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…
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…
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,…
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…
2003-10-28 Biosolids
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Farmers have long put animal waste on their fields. They…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2003-09-23 Home Gardens, Part 3
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English AgricultureReport. Today we finish our series on homegardens. One of the…
2003-09-16 Home Gardens, Part 2
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Last week, we told how to choose a place for a home…
2003-09-09 Home Gardens, Part 1
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For many people, growing crops on a small piece of land is…
2003-09-02 Dairy Goat Production
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Goats have provided meat and milkfor people longer than sheep or cows.…
2003-08-26 Growing Tomatoes
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Plant scientists consider themfruit. Most other people think of them as vegetables.…
2003-08-19 Antimicrobial Drugs in Agriculture
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A study has found no serious effects after farmers in Denmarkended the…