FARGO - Mar 2/05 - SNS -- A request by North Dakota to allow its lentil producers use the fungicides LSP flowable fungicide and Mertect 340-F as a seed treatment for control of Ascochyta blight was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. . . . Continue or visitors click here

AUSTIN - Mar 3/05 - SNS -- Asian rust, aphids and weed control are the top three concerns of soybean growers who participated in a survey sponsored by UPI, a manufacturer and marketer of post-patent crop protection solutions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 3/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in California and New York as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 3/05 - SNS -- Australian farmers are sympathetic with the income woes of Canadian farmers, but they remind their northern hemisphere counterparts both rely on international markets for incomes and subsidies never provide a long term solution to marketing problems. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CALGARY - Mar 4/05 - SNS -- Western Canada's farm equipment dealers want the federal government to offer competitive Capital Cost Allowances (CCA) in the tax system which are more competitive with those available to U.S. farmers and industry. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Mar 7/05 - SNS -- Canadian farmers received less for what they produced in December than was the case one year earlier, though average prices were slightly better than during November, according to Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BOZEMAN - Mar 7/05 - SNS -- Field pea growers in Montana face major problems from weeds, warns Montana State University agronomists. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Mar 7/05 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will allow growers to obtain Early Payment Option (EPO) contracts for wheat, durum and selected barley which has already been delivered to the board during the 2004-05 marketing year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 10/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated 15 counties in New York as primary disaster areas due to rain, flooding, hail, winds, lightning and low temperatures that occurred on various dates from May 1, 2004, through the end of the 2004 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 10/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Texas and Wyoming as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 11/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Tennessee, Montana and New York as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Mar 11/05 - MFB -- More than 350 farmers from across the state met in East Lansing on Thursday eager to learn how they can protect the environment while remaining economically viable at the same time. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Mar 13/05 - SNS -- Growers in Western Australia who grow the new oat variety Possum need to realize this milling oat is not yet approved for that purpose in that state and growers may only be able to sell their crops to feed markets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

COLUMBIA - Mar 14/05 - SNS -- Ryegrass is an ongoing problem in no-till corn fields,, notes Andy Kendig, Extension weed specialist at Missouri University's Delta Research Center in Portageville, Mo. . . . Continue or visitors click here

GREENSBORO - Mar 15/05 - SNS -- Quilt fungicide has been registered in the United States for use on wheat, barley, triticale and grasses grown for seed for the control of rusts, Septoria, powdery mildew and tan spot. State registrations are pending. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 16/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Arkansas and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 18/05 - SNS –– The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of five new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include cotton and potato. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 18/05 - MFB -- Farmers across the nation now have until the end of April to provide comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on a proposed consent agreement which would allow interested farmers to pay a "minimal penalty" and then be enrolled into a two-year, on-farm study of air emissions from their operations. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 22/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Texas and Maine as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LINCOLN - Mar 23/05 - SNS -- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Monsanto Co. will work together to develop crops tolerant to the broadleaf herbicide dicamba under an exclusive licensing agreement. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 24/05 - SNS -- USDA plant breeders have developed a variety of barley which can resist attacks from both types of Russian wheat aphids found in the United States. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 24/05 - SNS -- Several counties in Nevada, Tennessee and Texas were designated as primary agricultural disaster areas by the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Mar 24/05 - SNS -- Agriculture Canada is giving CDN $5.136 million under the Renewal element of the Agricultural Policy Framework (APF) to the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) to increase and expand the association's services toCanadian farmers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Mar 24/05 - MFB -- Michigan farmers who recently returned from a 10-day agricultural study tour of eastern Australia say the globetrotting left them with a deeper appreciation of U.S. farm programs that keep food affordable for Americans and a keener awareness of the dangers that occur when agricultural water use is subjected to government restrictions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 28/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Massachusetts, Oregon and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Mar 29/05 - SNS -- The Canadian government will provide Canadian farmers with a CDN $1 billion subsidy payout to offset the impact of "record low farm incomes", according to the announcement by Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Andy Mitchell. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 29/05 - SNS -- USDA Researchers have found feeding high moisture corn instead of dry-rolled corn is one of several strategies which can be used to reduce cattle manure odors. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 29/05 - SNS -- The USDA issued certificates of protection to developers of nine new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include bentgrass, bermudagrass, bluegrass, corn, pumpkin, rice and wheat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Mar 29/05 - SNS -- Researchers at the Prairie Swine Center in Saskatoon have had success increasing the amount of phosphorus digested by hogs by adding phytase enzyme to rations. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 29/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated numerous counties in Connecticut, Ohio, Texas and Utah as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/05 - SNS -- The preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers in March rose four points from February to a preliminary estimate of 118, based on 1990-92=100, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 30/05 - SNS -- There was no change in the cost of farming in the United States in March, with the USDA leaving the March Index of Prices Paid for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW) at 135% of the 1990-92 average. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Mar 30/05 - SNS -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a quarantine exemption so North Dakota soybean growers can use Domark 230 ME Fungicide for control of Asian soybean rust. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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