WASHINGTON - Aug 2/04 - SNS -- The first shipment of Russian grain delivered through the World Food Program arrived in North Korea over the weekend. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 4/04 - SNS -- The USDA will accept applications through the end of August for the fiscal 2005 Bioenergy Program, which aims to stimulate industrial consumption of agricultural commodities by promoting their use in bioenergy production. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Aug 5/04 - SNS -- Freer trade in agricultural commodities is making it easier for insect pests to migrate from one country or continent to another, warns Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Aug 5/04 - SNS -- The World Food Program issued an emergency appeal for US$82 million for immediate food assistance to 2.3 million people affected by drought in Kenya. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Aug 10/04 - SNS -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is appealing for $3.6 million to fund four emergency agriculture projects to assist rural families threatened by hunger in Kenya. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MBABANE - Aug 10/04 - IRIN -- By next year over a quarter of Swaziland's 970,000 population will again require food aid to survive, according to a joint report released by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and World Food Program (WFP). . . . Continue or visitors click here

SOFIA - Aug 10/04 - SNS -- Sunflower production in Bulgaria is expected to drop from last year's record 720,000 metric ton (MT) harvest to around 620,000 MT as seeded area returns to a more normal level. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 12/04 - SNS -- Alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures production is forecast at 77.3 million tons, up 1% from last year, according to the August crop production estimates released by the USDA today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 12/04 - SNS -- Production of hay other than alfalfa in the United States is forecast at 84.5 million tons, up 5% from 2003, reports the USDA in its latest crop estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA Crop Production Summary -- August 2004 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Aug 12/04 - SNS -- Hop production in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington is forecast at 55.5 million pounds for 2004, up 2% from last year but 5% less than the 2002 crop, according to the USDA's latest crop estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA Domestic Poultry Meat Situation -- August 2004 . . . Subscribers Only

NAIROBI - Aug 17/04 - IRIN -- The number of Ethiopians in need of food aid has risen to more than 7.6 million as a result of crop failure and lack of pasture following poor or erratic long rains earlier this year, the country's disaster prevention commission said. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 19/04 - SNS -- International trading activity in agricultural commodities picked up pace to open the last half of the week, with sales of soybeans and barley dominating overnight news. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Aug 24/04 - IRIN -- Ethiopia's south-central Oromiya region is threatened with rising malnutrition levels, hunger, disease and water shortages as a result of inadequate and erratic rainfall, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW YORK - Aug 31/04 - SNS -- The Byrd Amendment has been declared illegal by the World Trade Organization, clearing the way for Brazil, Canada, Chile, the European Communities, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico to impose retaliatory duties on U.S. goods. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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