WASHINGTON - Jul 6/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 13 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Jul 7/04 - SNS -- The intensity of blackleg outbreaks in Australia could be more severe this year, judging from results of recent surveys by the Department of Agriculture in the state of Western Australia. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Jul 7/04 - SNS -- Despite a decrease in cash flow in 2003, Canadian farmers finished the year with an increase in equity, according to data on the financial health of the agriculture sector released by Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 7/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 13 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include wheat and cotton. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 8/04 - SNS -- USDA researchers believe a water treatment residue will make a good soil treatment and will help prevent phosphorus runoff from farms. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Jul 8/04 - SNS -- Two new wheat varieties have been certified for use in Australia, one for northern cropping regions and one for southern areas, following a meeting of the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) National Pool Variety Classification Panel. . . . Continue or visitors click here

GUELPH - Jul 9/04 - SNS -- Ontario farmers have cut pesticide use 52% since 1983, according to the latest survey of onfarm chemical use by the provincial agriculture department. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Jul 14/04 - SNS -- The Australian barley marketing board, ABB Grain Ltd is making a second distribution to growers who delivered grain to the company’s 2003-04 barley pools. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 14/04 - SNS -- USDA plant breeders believe much improved soybean cultivars will come from three new germplasm lines developed by Agricultural Research Service scientists and cooperators. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Jul 15/04 - SNS -- The latest marketing effort by companies which produce and sell certified planting seed has taken on an unusually harsh tact, with the industry accusing farmers who do not use their products of threatening the future of Canadian agriculture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 15/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated three counties in Massachusetts as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW DELHI - Jul 16/04 - SNS -- Indian farmers receive the largest share of the dollar paid by consumers for food grains and oilseeds and the lowest for fresh fruits and vegetables, according to a recent study of income distribution by the Directorate of Marketing & Inspection, Faridabad, an attached office of the Ministry of Agriculture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jun 23/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 12 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include bluegrass, fescue, flax, and soybean. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Jul 26/04 - SNS -- Grower prices for agricultural commodities improved in May, but remain mostly below year earlier levels, according to preliminary Farm Product Price Index (FPPI) calculations for the month by Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 26/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 16 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include bluegrass, corn, fescue and ryegrass. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 28/04 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of 15 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include corn and cotton. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 28/094 - SNS -- USDA Researchers have found feeding phytase to swine, combined with adding aluminum chloride to their manure, can cut phosphorus pollution of water by as much as 70%. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 30/04 - SNS -- The USDA has designated Wilson County in Texas as a primary agricultural disaster area due to losses caused by excessive rain and high winds that occurred on May 13, 2004. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA Estimated Field Crop Prices Received July, 2004 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Jul 30/04 - SNS -- Average returns from the sale of primary agricultural commodities declined in the United States in July, judging from the preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers developed by the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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