2008-07-01 Study Sees Risk to California Plants From Climate Change
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. California has more than two thousand kinds of plants that are not…
2008-06-24 Adding Up Crop Losses From Midwest Floods
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers in parts of the American Midwest face a difficult recovery after…
2008-06-17 Climate Change Meets American Agriculture
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A government report says climate change is already affecting American agriculture. The…
2008-06-10 World Gets a Call to Raise Food Production
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A United Nations conference on rising food prices ended with an agreement…
2008-06-03 Researchers Seek Drought-Resistant Crops
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. One cause of the current food crisis is drought. Food prices are…
2008-05-27 UN Aims to Raise Potatoes’ Appeal
Some governments and agricultural experts have this advice to help people deal with high grain prices: Eat more potatoes. The…
2008-05-20 Cork: More Than Just a Bottle Stopper
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Cork is a light brown material harvested from the cork oak tree.…
2008-05-13 Honey Bee Losses Still a Problem in US
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Honey bees add billions of dollars in value to around one hundred…
2008-05-06 Using Charcoal to Make Soil Into Black Gold
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. In South America, the fertile soil of the Amazon River basin in…
2008-04-29 Damage Control on the Farm
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The United States Department of Agriculture has a program called Wildlife Services.…
2008-04-22 When Tuberculosis Hits Animals
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bovine tuberculosis is a progressive wasting disease. It affects mainly cattle but…
2008-04-15 Fighting a Food Crisis That Threatens to Spread Hunger and Unrest
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Food inflation has led to growing protests in developing countries. In Haiti,…
2008-04-08 The Danger of Desertification
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Desertification is a process. It changes productive land into useless land. One…
2008-04-01 Study Shows Flies Can Pass Salmonella to Chickens
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The common housefly is unwelcome around food because flies can carry disease-causing…
2008-03-25 Parsley: Not Just Another Pretty Green
This the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Parsley is an ancient green and a respected addition to many foods. But…