In 2000, in a supposed effort to curb the spread of canker (aka citrus herpes), a "fruit-blemishing bacterial disease" that was allegedly threatening to destroy Florida's commercial citrus crop, state legislators and the Department of Agriculture waged an epic campaign against private property rights.
Use of this surrogate exposure measure was a reasonable choice because chlorophenoxy herbicides are the predominant herbicides applied to wheat and because other major field crops in these four states, corn and soybeans, are mostly treated with other herbicides, based on information on herbicide use by crop, state, and year, available since 1991 USDA 19911).
Recent downpours that flooded the eastern part of the state came too late to save many crops, state and agriculture officials said.
"There is continued threat to structures, agricultural crops, state parks, and critical infrastructure including: communication sites [and] power lines.
Rather than using development aid to diversify crops, state-led production intensified coffee and cotton cultivation, rendering the economy vulnerable to fluctuating world market prices, displacing greater numbers of peasants from their lands, and increasing unemployment rates by replacing human labor with machinery.
The progress of the crop, the state of the fields, the readiness of workers and machines, are all minutely watched and, where necessary, sharply criticised by government officials in the state-run press.
(AP) ALBANY: AVERAGE APPLE CROP The state yesterday confirmed the estimate of New York apple growers that their harvest this year would be considerably lower than last year's because of weather damage.
Wendy Brannen, executive director of the Vidalia Onion Committee, which handles marketing and research on behalf of growers and packers of Vidalia onions, said that more than protecting the crop, "the State of Georgia worked hard to build the Vidalia brand".
In keeping with the recent meteoric career of Eliot Spitzer (he was scratched from the team when he recently sustained a career-ending groin injury), we have a whole crop of state attorney generals who want to be featured as the star player in the evening papers and on the late-night videotape.
Even China's 800 million ostensibly independent farmers grow crops on state-owned land and sell grain to state-owned grain companies.
Muḥammad was the first ruler to introduce rotation of crops, establish state farms, and tend cultivation and improve artificial irrigation by establishing a department of agriculture.
