15 March 2010 The Grow It Eat It Web site, growit.umd.edu, gives gardening advice, including how to build a salad box This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Call it recession gardening or a product of the local foods movement. But, whate...

08 March 2010 Broccoli and Cauliflower are among the most nutritious vegetables This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some people say broccoli looks like small trees, and cauliflower like gathered clouds. They think broccoli is only gre...

Dana Demange 01 March 2010 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. People might think that beets are always dark red. But this tasty root vegetable also comes in other colors. There are pink, yellow and white beets, and beets with circles...

By Jerilyn Watson 2010-2-22 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Official snowfall records for Washington date back to eighteen eighty-four. By early February, this winter had already broken them with one hundred forty-two centimeters...

By Jerilyn Watson 2010-2-8 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Farmers may not be able to prevent natural disasters, but they can at least try their best to reduce losses. For example, they can plant crops that are more likely to surv...

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Soybeans are eaten by people and fed to animals. Some farmers grow them to replace lost nitrogen in the soil. Soybeans were first grown in Asia thousands of years ago. Now scientists have a full gen...

By Brianna Blake 2010-1-25 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists have discovered more details about how plants use water. Their findings could help to engineer plants that grow better and more effectively in conditions with h...

By Jerilyn Watson 2010-1-18 his is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Grasslands need time to rest when cattle and other animals feed on them. Moving animals from one area of pasture to another can provide the time needed for new growth. Thi...

By Jerilyn Watson 2010-1-11 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Florida, in the southeastern United States, is called the Sunshine State. It grows more oranges than anyplace except Brazil. But Arctic air has damaged some Florida orang...

By Jerilyn Watson 2010-1-4 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Experts say that agriculture provides fourteen percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions each year. The gases released include carbon dioxide, a major cause of globa...