The Omaheke Region's communal farming community and livestock buyers have agreed that livestock purchasers continue to buy animals at auctions under new auctioneers, Hammer and Tongue.

Malawi's tobacco industry has been in turmoil after wildly fluctuating prices led protesting farmers to force the closure of the auction floors.

Cyclone Nargis, a category-3 tropical storm, struck the low-lying and heavily populated Burmese coastline on May 2nd with winds of 132 miles per hour. The storm had sufficient strength to propagate a 12 foot tall sea wave (storm surge) that

Analysts from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service in Washington and the office of the U.S. agricultural attaché in Kiev conducted April crop-assessment travel in central, eastern, and southern Ukraine to assess 2008/09 crop production prospects and related issues. The team

WAPELLO — Nestled between two flooded rivers, the Iowa and Mississippi, conditions were ideal for Warren Kemper to start planting on May 1.

DAYTON --- A.J. Blair is in a good mood today. "I think we're behind where we normally would be, but we're doing better than most people this spring," Blair says.

Gave him back to the dirt from which he came. Earlier his family and neighbors walk by, Looking at memories of a simple man's life. A table of photos, toy tractors and cards, Telling the story of life on the

ALBIA --- Paul Belzer has seen farmers being busy this spring.

It's one thing to hear Northeast Iowa farmer Mark Mueller talk about the saturated conditions that are idling planters in much of the state when fields should be bustling.

WEST BRANCH --- John Black called planting progress and conditions "barely fit."

future with community colleges By Gene Lucht, Iowa Farmer Today IOWA FALLS --- For Scott Tapper and others at the Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA), it was an easy decision to support a swine program at Ellsworth Community College here.

POSTVILLE --- Immigration officials raided the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville on Monday, arresting as many as 300 people.

IOWA FALLS — Students shove their chairs back and eagerly follow their teacher, Bruce Moore, out of the classroom and into the adjacent shop.

TROY MILLS --- Tom Murray laughs when he hears the old joke that says ag education is only about cows, sows and plows.

MILTON --- Brad Klodt realized that to infuse some youth into his cow herd, he would have to learn to deal with heifers.

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, has ordered immediate commencement of execution of the first phase of multi-billion Naira Zauro Polder Irrigation Project in Kebbi State, as part of long time solution to the current global food crisis.

The Fertiliser Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN) has commended the Federal Government for the procurement and distribution of fertiliser for the 2008 farming season.

TWO of the companies in the Private Investor portfolio have been in the media spotlight recently. At Afrox's annual general meeting last Friday, MD Tjaart Kruger gave an update on the company's operations and plans.

In order to stem the effects of the current national food crisis occasioned by the sharp increase in the price of rice, Governor Liyel Imoke has said he has decided to go into rice farming to complement government's efforts.

FRANCHISE group Simply Asia said last week it aimed to have a national presence by 2010, with outlets in all of the major shopping centres, and will grow its footprint by 12 stores this year.