usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Email Cane sugar puts the sweet pleasure in specialty soda pops By ED MURRIETA McClatchy Newspapers Article Last Updated:05/16/2007 01:50:35 AM PDT When it comes to sweetening fizzy soda, there's nothing fuzzy about the flavor of pure cane sugar. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Email Cane sugar puts the sweet pleasure in specialty soda pops By ED MURRIETA McClatchy Newspapers Article Last Updated:05/16/2007 01:50:35 AM PDT...

When it was delivered, it did not look like five cubic feet. If it is Ambrosia beetles, once the tree is infested with more than 10 to 20 beetles, there is nothing you can do to kill the fungus. Gretchen Pettis of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, if Ambrosia beetles have hit trees in your area before, spray the trunks and branches of your trees with pyrethroid insecticides such as permethrin or cyfluthrin. I contacted the company and they brought...

Kansas State University soil scientist Chuck Rice thinks farms offer the "win-win" way to start mitigating the atmosphere's overload of carbon dioxide. By using no-till methods, where farmers plant seed without plowing up fields, farms could keep carbon from escaping as soils are turned over. Using perennial grasses as a source for bio-fuels, rather than planting corn or sorghum on an annual basis, could also reduce carbon emissions, he said. Companies that emit large amounts of CO2 could...

By Helen Altonn haltonn@starbulletin.com Hawaii will be "the canary" that alerts the rest of the world to the damaging effects of climate changes, says Andrew Hashimoto, dean and director of the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. By Helen Altonn haltonn@starbulletin.com Hawaii will be "the canary" that alerts the rest of the world to the damaging effects of climate changes, says Andrew Hashimoto, dean and director of the University of Hawaii College...

Dairy farmers have failed to keep pace with a 3 percent increase in annual milk consumption, according to Rabobank Groep in the Netherlands, the world's biggest agricultural lender. candy maker, and Dean Foods co., parent of Reiter Dairy of Akron and the nation's largest milk processor, said this month that higher dairy costs will hinder profit growth. Production needed to bring prices down ''takes at least several months, usually a year to two years, to come. Raghuveera Reddy, agriculture...

Locals won't be surprised to learn that the Santa Cruz market was one of the original seven in the state to jump-start the revolution now occuring in American eating habits. While Parsons isn't bold enough to name a favorite fruit or vegetable, he does admit that he looks forward to strawberries and sugar snap peas in the spring; tomatoes and peaches in the summer; pears, apples and bell peppers in the fall and citrus, mandarins and greens in the winter. The ultimate guide for cooks who...