By Jerilyn Watson 2009-12-28 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A round barn in Illinois American farmers traditionally keep their animals and equipment in barns that are rectangular. But there are hundreds of barns in the Midwest an...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-12-21 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Today we discuss the greenhouse effect. Farmers and gardeners have long used greenhouses to extend the growing season in cold weather. Now, hoop houses are gaining popul...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-12-14 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Last week our subject was illegal fishing. Now we report on two cases where fish are both the victims and the offenders. The first involves two kinds of Asian carp, bigh...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-12-7 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some pirates catch fish instead of ships. The problem is known as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Such fishing harms the productivity of fisheries, and hurts...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-11-30 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Rice hulls, or husks, are the protective coverings on grains of rice. Rice with just its hull removed is brown rice. Rice without its hull or bran is white rice. Once ri...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-11-23 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Years ago, a young forester took an unusual new job. Earl Cooley became one of the first smokejumpers. Smokejumpers parachute from airplanes. They fight fires that crews...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-11-16 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa. In the project, the United Nations agency works wit...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-10-19 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Scientists now have a genetic map of the potato. The project is the work of a team from fourteen countries, the Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium. Potatoes are one of...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-10-12 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. We talked last week about when and how to prune plants. Today we tell you about some new understanding of why cutting the main branch of a plant or tree can lead to bett...
By Jerilyn Watson 2009-10-5 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Pruning makes no sense. You cut off parts of a plant. Yet the plant is supposed to grow back even better than before? This demands an answer. The explanation begins with...
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