2008-10-28 A Clean Farm Can Reduce Risk of Mastitis
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cows, sheep, goats and other animals can get mastitis, an inflammation in the udder, the organ where milk is produced. Milk from…
2008-10-21 Getting Farmers Back to the Land in D.R.C.
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The Food and Agriculture Organization recently reported that hunger increased by seventy-five million people last year. The United Nations agency blamed rising…
2008-10-14 A Farm in the City Sprouts a ‘Genius’
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farming means growing crops on a good-size piece of land in the country, right? Well, a farm can also produce food in…
2008-10-07 US Food Stores Must Identify More Foods by Country
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. New rules will let millions of Americans know where more of their food came from. The law is known as COOL —…
2007-09-30 ‘Catch Shares’: A Better Way to Share the World’s Fish?
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Too much fishing has reduced many fishery populations by ninety percent or more from their highest recorded numbers. Some fishing seasons last…
2008-09-23 Burros as Guard Dogs on the Farm
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A burro is a small donkey. Donkeys are related to horses; both are part of the equine family. Another way people say…
2008-09-16 Finding the Biological Roots of a Virus That Ruins Maize Crops
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The maize streak virus causes one of the most destructive crop diseases in Africa. Not only is it economically damaging, it can…
2008-09-09 Poultry Farms With Unhappy Neighbors? Plant Some Trees
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Planting trees around poultry farms can improve air and water quality — and please the noses of neighbors. Scientists have shown that…
2008-09-02 Seeking a New Future for ‘Lost’ Fruits of Africa
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We have a question from a health worker — and longtime listener — in Nigeria. James Uwaifoh says there are many food…
2008-08-26 Locavores Like Their Food Close to Home
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A locavore is someone who eats foods produced locally. Locavores usually define local as within one hundred sixty kilometers. This new term…
2008-08-19 Getting Started Raising Sheep
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Two different people — one in Russia, the other in California — recently asked us about raising sheep. So today we offer…
2008-08-12 Special Feed for Swine May Help Farmers’ Crops, the Environment
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Research shows that waste from pigs that are fed a special kind of corn may help a farmer’s crops. And it also…
2008-08-05 Raising Goats for Their Hair
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Goats are valuable not just for their milk and meat. Or for their ability to help renew grasslands and control weeds. Or…
2008-07-29 Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers use different kinds of soil conservation methods to protect their land from damage by farming and the forces of nature. One…
2008-07-22 Probable Sale of America’s Largest Sugar Cane Grower Pleases Activists for Everglades
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States Sugar Corporation and the State of Florida are negotiating final sale of more than seventy-five thousand hectares of the…