Fruit/Vegetable

Food Industry Bitten by Its Lobbying Success

Associated Press
July 25, 2008 - Industry watchers say regulatory changes such as limiting paperwork that would help investigators trace produce are underlying causes of safety problems....
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Dolly Destroys Texas Cotton, Sorghum Crops

Associated Press/AP Online
July 25, 2008 - The fields had already been damaged by heavy rains earlier this summer....
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A Hot (Pepper) Lead in Hunt for Salmonella Source

Associated Press/AP Online
July 24, 2008 - Infections in Minnesota, thousands of miles away from where and weeks after when the initial cases were discovered, led officials to focus on jalapenos and serranos....
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Expert: Wheat Residue Is Most Valuable as Natural Fertilizer

Associated Press/AP Online
July 24, 2008 - Ann Kennedy, a U.S. Department of Agriculture soil scientist, is urging farmers not to collect residue and sell it for ethanol production....
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EPA Postpones Decision on Ethanol Requirements

Associated Press
July 23, 2008 - The agency has yet to issue a decision on Texas' request to temporarily lower ethanol requirements for gasoline, a change Gov. Rick Perry says is needed to rein in corn prices....
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Effects Linger From Last Summer's Drought in W.Va.

Associated Press/AP Online
July 23, 2008 - In 2007, the state's 21,000 farms suffered millions of dollars in losses from the driest summer in years. This year, a too-wet spring delayed planting....
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In Ohio, Farmers Cutting 'Quality' Wheat Crop

The Daily Record (Wooster, Ohio)
July 23, 2008 - The National Agricultural Statistics Service has reported that 99 percent of Ohio's winter wheat is now ripe....
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'Super Berry' Poses Risk to UK's Tomato and Potato Crops

The Independent on Sunday (UK)
July 22, 2008 - Goji berries might look innocuous, but smuggling of plants driven by the current craze for this "superfood" could devastate Britain's native produce....
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U.S. Inspectors Accused of Knowingly Okaying Bad Produce

United Press International
July 22, 2008 - Three Texas-based USDA officers have been charged with allowing truckloads of infested vegetables and flowers from Mexico to enter the U.S. without proper fumigation....
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Argentina's President Drops Export Tax Hike

Associated Press
July 21, 2008 - The Argentine Senate had voted down the special levies on grains, and farmers had protested against the taxes....
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