WASHINGTON - Jul 1/05 - SNS -- Interest rates charged on commodity loans disbursed prior to 1995 by the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) will be 3.375% during July, unchanged June 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 1/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

HALIFAX - Jul 6/05 - SNS -- Farmers markets are a boost to local economies and help producers expand their market and cropping options, suggests a recent survey customers and sellers in Nova Scotia. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Jul 7/05 - SNS -- Insurance companies operating in Saskatchewan report a significant increase in the number of claims for hail damage over the July long weekend. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Jul 7/05 - SNS -- The Manitoba Pulse Growers Association appealed directly to Canada's federal agriculture minister for disaster relief for farmers in southern and central Manitoba on account of widespread flooding so far this year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BISMARCK – Jul 8/05 - SNS -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted a specific exemption for Quadris® Flowable Fungicide to control Alternaria leaf spot (Alternaria carthami and Alternaria alternata) on safflower s grown in North Dakota. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Jul 11/05 - SNS -- Farmers should scout fields for signs of herbicide resistance in weeds and failure after spraying their fields, cautions Saskatchewan's Provincial Weed Control Specialist Clark Brenzil. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LEXINGTON - Jul 14/05 - SNS -- Computer-based courses on agroterrorism have been developed by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), part of the University of Kentucky College of Public Health. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 15/05 - SNS -- The cost of farming juimped 5.1% in the United States in 2004, with total expenditures reaching $210.7 billion, up from the revised 2003 total of $200.5 billion, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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SASKATOON - Jul 22/05 - SNS -- Saskatchewan's Agricultural Hall of Fame (SAHF) will induct six individuals on July 31: Carl Vissing Block, Abigail DeLury, Glendon William Hass, Neil Jahnke, Henry Martynse and John Carman Willmott. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 22/05 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of twenty-five new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include bluegrass, celery, cotton, lettuce, peanut, ryegrass, and soybean. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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REGINA - Jul 25/05 - SNS -- Agricultural producers in Saskatchewan should use wet years to prepare fields for dry ones, cautions Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Rangeland and Forage Agrologist Dale Weisbrot. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW YORK - Jul 26/05 - SNS -- Monsanto and the University of Georgia are looking into a probable case of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth (Palmer pigweed) at specific sites in central Georgia. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 27/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Texas, California and Minnesota as primary agricultural disaster areas, making certain farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers in the counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON 0 Jul 28/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated numerous counties in Illinois as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 29/05 - SNS -- The preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers in July, at 119, based on 1990-92=100, decreased 1 point (0.8%) from June, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jul 29/05 - SNS -- The July Index of Prices Paid for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW) is 140% of the 1990-92 average, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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