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops
I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers use different kinds of soil conservation methods to protect…
2006-05-02 Going Biotech on the Farm: Second of Two Parts
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers from a number of countries were in Chicago recently…
2006-04-25 Going Biotech: A Spanish Farmer Discusses His Experience
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The Biotechnology Industry Organization, or BIO, held its two thousand…
2006-04-18 How Farm Pay Compares to Industrial Pay in America
This is Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A listener in China asks about the earnings of…
2006-04-11 Insects Eating Your Crops? Call on a Ladybug
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. There are lots of insects that farmers hate. But there…
2006-04-04 Scientists Clone Pigs to Make Omega-3 Fatty Acids
I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists say they have developed pigs that produce omega-three fatty…
2006-03-28 Bird Flu: Composting the Remains of Farm Birds
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers usually have to destroy all of their chickens and…
2006-03-21 Why Farm Aid Has its Critics and Supporters
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Aid to farmers has become a major issue in world…
2006-03-14 More Nations Move to Vaccinate Farm Birds Against Deadly Flu
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Until last year, only China, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam widely…