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	<title>Hawaii Agriculture</title>
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		<title>Farmers say tax changes pose threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Ag News and Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haliimaile Pineapple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maui Gold Pineapple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm bureau]]></category>
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MAKAWAO &#8211; Upcountry farmers said this week that they have concerns about proposals to change the way agricultural lands are taxed.
A number of landowners said any changes that increased what they pay in property taxes could put small farmers and ranchers out of business. Others questioned how the proposal would affect people who stop farming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephants and rhinos in Australia &#8216;could control damaging wild grasses&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Invasive Species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livestock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian outback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gamba grass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazers]]></category>
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African gamba grass, introduced in the 1930s, wreaks havoc on the landscape and provides dangerous fuel for wildfires, experts say
   Elephants and rhinoceros should be introduced to the Australian outback to control the impact of damaging wild grasses, according to an Australian professor of environmental change biology. But other Australian academics warned the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heady, heavenly garden scents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Ag News and Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aroma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citrus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culinary herbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dianthus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fragrance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freesias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[french tarragon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gum trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jonquils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laurus nobilis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lavender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lily of the valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[native trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pennyroyal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sweet peas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vietnamese mint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viola hederacea]]></category>
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BURYING your nose in a bunch of lavender or running your hands along a hedge in full flower is one of life&#8217;s pleasures. Whether it&#8217;s an old-fashioned rose, a small bunch of freshly picked violets or a pungent herb, the heady smell is a reminder of the joy that nature &#8211; and gardening &#8211; bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government requires more fruits, veggies for school lunches</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Ag News and Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit and vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leafy vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school meals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Vilsack]]></category>
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Today the government is releasing new nutrition standards for school meals that spell out dramatic changes, including slashing sodium, limiting calories and offering students a wider variety and larger portions of fruits and vegetables. These changes will raise the nutrition standards for meals for the first time in more than 15 years.
&#8220;When we send our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plant hardiness map revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Globel Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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The first daffodils have crept into flower and the snowdrops have peaked already. If you think winters aren’t what they used to be, you’re not alone.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday released a plant hardiness zone map of the nation that shows generally warmer winter low temperatures than the department’s previous map [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botanists agree to loosen Latin’s grip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[latin names]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[national herbarium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york botanical garden]]></category>
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Latin is a bit like a zombie: Dead but still clamoring to get into our brains.
In one discipline, however, Latin just got a bit deader.
For at least 400 years, botanists across the globe have relied on Latin as their lingua franca, but the ardor has cooled. Scientists say plants will keep their double-barreled Latin names, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nearly 7 million bats may have died from white-nose fungus, officials say</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[endangered species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bat conservation international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brown bats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extinction events]]></category>
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More than five years since the deadly white-nose fungus was first detected in a New York cave where bats hibernate, up to 6.7 million of the animals are estimated to have died in 16 states and Canada, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday.
The estimate, drawn from surveys by wildlife officials mostly in Northeastern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical Gardening &#8211; Vitamins abound</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[acerola]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[barbados cherry]]></category>
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Tropical Gardening &#8212; Vitamins aboundSunday, January 15 2:10 am
Lucky we live Hawaii, but we can learn a lot from gardeners on other tropical islands. Right now, we are in the Dominican Republic working with farmers on a project sponsored by the Florida Association for Volunteer Action in the Caribbean and the Americas, or FAVACA.
Voltaire Moise, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All about Palms with William Merwin and Leland Miyano</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flowers & Nursery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MALP Educational Meeting&#8212;Free to the public
Date: Tuesday January 24, 2012
Place:  Maui Community Service Bldg next to CTHAR Extension Services (Map) on the UH Maui campus.
Time: Pupus will be served at 6:30 pm and the talk will begin at 7:00.
On January 24th MALP is proud to host guest speakers: William Merwin and Leland Miyano as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuna, meat labeling disputes highlight WTO control</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Ag News and Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livestock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beef producers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calves]]></category>
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You might have missed this while you were busy taking the kids to school and preparing for the holidays, but last fall, two U.S. food labeling programs suffered serious legal setbacks that threaten to confuse consumers and thwart the intentions of the “dolphin-safe” tuna and “country-of-origin” labels.
The details are complicated, but in September and November, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biofuels become a victim of own success &#8211; but not for long &#124; Damian Carrington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
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Biofuels have become a victim of own success, it appears: for the first time in a decade global production has dropped. Production in 2011 dropped a touch from 1.822m barrels a day in 2010 to 1.819m in 2011, according to IEA statistics (p30) highlighted by the Financial Times.
The key reason has been the rising cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. tightens fishing policy, setting 2012 catch limits for all managed species</title>
		<link>http://hawaii-agriculture.com/hawaii-agriculture-blog/u-s-tightens-fishing-policy-setting-2012-catch-limits-for-all-managed-species/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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In an effort to sustain commercial and recreational fishing for the next several decades, the United States this year will become the first country to impose catch limits for every species it manages, from Alaskan pollock to Caribbean queen conch.
Although the policy has attracted scant attention outside the community of those who fish in America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Bill Programs Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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USDA Farm Service Agency News Release
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, is offering technical and financial assistance to farmers and ranchers to develop, install and implement authorized conservation practices. To receive assistance, the farmer or rancher must be in control of the land where practices will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bright sparks of electro-horticulture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Ever since Benjamin Franklin got his knuckles burned when flying a kite in a thunderstorm, many scientists — and even more quacks — have been curious about the possibilities of what has been called electro-horticulture.
The logic is inescapable — most things react in some way to an electric current. Why shouldn’t plants react too, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmentalists hope to turn the tide against use of sea walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigwave</dc:creator>
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For years, San Francisco&#8217;s Ocean Beach has been under assault by such powerful surf that a fierce winter storm can scour away 25 feet of bluff in just days.
The startling pace of the erosion near the San Francisco Zoo has compelled the city to spend $5 million to shore up the crumbling bluffs. The strategy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More young people see opportunity in farming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Mone, APWhile fresh demographic information on U.S. farmers won&#8217;t be available until after a new agricultural census is done next year, there are signs more people in their 20s and 30s are going into farming: Enrollment in university agriculture programs has increased, as has interest in farmer-training programs.
Young people are turning up at [...]]]></description>
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