41. TEXAS CROP, WEATHER REPORT adequate. Cotton starting to emerge and looks good. corn crops have goodgrowth due to recent rains. Wheat harvest completed. Livestock http://agnews.tamu.edu/dailynews/stories/CROP/Jun2700a.htm

June 27, 2000 TEXAS CROP, WEATHER REPORT Contact: Edith Chenault, (979)-845-2886, e-chenault1@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION - Watermelon growers in the state's Winter Garden are calling this year's crop a sweet success, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service reports. Dr. Larry Stein, Extension horticulturist in Uvalde said Texas growers planted 35,000 acres of watermelons this year, ranking first in national production. He said the watermelon harvest began in early May in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. West of San Antonio, in the Winter Garden, harvest began three weeks ago and is expected to peak with July 4th celebrations, Stein said. "Growers are aiming to have ripe watermelons for the 4th of July market," he said. "It's an excellent crop this year." Stein said watermelons are considerably drought tolerant, and most crops are irrigated. He said growers in the Winter Garden also escaped the grasshopper problems that many producers faced. Stein said as a result, the main challenge to growers was downy mildew. "We had occurrences late in the season due to recent rainfalls," he said. "It's favored by cool, wet nights and warm, humid days. It defoliates the vine but does not hurt the stem or fruit."

42. Stowaway U.S. Corn Rootworm Eats Its Way Across Europe Corn Field The western corn rootworm has infested corn crops in nine Europeancountries. This tenacious pest costs US farmers $1 billion annually. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0829_wirecornworm.html

Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter Also see: Today's Top Stories This Story E-mail this story Sponsored in part by Stowaway U.S. Corn Rootworm Eats Its Way Across Europe Tom Hundley Chicago Tribune September 24, 2001 As far as farmers in Yugoslavia are concerned, a tiny beetle known as the western corn rootworm is an unholy force of nature more devastating than a drought and fiendishly smarter than all of the smart bombs unleashed by NATO during the 1999 Kosovo war. Corn Field The western corn rootworm has infested corn crops in nine European countries. This tenacious pest costs U.S. farmers $1 billion annually. Photograph by Craig Aurness/CORBIS More News Diary of the Planet The Environment Travel National Geographic Today Special Series Digital Lifestyles: feature by Sony EarthPulse National Geographic Out There ... Mount Everest Expedition Arriving at the airport in the Yugoslav capital, she liked what she saw: soil and climate almost identical to her native Illinois, miles and miles of gently rolling cornfields. She settled in for a feast. With its prodigious appetite and prolific capacity for reproduction, the western corn rootworm has been the bane of Midwestern farmers since the 1950s. The yearly cost, measured in crop losses and pesticide expenses, is estimated at U.S. $1 billion.

43. Cosmic Crops But he believes it is well worth the effort. This research could have significantimplications for the future of Ontario corn crops, he says. http://www.uoguelph.ca/research/publications/Assets/HTML_MAGS/plants/p8.html

Getting tough on corn disease Biotechnology delivers Fusarium resistance to corn Fusarium graminearum ear mould in corn. They say the research could give Ontario an edge in corn production. This research is being sponsored by the AAFC through the CanAdapt program (administered by the Agricultural Adaptation Council) and through the Ontario Research Enhancement Program. It's also being sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. By Marianne Clark

44. MEDLINEplus: Medicine Crops To Stay In Midwest Despite Concerns Under the proposed rules, corn crops spliced to produce medicine would have to beplanted at least one mile away from plants destined for human and livestock http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_11900.html

Skip navigation Medicine Crops to Stay in Midwest Despite Concerns Reuters Health By Randy Fabi Thursday , March 6, 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal government said on Thursday it would not stop U.S. farmers in the Midwest and Plains states from planting new crops engineered to produce medicines despite pleas from environmental groups worried about possible contamination. U.S. food industry groups and environmental activists have expressed concern that without tough safeguards, the new biotech crops could accidentally contaminate corn, soybeans and other crops destined for human and livestock food. In response, the U.S. Agriculture Department proposed new rules requiring farmers and biotech companies, such as Dow Chemical Co. and Monsanto Co., to plant pharmaceutical crops at least one mile from other crops. The USDA also promised to keep a closer eye on the experimental crops, after a Texas company last year was fined for allegedly mishandling its pharmaceutical corn and contaminating nearby crops. ProdiGene Inc., a privately owned biotech firm, agreed to pay about $3 million in fines and costs after USDA found traces of its experimental corn in some Nebraska soybeans. Bobby Acord, administrator for USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, told reporters the changes were made to "make absolutely certain there are no ProdiGenes in the future."

