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...World Food Program recently signed an agreement with the Zambian government to provide thousands of tons of wheat to the starving citizens of Zambia. Controversy over the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops into the Zambian agricultural sector had previously delayed the distribution of GM food aid to drought-stricken Zambia. The Zambian government’s first priority must be to preserve its citizens’ lives by distributing food to combat the African nation’s growing famine. In spite of concerns that GM food aid may harm the Zambian agricultural economy in the future...
...solution is clear: Immediate distribution of non-GM grains like wheat and rapid milling of GM corn, to be shipped directly to the Zambian people. But major U.S. grain companies have been actively lobbying to use only non-milled GM crops for aid in an attempt to corner the African grain market. If GM crops contaminate Zambia, it will neither be able to sell excess crops to the European Union nor continue to grow GM grain without buying further shipments of seed grain from America...
...Start with your choice of grains depending on the flavor of beer desired. You can try malted barley, wheat, corn or rice...
John Jones, 48, harvested less than half his usual haul of wheat this year. His millet, a grain used in birdseed, hasn't even germinated. The field is an expanse of naked earth surrounded by burned-out pastures. "In June it looked like September, and it's just getting worse," Jones says...
...summer's record heat wave. Deadman's Basin, one of the river's three storage reservoirs, yielded a piddling 10,000 acre-ft. of water this year, compared with an average of 48,940 acre-ft. Due in large part to the lack of water, the state's winter wheat harvest was the smallest since the Dust Bow l year of 1937-42% of the wheat planted in the fall was abandoned, and the outlook for the spring harvest is dreary...