2009-12-29 Circular Thinking: Round Barns on US Farms
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American farmers traditionally keep their animals and equipment in barns that are…
2009-12-22 How a Hoop House Can Extend the Growing Season
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we discuss the greenhouse effect. Farmers and gardeners have long used…
2009-12-15 Officials in US Look for Fixes to Carp Problems
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Last week our subject was illegal fishing. Now we report on two…
2009-12-08 An International Treaty Targets Fishing Abuses
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some pirates catch fish instead of ships. The problem is known as…
2009-12-01 Making Better Concrete With Rice?
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rice hulls, or husks, are the protective coverings on grains of rice.…
2009-11-24 Earl Cooley: Remembering an Early Smokejumper
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Years ago, a young forester took an unusual new job. Earl Cooley…
2009-11-17 Two Efforts Seek to Increase Food Security in Africa
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project…
2009-11-10 Why Holding Fruit on Trees May Limit Next Year’s Crop
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Alternate bearing is a widespread problem for growers of citrus and other…
2009-11-03 Group Works to Expand Supply of Cattle Vaccine in Africa
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Each year a million cows in Africa die from East Coast fever.…
2009-10-27 With Resistant Crops, Progress Can Raise New Problems
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Plant breeders and genetic engineers keep working to give crops the strength…
2009-10-20 Learning the Secrets of the Potato, and an Enemy
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists now have a genetic map of the potato. The project is…
2009-10-13 Scientists Help Cut the Mystery Behind Pruning
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We talked last week about when and how to prune plants. Today…
2009-10-06 Do-It-Yourself: Pruning Plants (First of Two Parts)
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Pruning makes no sense. You cut off parts of a plant. Yet…
2009-09-29 How to Strike Oil (From Seeds, That Is)
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. From the beginning of human history, people have used oils from seeds…
2009-09-22 Remembering Norman Borlaug
This the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Norman Borlaug led what was known as the Green Revolution. As a plant…