45. PANNA: Coalition To Sue USDA Over Biotech Crops Containing Pharmaceuticals Under these new rules, pharmaceutical corn crops must be planted at leastone mile away from other crops destined for human and livestock food. http://www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20030307.dv.html

Note: This viewer window contains the document you requested. If you can't locate the main PANNA site window, you can open the homepage in this window. Pesticide Action Network Updates Service (PANUPS) See PANUPS updates service , for complete information. Coalition to Sue USDA over Biotech Crops Containing Pharmaceuticals March 7, 2003 A coalition of consumer, environmental and farm organizations took legal action against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to halt the planting of biopharm cropscrops genetically engineered to contain pharmaceuticals or industrial chemicals. The coalition filed a letter notifying the USDA of their intention to file suit in federal court within 60 days. The notice cites the agency's gross violations of law for allowing the field testing of biopharm crops without performing the required environmental safety studies. "The environmental and human health risks associated with biopharm crops are substantial," stated Peter Jenkins, Staff Attorney for the Center for Food Safety. "By allowing these experimental, genetically engineered crops onto U.S. farms without the required impact analysis, USDA is risking permanent contamination of the environment and our food supply." The notice was filed by the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides, Edmonds Institute, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, International Center for Technology Assessment, National Family Farm Coalition, Organic Consumers Association, Pesticide Action Network North America and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The legal action was taken in the wake of recent revelations of biocontamination of food crops in Iowa and Nebraska by corn genetically engineered to manufacture an unknown pharmaceutical or industrial chemical. On November 17, 2002, USDA announced that two biocontamination incidents had occurred in which genetically engineered corn developed by Prodigene, Inc. polluted conventional soybeans and neighboring corn fields.

46. Font Color= FF0000 Size=1 Face=arial,helvetica B OPINION /b Why are miniscule hypothetical dangers to monarch butterflies or people from bioengineeredcorn crops widely reported, while scientific evidence of the safety http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/7047.html

In Defense of Biotechnology OPINION: In Defense of Biotechnology Send this Article Print this Article Talkback Contributed by Duane D. Freese www.osOpinion.com Part of the NewsFactor Network January 29, 2001 Anti-biotech advocates ignore the ever-increasing evidence not only that biotechnology crops and products pose no added risk to either humans or the environment, but that, in fact, they are safer. In This Story: Corn Craziness Agricultural Truth Bigger Benefits Why are miniscule hypothetical dangers to monarch butterflies or people from bioengineered corn crops widely reported, while scientific evidence of the safety of such crops and the dangers posed by the conventional crops they replace are largely ignored? Biotechnology has been on the defensive since a Cornell University laboratory study found that the larvae of monarch butterflies died if they ate massive amounts of pollen from genetically-modified Bt corn. (The Bt stands for Bacillus thuringiensis, a common soil bacterium from which a gene is taken to help make corn resistant to the corn borer.) While even its authors said the study did not represent what happens in the real world, headlines blared that "Engineered Corn Can Kill Monarch Butterflies." European protectionists used the results to curb imports of U.S. bioengineered farm produce. Some environmentalists demanded moratoriums on biotechnology plantings. And protestors at various international conclaves dressed up as butterflies to scare consumers about "Frankenfoods."

