2007-05-22 Demand for Ethanol Made From Corn Is Fueling Criticism
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. This season, American farmers expect to plant their biggest corn crop since…
2007-05-15 Fighting Fire Ants With a Virus of Their Own
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in parts of the United States have struggled for years with…
2007-05-08 Looking Behind the ‘Fairtrade’ Label
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Coffee drinkers are not the only ones willing to pay more for…
2007-05-01 Seed Collection Effort Aims to Safeguard 21 Food Crops
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new project will try to protect twenty-one of the world’s most…
2007-04-24 Officials Hunt for an Explanation of Pet Food Scare
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Melamine is an industrial chemical. So how and why did it get…
2007-04-17 Lonely Farmers Look for Love Online
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The Web site FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder.…
2007-04-10 Disappearance of Honey Bees a Mystery
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. What has happened to America’s honeybees? Last fall, beekeepers from states with…
2007-04-03 Much to Be Said for Mulch
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Mulch is important to farmers. Mulch is a protective cover of material…
2007-03-27 Trying to Understand Food Labels
This the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. It can be hard to decide which foods to buy in an American…
2007-03-20 Americans Warned of Higher Food Prices as Corn Goes to Ethanol
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States Department of Agriculture says high demand for ethanol fuel…
2007-03-13 How This Little Piggy Goes to Market
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For Chinese, this is the Year of the Pig. So this is…
2007-03-06 Getting the Most Out of Marginal Lands
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. To call something “marginal” means it is not very good. Farmers have…
2007-02-27 Wind Farming Spreads in US
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For centuries, farmers have used windmills to pump water, crush grain and…
2007-02-20 Insect Threatens Ash Trees in US
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A beetle invasion in the United States has killed at least twenty…
2007-02-13 Raising Goats for Their Hair
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Goats are raised not just for their milk and meat, and their…