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...Montana state senate. But in April, in the midst of a hot primary race, Tester took five days off from the campaign to seed his 1,800-acre farm in the eastern Montana flatlands. "Look, I do the things real people do. I plow, I seed, I harvest. I do some of my best thinking on my tractor," Tester told me as he campaigned in Whitefish, Mont., last week...
...farmers of western Niger normally spend the first few months of every year filling their mud-brick storage bins with grain. But last November's harvest was a bad one, and many of the bins this year are only half-filled or empty. "It's not normal," says Amadou Salou, a farmer in the town of Male Haoussa, a few hours' drive north of the capital, Niamey. Sheltering under a tree from the scorching mid-day sun with other village elders, Salou sets out the equation. "We have too many mouths to feed and not enough food," he says. Despite...
...preliminary SCNT experiments on malignant blood diseases for the past two months.CUSTOM-TAILORED CELLSIn SCNT, the nucleus of a fully differentiated cell is inserted into a de-nucleated egg and developed into blastocysts, which can be used to create stem cell lines.Melton and Eggan will be using skin cells harvested from diabetes patients. The long-term goals of the research will be both academic and clinical, the researchers said.By creating stem cell lines using cells from patients with diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and sickle-cell anemia, researchers can “move those patients?...
...grim camps or return to their rural homes. Recently, troops have swept rural areas, ostensibly to help boost agricultural productivity by growing food on idle farms. In reality, though, human-rights advocates say the army has begun seizing food from peasant farmers, raising fears that this year's harvest will be confiscated to feed soldiers and tighten control over rural opposition strongholds. "All basic foods are now under direct military control," says Eddie Cross, an economist and adviser to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The latest exercise - dubbed Operation Taguta/ Sisuthi or "eat well" - has been disastrous, according...
Katrina hit just as the farm belt was gearing up for the fall harvest, and exporters may be forced to find ways around the blocked shipping channels in the lower Mississippi--a critical conduit for agricultural products. The U.S. exports about $600 billion in cargo through ports that were hit by the hurricane, and some 2,000-ton barges are literally stuck in the mud, says Larry Daily, president of Alter Barge Lines. "It's like you've clogged the pipeline for a week." Archer Daniels Midland, a major grain exporter, operates four grain terminals in Louisiana. Several hundred...