Category: Agriculture Report (农业报道)

I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. To increase profits, some farmers change what they grow. But some farmers in the American Midwest are changing where they…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A listener in Burkina Faso named Irisso wants to know the place that agriculture occupies in the United States economy.…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bees not only produce honey and wax, they also provide an important service to farmers. Many crops require bees to…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Last week we talked about how bees make honey. Yet bees also produce other useful materials. Beeswax is another product,…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Most people have heard the sound of bees among flowers. Bees live almost everywhere in the world — except the…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In many colder northern countries, poinsettias are a sure sign that Christmas is near. Nearly all sales of this flowering…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cranberries are a little red fruit native to North America. They are raised on more than sixteen thousand hectares across…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Goats have provided meat and milk for people longer than sheep or cows have. There are several hundred million goats…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. China says it will give all of its farm birds a vaccine to protect them against avian influenza. The chief…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The Forest Service is responsible for the forests on public lands in the United States. It supervises almost seventy-eight million…

I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Students are taught at an early age about how insects help plants reproduce. Schoolchildren learn that plants release sweet juices,…

I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Many Americans celebrated Halloween on Monday by placing pumpkins outside their homes. A Halloween tradition is to cut a face…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Apples are the second most valuable fruit crop in the United States, after oranges. Autumn is a time when fresh…

I’m Shep O’Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Plant scientists consider them fruit. Most other people think of them as vegetables. Whatever you call tomatoes, there are many…

I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Raising cows for milk is not an easy way to farm. The costs and labor involved make it difficult for…