47. Organic Growers Warned About Invasive GE Corn While earlier studies have focused on the concern that GE corn crops could directlycontaminate neighboring organic plots, Jemison’s recent findings point to http://www.keepmainefree.org/growerswarned.html

Organic Growers Warned About Invasive GE Corn MAINE TIMES March 14-20, 2002 / VOL. 34 No. 45 / Page 6 Organic growers warned about invasive GE corn - Meg Haskell MAINE TIMES EDITORIAL / Jay Davis, Editor / Page 14 Organic farmers and gardeners in Maine got some unexpected bad news from Extension researchers recently. When university personnel examined corn that was sold as free of genetically engineered ingredients, they found GE kernels in the bag. While most of us wouldn't notice that, any trace of GE material in the produce from an organic farm would jeopardize its certification. - Jay Davis Why? Take Action Co-op Voices Unite! Blue Hill Co-op ... Maine Responds ARTICLES: Corporate Lies: Busting the Myths of Industrial Agriculture GE Salmon Tips on writing letters MAINE CITIZENS SPEAK OUT: GE Food Labeling Now SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT: A Solution in Search of a Problem Organic Growers Warned About Invasive GE Corn Percy vs. Monsanto The Problem with GE Corn ... info@keepmainefree.org

48. Important Information On Biotechnology Association continue to support the Know Where To Go/Know Before You Grow strategywhen it comes to growing and marketing your genetically enhanced corn crops. http://www.iowacorn.org/release_biotech.htm

Home Iowa Corn Promotion Board Iowa Corn Growers Assn' Ethanol ... corninfo@iowacorn.org 5505 NW 88th Street #100 Johnston, Iowa 50131-0781 © 2003 Iowa Corn Know Where To Go Channeling Your Genetically Enhanced Corn The Iowa Corn Growers Association, Iowa Corn Promotion Board and the National Corn Growers Association continue to support the Know Where To Go/Know Before You Grow strategy when it comes to growing and marketing your genetically enhanced corn crops. If you grow hybrids not yet approved for export to the European Union (EU), you are urged to funnel that grain into one of three markets: Feed these hybrids in your own livestock rations. Sell into domestic livestock feeding channels. Sell to elevators accepting grain not yet approved for EU export. To locate a grain handling facility in your area that will accept hybrids not yet approved for export to the EU, visit the American Seed Trade Association’s web site at http://asta.farmprogress.com.

49. Ten Worst Corporations Of 2000 Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman return with their annual list of the worst corporate citizens Category Society Issues Business Allegedly Unethical Firms...... The contamination appears to have occurred through crosspollination of StarLinkand other corn crops, or perhaps because StarLink and other corn crops were http://www.motherjones.com/fotc/fotc33.html

Discuss The Price of Prisons Globalization East Timor ... Advertise Get the MoJournal Weekly email newsletter featuring our latest stories and more. Enter your email to sign up now! Click here for more information about the MoJournal Ten Worst Corporations of 2000 Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman return with their annual list of the worst corporate citizens of the last 12 months, from the makers of StarLink genetically modified corn to the manufacturers of those magically disintegrating Firestone tires. by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Jan. 3, 2001 Related stories: Top 10 Worst Corporations of 1999 Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990s Aventis CropScience This year, rushing to the head of the pack of irresponsible biotech companies was the French corporation Aventis, the maker of Cry9C corn, sold under the name StarLink. ... Tyson outbid Smithfield for IBP , creating an even larger meat megaconglomerate. The Department of Justice has requested further information from Tyson on the proposed merger, probably because the resulting meat megalith gives Tyson unprecedented power to buy meat cheaply from farmers and charge meat retailers higher prices. While wrecking havoc on the farm economy, the big hog companies like IBP are also destroying farm country. The rapid growth of factory farms and the resulting mountains of untreated livestock manure are fouling drinking water supplies and causing a public health risk throughout the United States. North Carolina has put a moratorium on new corporate hog farms after waste fouled rivers.

