Topic: Rice Farming
Jury: Bayer must pay $1.5M to AK, MS rice farmers
AP News
Missouri federal court jury: Bayer should pay $1.5M to US farmers for contaminated riceA federal court jury has ordered the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5 million to farmers in Arkansas and Mississippi whose rice seed was contaminated with a genetically altered strain. Friday's verdict was ...
Record yield for Louisiana rice in 2009
AP News
Louisiana farmers average 6,300 pounds of rice per acre _ highest in state historyThe U.S. Department of Agriculture says Louisiana rice farmers averaged a record 6,300 pounds of rice per acre last year. It says that's up 470 pounds per acre from 2008, when Hurricanes Ike ...
Rice an unlikely global warming culprit
AFP Global Edition
Asian rice farmers typically do not fly around the world on holidays or own big-engine cars but scientists say they have an important role to play in helping cut the world's output of greenhouse gases. While much of the globe's focus in the climate change fight is on ...
India says no rice imports for now
AFP South Asian Edition
India has scrapped tenders to import rice, saying it has enough stocks to manage despite a harvest shortfall following the worst monsoon in almost four decades. A top-level cabinet committee on food cancelled the three tenders totalling 30,000 tonnes, which would have represented the first imports of the staple ...
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