News About Farming On Earth and in Space 02-JUL-08 en-us Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 02, 2008 - Cutting-edge wool textile technology developed by CSIRO for industrial air filtration systems has found its first lucrative commercial application in the manufacture of respirators for the personal protective equipment (PPE) market.]]> ]]> Beijing (AFP) July 1, 2008 - China's devastating earthquake has left nearly two million people without a means to make a living, state press said on Tuesday.]]> Washington (AFP) July 1, 2008 - Giving one million dairy cows a growth hormone makes them produce more milk would cut greenhouse gas emissions equal to taking 400,000 cars off the road, a US study found.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Jul 02, 2008 - The ancestors of maize originally grew wild in Mexico and were radically different from the plant that is now one of the most important crops in the world. While the evidence is clear that maize was first domesticated in Mexico, the time and location of the earliest domestication and dispersal events are still in dispute.]]> ]]> Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 02, 2008 - CSIRO scientists have moved a step closer to developing a novel DNA test which has the potential to revolutionise management of one of the biggest threats to sheep health in Australia, the barber's pole worm.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2008 - When tomatoes ripen in our gardens, we watch them turn gradually from hard, green globules to brightly colored, aromatic, and tasty fruits. This familiar and seemingly commonplace transformation masks a seething mass of components interacting in a well-regulated albeit highly complex manner.]]> Manila (AFP) June 30, 2008 - About three percent of this year's projected Philippines farm output worth five billion pesos (111 million dollars) has been lost to Typhoon Fengshen, Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said Monday.]]> ]]> Rome (AFP) June 30, 2008 - Last month's earthquake in Sichuan caused some six billion dollars (3.8 billion euros) in damage to agriculture in the southern Chinese province, the UN food agency said Monday.]]> Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 01, 2008 - CSIRO has released a national overview of climate change impacts and adaptation options for Australian agriculture.]]> Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2008 - The lower house of the Kazakh parliament has approved in its first reading a bill to introduce a state monopoly on caviar production and sales, the parliamentary press service said on Wednesday.]]> ]]> ]]> United Nations (AFP) June 26, 2008 - UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would press Group of Eight (G8) leaders at their summit in Japan next month to tackle the world food crisis, climate change and the flagging fight against global poverty.]]> Townsville, Australia (SPX) Jun 26, 2008 - No-take marine reserves, in which fishing is completely banned, can lead to very rapid comebacks of the fish species most prized by commercial and recreational fisheries, reveals a new study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef published in the June 24th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.]]> Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Jun 26, 2008 - Pigs raised in conventional indoor pens have different feeding patterns from those raised under more natural conditions. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica shows that while pigs in the wild spend much time searching for food and eat little and often, the preferred feeding regime for conventional raised pigs is three meals a day.]]> Advertise in Terra Daily and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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