2004-01-06 New Rules to Fight Mad Cow
This is the VOA Special English AGRICULTURE REPORT. Last week, American Secretary of Agriculture Ann Venemanannounced new rules to protect the nation’s food supply from Mad CowDisease. The rules represent…
2003-12-30 Mad Cow Disease in America
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Last Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced thefirst case of mad cow disease in the United States. A test seemed…
2003-12-23 Raising Chickens
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Raising chickens or other birds for their eggs and meat is apopular family and business activity almost everywhere in the…
2003-12-16 Christmas Trees
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Many people do not think of treesas a crop. But Christmas trees are a crop just like any other. Inthe…
2003-12-09 Biotech Corn and the EU
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Genetically engineered crops are part of American agriculture.But farmers also have to make decisions based on the markets fortheir crops.…
2003-12-02 Turkeys in the U.S.
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Last Thursday, millions ofAmericans ate turkey as part of a traditional meal on Thanksgiving,a national holiday. Turkey is also popular…
2003-11-25 Pressing Oil from Seeds
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. From the beginning of human history, people have used oils fromseeds and nuts. Most of the time these oils are…
2003-11-18 Forcing Bulbs
Ever since that time, the Netherlands has been the world’sbiggest producer of tulip bulbs. Tulip bulbs alone are a forty-onemillion dollar export business. In the northern part of the world,…
2003-11-11 Commodity Futures Markets
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Consider the life of a crop farmer. One year, the growingconditions are excellent. The farmer has a huge crop.…
2003-11-04 Asian Lady Beetle
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. There are lots of insects thatfarmers hate. But there also are some they like. These protect cropsagainst damage from other…
2003-10-28 Biosolids
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Farmers have long put animal waste on their fields. They may alsouse human waste. Modern ways to process waste and…
2003-10-21 Snap Beans
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Snap beans possess the goodqualities of other beans, but they may be less well known. Snapbeans are native to the…
2003-10-14 G22′ Developing Nations
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. In September, the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun,Mexico, ended without an agreement. There was strong debate aboutpayments to farmers…
2003-10-07 Agroecology, Part 2
This is Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Today we finish a two-part series. A listener in Brazil askedabout agroecology. This is a field of ideas about how…
2003-09-30 Agroecology, Part 1
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. This week, we take a suggestion from a listener in Brazil.Agricultural specialist Luiz Augusto Verona in Chapeco would like tohear…