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The Associated Press HONG KONG — Hong Kong health authorities are slaughtering more than 17,000 chickens at a market after a chicken carcass there was found to be infected with bird flu. Officials in the southern Chinese city said Dec. 20 that the bird tested positive for the dangerous H5N1 strain of avian influenza....
INDIANAPOLIS — The National FFA Foundation has announces it raised a record $16 million through corporate and private financial contributions to support FFA in 2011. This follows a recent announcement by the National FFA Organization of a new record membership of 540,379 students thanks to more than 17,000 students in the U.S., Puerto Rico...
WASHINGTON — The second annual Beginning Farmer and Rancher Conference will take place Feb. 18-20, 2012, in Grand Rapids, Mich., at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel & DeVos Place Convention Center. The conference is presented by the American Farm Bureau Federation and Start2Farm.gov. Beginning farmers and ranchers interested in all types of agriculture are...
WASHINGTON — USDA has awarded 17 grants to improve the safety of the food supply in the U.S. through research, education and Extension. USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded the grants, totaling $10.4 million, to universities in 13 states to help address a broad spectrum of food safety issues. “With millions...
By Cyndie Sirekis Special to Poultry Times WASHINGTON — Boy Scouts in Indiana will have more opportunities than ever before to earn agriculture-related merit badges in 2012, thanks to members of Farm Bureau in Indiana who are responding to a shortage of volunteers. Farm Bureau members are training to become registered merit badge counselors...
By Ann Perry Special to Poultry Times WASHINGTON — Three USDA scientists have been named to the Agricultural Research Service Science Hall of Fame for their discoveries that streamlined and maximized irrigation management, identified and characterized key parasites infecting the water and food supply, and enhanced the environmental sustainability of agricultural production in the...
