Inspectors are collecting soil, water and produce samples, reviewing export logs and combing packing plants in three major tomato-growing states in Mexico.
U.C. Davis engineering professor Andy Frank has been working on the technology to convert everyday cars into vehicles that can go dozens of miles before using a single drop of gasoline.
For two decades, prices were relatively stable, but then they rose seven-fold from a trough below $20 in 2001. Since breaching the $100 mark on the first trading day of this year they have risen around 45 per cent.
AUSTIN — Thousands of inaccurate gas pumps each year give Texas motorists more or less fuel than the amount for which they pay. Also Online Gas Price Survival Tools: Your guide to cheaper gas, smarter driving and alternative methods A
While most of the attention on the new farm bill was based on President Bush's veto and Congress' eventual override, the item of most interest to Iowa farmers in the long run is likely to be the new revenue program
DES MOINES (AP) --- An international program that helps feed children throughout the world has landed two former U.S. senators and presidential candidates the 2008 World Food Prize.
COLLINS --- While consumers debate whether ethanol and high grain prices are forcing food prices higher, Dave Struthers is stuck debating a more-basic point --- whether high grain prices and high farm input prices are making farming profitable.
