Category: Agriculture Report (农业报道)

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The common housefly is unwelcome around food because flies can carry disease-causing germs. Now, scientists have shown that the insects can also…

This the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Parsley is an ancient green and a respected addition to many foods. But other times, its job is just to make a mealtime…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When is a plant a weed? When its undesirable qualities outweigh its good points, say experts at Penn State University. Weeds can…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. On February seventeenth, the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company of Chino, California, recalled almost sixty-five million kilograms of beef. The government declared the products…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For years, most of the household waste collected in America’s largest city went to a landfill on Staten Island. Staten Island is…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Wheat supplies around the world are at their lowest level in thirty years. Wheat supplies in the United States are at their…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Back in the year two thousand, big producers of poplar trees in the American Pacific Northwest needed help. Their hybrid poplars, nearly…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in the United States sometimes plant switchgrass as a border crop. But could this tall grass lower the nation’s dependence on…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States provides more than half the world’s food assistance. American programs totaled close to two billion dollars last year. But…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States government has decided that food from cloned cattle, pigs and goats is safe to eat. The Food and Drug…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A study from Canada says fish farms are a threat to some populations of wild salmon. It says the danger is from…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them. Moving animals from one area of pasture to another…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. American farmers traditionally keep their animals and equipment in barns that are rectangular, longer than they are wide. But as many as…

Now, a Special English program for the New Year. I’m Faith Lapidus. The New Year is the time for new beginnings. It is also the time to buy a new…

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. December twenty-fifth is Christmas. The holiday has many traditions. Some special trees and plants are part of the Christmas tradition. One of…