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All videos listed on this page are interesting news stories from Voice of America (VOA) Special English. Each video includes captions and the complete text for additional English language reading practice.

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English Agriculture News

High Food Prices, Revolutions, and the Future - new
Two of Santa's Reindeer Flee in Texas (Really)
'Property Ladder' Helps Poor Gain Land Rights
Prawns and Tobacco Find a Home Together
UN Says Food Production Must Rise; How 'Fertilizer Trees' Could Help
At Thanksgiving, the Makings of a National Feast
Test Your Word Knowledge With a Quiz About Farm Terms
Seeking a Better Way for African Farmers to Fight a Fever
In the Garden: Growing Beets
Refugees Bring Flavor of Home to Community Farms
Poor Suffer as Food Prices Likely to Stay High
US, EU to Increase Fight Against Illegal Fishing
Issues Slow Recovery of Kenya's Cotton Industry
Experts Defend Way of Life for Herders in East Africa
Grow It Yourself: Turning Bulbs Into Beautiful Blooms
Getting to the Root of How to Water Trees
Experts Link East Africa Drought to La Niña in the Pacific
African Film Shows Tensions Between Banana Growers, Villagers
Hot in the Garden: Too Much Sun Can Be Bad for Vegetables
Gardening: Vegetables Made in the Shade
Ideas for Getting a Firm Grip on Weed Control
Inventor of Weed Eater Started a Revolution
Building a Windbreak to Protect Crops
Putting Worms to Work to Help Your Garden
Grow It Yourself: Onions Are Nothing to Cry About
Groups Press for US Ban on Antibiotics in Healthy Animals
Teaching Rural Farmers With Cell Phone Videos
Trying to Improve Food Safety With a Camera
In the Garden: Getting Started With Roses
An American Cowboy Aims to Help Russia's Beef Herd
Study Links Climate Change to Changes in Crop Yields
In Africa, the Greening of the Sahel
Much of Africa Not Investing Enough in Agricultural Research
Growing Chili Peppers: A Heated Subject
Beauties in the Garden: Growing Ornamental Trees and Bushes
Next Step After Carbon: Knowing Your Nitrogen Footprint
For Japan Farmers, Radiation Fears Mean Economic Pain
Getting to the Bottom of a Fish Die-Off in Southern California
How Women Farmers Could Feed More in Developing World
Food Makers See Crunch Time Against New Maize for Fuel
Long History, Unclear Future for 'Golden Rice'
'Green Super Rice' About Two Years Away for Asia, Africa
Fish Farms May Soon Supply More Than Half the World's Catch
US Lets Farmers Plant Biotech Sugar Beets, With Conditions
Bags Help Farmers Protect Harvests From Air and Insects
Looking to Africa for Ideas About How to Fight Hunger
World Food Prices Expected to Stay High or Keep Rising
New Law in US Aims to Increase Food Safety
An 'Image Problem' for a Food That Could Save African Lives
Archi's Acres Guides Returning Veterans Toward Business Success
The Evergreen Industry in Christmas Plants
Activists Say Fishing Limit Not Enough to Save Bluefin Tuna
US Farm Exports May Set Record in 201
Scientists Recycle Oyster Shells to Aid Chesapeake Bay
Traditional Thanksgiving Meal, With Modern Shortcuts
An African Grain Joins the Gluten-Free Market for People With Celiac
Integrated Pest Management Can Increase Crop Production
Fight to End Rinderpest Is Declared a Success
New Attention Given to Child Cocoa Workers in Ivory Coast and Ghana
Unwrapping the Genetic Secrets of a Chocolate Bar
In the Garden: Growing Your Own Lettuce
US Considers First Genetically Modified Animal for Food
Many Farmers and Gardeners Turn Away From Tilling
World Leaders Urged to Meet Development Goals by 2015
Pretty Flowers Lead Two Scientists to a Discovery
Want Truly Homemade Sweaters? Try Raising Your Own Goats
Russian Housing Plan Threatens Seed Bank
Phone Call About Fertilizer Could Be a Big Help to Philippine Rice Farmers
Slaughterhouses on Wheels Come to the Aid of Small Farms
Got Baboons in Your Crops? Offer Them a Snake Sandwich
Uncooperative Goat Becomes the Mother of an Invention
Growing Trees in the Desert, With the Aid of a 'Waterboxx'
Farming in the City: Joys of Growing Food
In the Garden: Getting the Most Out of Mums
World Food Prize Honors Heads of Two Groups Based in US
Farmers in East Africa Struggle Against Cassava Disease
A Chicken in Every Pot: Finding New Uses for Feathers
A Cotton Plant Kills One Kind of Bug, but Is Blamed for Another
Why Grafting Still Fits Nicely Into Agriculture
In Kenya, Low-Cost Crop Insurance for Small Farmers
VOA Learning English - Agriculture Report # 391
Oil Spill Puts Fisheries, Birds at Risk Along US Gulf Coast
Transgenic Crops Get Good Marks in General in US Study
Study Warns of Dangers to World's Mangrove Forests
In Haiti, a Struggle to Get Crops in the Ground
Deforestation Decreased Over the Past 10 Years
Study Documents Effects of Market Policy Changes on Three West African Countries
West Africans, Free Markets and the '08 Food Crisis
Rise in Food Gardens in US Brings Crop of Questions for Experts
Broccoli and Cauliflower Their Tops Make Good Eating
Want to Grow a Root? Beets Are Hard to Beat
Winter Gives a Hard Chop to Washington's Cherry Trees
Burros Can Do More Than Work Just as Pack Animals
Some Crops Can Help Farmers Prepare for Disasters
Mapping the Way to a Better Soybean
New Understanding of How Plants Use Water
Giving Grasslands a Rest
Keeping Plants and Trees Warm When Temperatures Drop
New Alliance to Study Greenhouse Gases in Agriculture
Circular Thinking: Round Barns on US Farms
How a Hoop House Can Extend the Growing Season
Officials in US Look for Fixes to Carp Problems
An International Treaty Targets Fishing Abuses
Making Better Concrete With Rice?
Earl Cooley: Remembering an Early Smokejumper
Two Efforts Seek to Increase Food Security in Africa
Why Holding Fruit on Trees May Limit Next Year's Crop
Group Works to Expand Supply of Cattle Vaccine in Africa
With Resistant Crops, Progress Can Raise New Problems
Learning the Secrets of the Potato, and an Enemy
Scientists Help Cut the Mystery Behind Pruning
Do-It-Yourself: Pruning Plants (First of Two Parts)
How to Strike Oil (From Seeds, That Is)
Remembering Norman Borlaug
New Findings About Disorder in Bees
Poultry Farms With Unhappy Neighbors? Plant Some Trees
Study Finds More Trees on Farms Than Was Thought
Study Finds Some Ocean Fisheries Are Recovering
Watching Out for 'Wicked Plants'
In Afghanistan, Preparing for a Threat to Wheat Plants
Some Crops (Like Some People) Do Well as Companions
Unbalanced Fertilizer Use, in an Uneven World
VOA Learning English - Agriculture Report # 397
VOA Learning English - Agriculture Report # 396
VOA Learning English - Agriculture Report # 395
VOA Learning English - Agriculture Report # 394
VOA Learning English - Agriculture Report # 393
VOA Learning English - Agriculture Report # 392

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