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51. Gene Pool: Weed Keeps Foreign Corn Elements At Bay - 11/26/2000 - ENN.com Sunday, November 26, 2000 By Terry Devitt. The discovery of a molecularbarrier may ensure the genetic integrity of corn crops. Working http://www.enn.com/enn-news-archive/2000/11/11262000/corn_39457.asp

Site Index: Home News ENN Earthnews Affiliates News In-Depth Topics Interact Online Quizzes Postcards Marketplace Advanced Search Advertise Join ENN e-mail Subscription Take our Survey Affiliate Tech Center Post Press Release Help About ENN Site Map Gene pool: Weed keeps foreign corn elements at bay Sunday, November 26, 2000 By Terry Devitt The discovery of a molecular barrier may ensure the genetic integrity of corn crops. Working with teosinte, a wild cousin of maize, a University of Wisconsin scientist has found a molecular barrier that, bred into modern hybrid corn, is capable of completely locking out foreign genes, including those from genetically modified corn. The discovery is important because it means farmers will have access to a technology that can ensure the genetic integrity of their corn crop, making it easier to export to countries wary of recombinant DNA technology and providing a built-in buffer for potential environmental problems such as the threat to monarch butterflies from corn engineered to make its own biological insecticides. "Governing the flow of genes between populations is what's at stake," says

52. Action AlertStop The EPA's Reapproval/Reregistration Of Bt Corn I am writing to express my opposition to the EPA's reregistration of three. Bt crops Bt corn, cotton, and potatoes. http://www.organicconsumers.org/patent/btactionalert080301.cfm

News Campaigns GE Food Organics ... email this page Take Action! Tell the EPA to End the Registrations of Bt crops Send your comments by August 31, 2001 to: opp-docket@epa.gov The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently determining whether genetically engineered insecticidal crops should continue to be grown in the United States. Because the permits under which the agency first approved insecticidal corn and cotton expire in 2001, EPA must decide in the near future whether or not-or under what conditions-to allow farmers to plant the crops in 2002 and beyond. Genetically Engineered Food Alert urges you to send comments to EPA before August 31, 2001. To date, all commercialized genetically engineered insecticidal plants produce a type of Bt toxin, one of a family of related molecules produced by a soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). To develop what are known as Bt crops, a company clones the insecticidal gene from the bacterium and inserts it into a crop plant. The plant then produces the toxin in most, if not all, parts of the plant through all or most of a growing season.

53. Crop Heat Units For Corn And Other Warm-Season Crops In Ontario OMAFRA crops http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/crops/facts/93-119.htm

Our search engine interface requires a JavaScript enabled browser. If you cannot enable JavaScript in your browser, then you may use an alternate interface found at the following web address - http://www.search.gov.on.ca:8002/compass?view-template=simple1 Agdex#: Publication Date: Order#: Last Reviewed: Title: Crop Heat Units for Corn and Other Warm Season Crops in Ontario Division: Agriculture and Rural History: Replaces Corn Heat Units in Southern Ontario Written by: D.M. Brown and A. Bootsma Table of Contents Introduction Calculating Crop Heat Units Geographic Distribution of Crop Heat Units Method to Calculate CHU's ... Crop Heat Unit Ratings for Hybrids and Varieties Introduction There is a wide selection of hybrids and varieties for most crops. Most of the warm-season crops have a wide range of maturities. Crop Heat Units (CHU) provide an indexing system to assist farmers to select the most suitable hybrids and varieties for their area. This indexing system was originally developed for field corn and has been in used in Ontario for 30 years. The crop heat unit ratings are based on the total accumulated crop heat units (CHU) for the frost-free growing season in each area of the province. This Factsheet describes the CHU available in different regions of the province and how hybrids and varieties of some warm-season crops are rated. Top of Page Calculating Crop Heat Units

54. Cooperative Extension Catalog Of Publications--Field Crops You've reached the Animal Diseases subject category in the Resource Catalog, a reference published by Nebraska Cooperative Extension at the University of Nebraska. G1010. Managing corn and Sorghum Residues During the Ecofarming Fallow Period. 0.25. G1024. Two crops in One Year http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/fieldcrops

