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Commodities slump for 2nd day on big crude drop
AP Business WriterCommodities fell sharply for a second day Tuesday after another big drop in crude prices suggested that a global economic slowdown is curbing the world's thirst for for energy and raw materials. Gold, silver, copper, corn and most other agriculture...Tags: National Government, Chicago Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, Government, Commodity Markets
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T. Boone Pickens buys water rights in Texas
Tribune staff reporterBattles over water rights for survival and economic growth were dramatically depicted in the films " Chinatown" about Los Angeles and "The Milagro Beanfield War" about the American Southwest. The present-day story unfolding over water's future may...Tags: Personal Finance, Chinatown (Los Angeles, California), Natural Disasters, Texas, Environmental Politics
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USDA opens conservation land for grazing
Associated Press WriterThe federal government will allow livestock to graze on thousands of acres of land set aside for conservation as a part of its response to record flooding in the Midwest. The move, announced late Monday, is a response to what U.S. Department of...Tags: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Floods, Illinois, Natural Disasters
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Farmers in southern Kansas eager to harvest wheat
Associated Press WriterJerry McReynolds usually cuts his own wheat fields. But not this year. After a volatile spring of heavy rains, widespread hail and tornadoes, the Woodston farmer wanted to get his crop cut quickly. "I got some custom cutters to help me finish,"...Tags: Natural Disasters, Kansas, Tom Harkin, Texas, Iowa
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A sweeter road to recovery
Special To The SentinelMarjory Stoneman Douglas, who died 10 years ago, said that the Everglades could not be the River of Grass as long as agriculture blocked their natural flow. She would have offered Charlie Crist's bold plan to buy out U.S. Sugar's vast property holdings...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Human Rights, Charlie Crist, Work Relations, Everglades
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Little Big Econ Forest renamed after agricultural commissioner
Orlando SentinelThe Little Big Econ State Forest in east Seminole County was named after one of its best-known features: the Econlockhatchee River. But as of this month, the park has a new namesake: Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson. State Sen. Carey...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Tribune Company, Natural Resource Industry, Seminole County
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Beekeepers coming to West Virginia for conference
Associated Press WriterThe buzz around Marshall University this week will be about the importance of honeybees. About 300 beekeepers were expected to join 12 vendors and dozens more presenters at the Heartland Apiculture Society's annual conference starting Thursday in...Tags: Diseases, Virginia, Virus Diseases, Consumers, Florida
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Fungus-killed oaks make Basin Complex fire hotter, harder to fight
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirefighters battling to protect Big Sur are working in forests riddled with many thousands of flammable dead oak trees, making the savage Basin Complex fire burn hotter and and travel faster, forest experts said Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of oak...Tags: John Kelly, Fires, Diseases, Colorado, Health and Safety at School
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Focus on elk as disease persists near Yellowstone
Associated Press WriterFederal officials are considering a tentative proposal that calls for capturing or killing infected elk in Yellowstone National Park to eliminate a serious livestock disease carried by animals in the area. Government agencies have killed more than 6,...Tags: Mountains, Medical Research, Government, Idaho, Montana
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Emerald ash borer hunted across Upper Peninsula
The Mining Journal (Marquette)Teri Grout lifted a long metal pole into the trees along state highway 28 on a recent Friday afternoon, a purple corrugated prism dangled at the end. Grout was placing the 2-foot-long trap, or "detection tool," into an ash tree as part of a U.S....Tags: House and Home, Michigan, Ohio, Metal and Mineral, Building Material
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