NAIROBI - Jan 3/06 - IRIN -- An enormous humanitarian crisis is emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga Province, with tens of thousands of people being displaced, but so far the government and the international community are doing little. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jan 6/06 - IRIN -- Meteorologists predict that seasonal rains normally expected in the Horn of Africa in March, may not be enough to end drought and food insecurity, a climate expert with Kenya's meteorological department has warned. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Jan 6/06 - IRIN -- As rain continues to pound southern Malawi, local government officials have appealed for relief assistance, including food aid for people made homeless by flooding. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 6/06 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending December 28 slipped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Jan 9/06 - IRIN -- The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that its assistance to refugees in Zambia is being jeopardized by a lack of funding. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NASHVILLE - Jan 9/06 - AFB -- The future prosperity of American farming and ranching is tied to a worldwide expansion of the middle class, said Ambassador Richard Crowder, the country’s new chief agricultural negotiator, during his address at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 87th annual meeting today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ZANZIBAR - Jan 11/06 - IRIN -- Authorities in Tanzania's semi autonomous island of Zanzibar have prohibited indefinitely the unnecessary use of water, in a move to curb an acute scarcity. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about Alaska 2005 Crop Production Summary . . . Subscribers Only

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A table about U.S. Hay Stocks - Dec 1, 2005 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Jan 12/06 - SNS -- Hops production for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington in 2005 totaled 52.9 million pounds, down 4% from the 2004 crop of 55.2 million pounds and 3% below the 2003 production of 54.6 million pounds, according to the USDA's final crop production report for 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Alfalfa Haylage and Greenchop -- 2005 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Jan 12/06 - SNS -- Growers seeded 3.29 million acres of alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures during 2005, according to the USDA's final crop production report for 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 12/06 - SNS -- Production of dry hay for 2005 is estimated at 151 million tons, down 1% from the October 1 forecast and down 5% from the 2004 total, according to the USDA's final crop production report for 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Objective Ear Count for Corn -- 2005 . . . Subscribers Only

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A table about U.S. All Alfalfa Forage -- 2005 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Jan 12/06 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending January 4 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Jan 13/06 - IRIN -- An outbreak of armyworm threatens Zimbabwe's already fragile agricultural sector and experts warn that a shortage of foreign currency may hamper importation of much-needed pesticides. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Jan 16/06 - IRIN -- Despite encouraging growth in Angola's agricultural production and declining numbers of people in need, food insecurity remains a problem in many parts of the country, says the World Food Programme (WFP). . . . Continue or visitors click here

DAKAR - Jan 16/06 - IRIN -- The UN World Food Program aims to feed 10 million West Africans in 2006 but it needs US $237 million from donors to do so, officials said on Monday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Jan 17/06 - IRIN -- Failed rains in southern Ethiopia have left some 1.75 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI, 19 January (IRIN) - At least 1.7 million people in Somalia are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance following the failure of rains in 2005, the Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned on Thursday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 19/06 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending January 11 dropped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KAMPALA - Jan 20/06 - IRIN -- An estimated 2,000 armed herdsmen from drought-hit parts of southern Sudan have moved into northeastern Uganda in search of pasture and water, Ugandan officials said on Friday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

HANOI - Jan 23/06 - SNS -- Vietnamese media reports scientists at the Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute (CLRRI) used gene modifying technology to create a nutritional rice variety from three existing rice varieties: IR64, MTl250 (indica) and Taipei 309 (japonica). . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Jan 25/06 - SNS -- Unusually heavy grain movement in November could lift tonnage carried by Canada's railways to record levels in the closing quarter of the 2005 calendar, believes Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 26/06 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending January 18 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 31/06 - SNS -- Poultry certified wholesome during December 2005 (ready-to-cook weight) totaled 3.42 billion pounds, up 3% from the amount certified in December 2004, according to the USDA. Updated totals for November 2005 show that 3.47 billion pounds were certified. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Jan 31/06 - SNS -- General refrigerated storage capacity in the United States totaled 3.21 billion gross cubic feet on October 1, 2005, an increase of 2% since the previous survey was conducted two years ago, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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