Departments/ Units Directories Calendar Search ... International Programs Publications Catalog Catalog Home Page New Publications Search Publications Publications Order Form ... IANR Points of Pride Browse Publications Animal Diseases Animals, General Beef Irrigation Engineering ... Wildlife Management Index: Field Crops CROPPING PRACTICES File Publication Title Cost On-farm Trials for Farmers Using the Randomized Complete Block Design Procedures for Field Demonstrations of Nitrogen Management Practices 2003 Guide for Weed Management in Nebraska Fertilizer Management for Conservation Tillage Precision Agriculture: Soil Sampling for Precision Agriculture Precision Agriculture: Untangling the GPS Data String Plant Population and Spacing Calculator The Effect of Weather on Corn: Preseason Precipitation and Yield of Unirrigated Corn Residue Management for Soil Erosion Control Ecofarming: Spring Row Crop Planting and Weed Control in Winter Wheat Stubble Cross Fences for Pastures Under Center Pivot Irrigation ... Climate Change and Winter Wheat: What Can We Expect in the Future? Insect-resistant Crops Through Genetic Engineering SOYBEANS Nebraska Soybean Variety Tests Managing Deficient Soybean Stands How a Soybean Plant Develops Using Starter Fertilizers for Corn, Grain Sorghum, and Soybeans

55. Kentucky American Seed Information on soybeans, wheat, grasses, corn, specialty crops, legumes, seed treatments and seed conditioning. http://www.kentuckyamerican.com

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56. Plant Disease Central Detailed descriptions of crop diseases commonly occurring in the western corn belt. crops covered include, corn, sorghum, wheat, soybean, dry bean, sugar beet. University of Nebraska Lincoln http://pdc.unl.edu/

Updated: December 6, 2002 Plant Disease Central Jim Stack, UNL Extension Specialist Diseases of: Corn Sorghum Wheat Soybean ... Glossary of Terms PDC Home E-mail PDC Hot Topic Current Archives County Update Surveillance Network Adams Buffalo Clay Fillmore Hamilton Saunders Scotts Bluff SCREC Disease Forecast Current Archives What's New Recent Updates Sugarbeet Cercospora Forecast Field Diagnosis Samples UNL Extension Plant Pathology About This Site This site written by Jim Stack, UNL Extension Plant Pathologist. Web pages created by Adam Sparks, Plant Pathology Research Technician, and Kim Peterson, UNL Communications Coordinator. We welcome your comments and suggestions.

57. Iowa State University s and control of alfalfa and small grains, corn, horticultural crops, ornamentals, turf, and soybeans....... http://www.ag.iastate.edu/departments/plantpath/extpubs.html

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59. NativeTech: Native American History Of Corn ceremonies for seed planting to ensure healthy crops as well as corn testing ceremonies once the crops were harvested. http://www.nativetech.org/cornhusk/cornhusk.html

NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY OF CORN Read about some Uses of Indian Corn Try some Recipes from the Woodland Culture Area Evolution of Maize Agriculture Corn or maize (zea mays) is a domesticated plant of the Americas. Along with many other indigenous plants like beans, squash, melons, tobacco, and roots such as Jerusalem artichoke, European colonists in America quickly adopted maize agriculture from Native Americans. Crops developed by Native Americans quickly spread to other parts of the world as well. Over a period of thousands of years, Native Americans purposefully transformed maize through special cultivation techniques. Maize was developed from a wild grass (Teosinte) originally growing in Central America (southern Mexico) 7,000 years ago. The ancestral kernels of Teosinte looked very different from today's corn. These kernels were small and were not fused together like the kernels on the husked ear of early maize and modern corn. By systematically collecting and cultivating those plants best suited for human consumption, Native Americans encouraged the formation of ears or cobs on early maize. The first ears of maize were only a few inches long and had only eight rows of kernels. Cob length and size of early maize grew over the next several thousand years which gradually increased the yields of each crop. Eventually the productivity of maize cultivation was great enough to make it possible and worthwhile for a family to produce food for the bulk of their diet for an entire year from a small area. Although maize agriculture permitted a family to live in one place for an extended period of time, the commitment to agriculture involved demands on human time and labor and often restricted human mobility. The genetic alterations in teosinte changed its value as a food resource and at the same time affected the human scheduling necessary for its effective procurement.

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