2004-02-24 U.S. Cattle Industry Update
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. United States agriculture officials have ended theirinvestigation into the case…
2004-02-17 Bird Flu Update
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Chicken farmers in the northeastern United States are dealingwith a…
2004-02-10 Sunflower Rubber
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Sunflower plants grow tall andproduce a beautiful flower. The seeds…
2004-02-03 Bird Flu in Asia
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. United Nations agencies arecalling for money and technical help for…
2004-01-27 Congress Delays Country-of-Origin Labeling
This is Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. The United States Congress has acted to delay a new…
2004-01-20 International Year of Rice
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2004 theInternational Year…
2004-01-13 Economic Effects of Mad Cow Disease
This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Reports suggest that the first case of mad cow disease…
2004-01-06 New Rules to Fight Mad Cow
This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Last week, American Secretary of Agriculture Ann Venemanannounced new rules to protect…
2003-12-30 Mad Cow Disease in America
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Last Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced thefirst case of…
2003-12-23 Raising Chickens
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Raising chickens or other birds for their eggs and meat…
2003-12-16 Christmas Trees
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Many people do not think of treesas a crop. But…
2003-12-09 Biotech Corn and the EU
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Genetically engineered crops are part of American agriculture.But farmers also…
2003-12-02 Turkeys in the U.S.
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Last Thursday, millions ofAmericans ate turkey as part of a…
2003-11-25 Pressing Oil from Seeds
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. From the beginning of human history, people have used oils…
2003-11-18 Forcing Bulbs
Ever since that time, the Netherlands has been the world’sbiggest producer of tulip bulbs. Tulip bulbs alone are a forty-onemillion…