Politics 101.
Did you ever wonder why the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) isn't doing everything it can to prevent mad cow disease? Or why it refuses to encourage farmers to find ways to produce meat and dairy products with less Memo from MFJ saturated fat? Or why leaders at the...

Past and future milestones in the genetic improvement of alfalfa, "The Queen of Forages".
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) was the first introduced to the New World by immigrants as a quality food source for their livestock. Since its introduction alfalfa has become the number one forage legume in North America and worthy of its title of "The Queen of Forages" As the...

Corn-livestock center going up in Mindanao; Part of P70-B food security dev't program.
The Estrada administration has intensified its efforts at increasing corn production in Mindanao by establishing a modern corn and livestock facilities center in Misamis Oriental. To be built at a cost of P22.5 million, the center is part of the P70-billion Mindanao Development Plan. Secretary...

Tough cowboy puts his skills to use as hotel's ranch manager. (Faces In The Crowd).
Most people would be distraught if a job they were promised fell through at the last minute. Especially if they were about to move across the country because of it. But not "Gruff" Herrman. This philosophical Virginia cowboy packed up and moved to New Mexico anyway. "I...

SKS replicates the Grameen Bank model.
Byline: Manika Gupta Akula received the Social Entrepreneur Award at the recent WEF recently at New Delhi.. Eradicating 10 per cent of India's poverty is what Vikaram Akula has set as his goal. If his company could help Siddama of Raipally village in Andhra Pradesh...

A $50-billion biz for microfinance, a ray of hope for millions.
Byline: Manika Gupta Eradicating 10% of India's poverty is what Vikram Akula has set as his goal. If his company could help Siddama of Raipally village in Andhra Pradesh escape the below-the-poverty-line tag, it could hold good for millions of other Indians as well. Akula...

Genetic and environmental trends for milk production traits in sheep estimated with test-day model.
ABSTRACT : Data from milk performance testing were used to analyze genetic and environmental trends for purebred Tsigai, Improved Valachian and Lacaune sheep. 103,715 (Tsigai), 212,962 (Improved Valachian) and 2,196 (Lacaune) test-day records gathered by the State Breeding Institute of the Slovak Republic entered the analyses. The respective pedigree...

El paisaje cultural como elemento de patrimonializacion: el caso de Vega de Pas, Cantabria, España.
Resumen:" El presente artículo esboza algunos de los cambios histórico-sociales más importantes sufridos por la cultura pasiega (Vega de Pas), sobre todo a partir de la aplicación de las políticas económicas europeas que provocaron el declive y la pérdida de centralidad del trabajo ganadero. Con dichas políticas se pretende...

Microbix Announces Fiscal 2006 Results: Year Highlighted By Sales Growth, Product And Infrastructure Investment, And Independent Confirmation Of Its Flu Vaccine Technology.
TORONTO, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microbix Biosystems Inc. (MBX:TSX) today announced financial results for the year ended September 30, 2006. Microbix announced previously that 2006 would be a transition year as management continues to seek partnering opportunities for the Urokinase and Vaccine technologies. Significant investment was made...

Orchid Awarded Major Scrapie Genotyping Project by U.K. Government.
PRINCETON, N.J. and ABINGDON, England, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Orchid BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: ORCH) today announced that its U.K.-based Cellmark Diagnostics business has been awarded a major contract by the U.K. Government to provide genotyping services designed to help British farmers breed sheep with reduced susceptibility to...