Stories Tagged "Mexico"
Mexico Destroys 1 Million Chickens For Bird Flu
posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:18 PM
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- ?An outbreak of the H7N3 bird flu virus in western Mexico has infected about 2.5 million chickens and led authorities to destroy or dispose of almost a million birds.
The country's Agriculture Department says that 129 farms...
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Pork Exports Rocket Up, Look Promising in 2012
posted on March 9, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Stocks-To-Use For Corn and Soybeans Remain Historically Tight
posted on March 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM
North Mexico wilts under worst drought in 70 years
posted on December 2, 2011 at 2:30 PM
The sun-baked northern states of Mexico are suffering under the worst drought since the government began recording rainfall 70 years ago. Crops of corn, beans and oats are withering in the fields. About 1.7 million cattle have died of starvation...
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Texas Farmers Say Drug War Making Job Dangerous
posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:03 PM
LA JOYA, Texas (AP) -- As Texas farmhands prepared this winter to burn stalks of sugarcane for harvest along the Rio Grande, four masked men on ATVs suddenly surrounded the crew members and ordered them to leave.
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Border Violence Spills Onto Mexican Ranches, Farms
posted on July 9, 2010 at 3:07 PM
LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- Mexican rancher Isidro Gutierrez watched with disgust as federal inspectors here chalked a long stripe on his steer's hindquarter.
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Remembering the Father of the Green Revolution
posted on December 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Mexico Officials Pig Out on Pork to Ease Flu Fears
posted on May 15, 2009 at 8:05 PM
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials are going hog-wild over pork to encourage their countrymen to put the pig back in the taco.
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Mexico Imposes Tariffs on U.S. Goods
posted on March 27, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Mexico Truck Retaliation Does Not Include Meat Products
posted on March 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM
(AP) Meat and poultry products are not included on the list of U.S products Mexico will subject to tariffs in retaliation for the United States ending a program that allowed Mexican trucks to operate on U.S roads, according to the American Meat...
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Administration to Reinvent Mexican Truck Program
posted on March 13, 2009 at 8:03 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will try to reinvent a program to allow Mexican trucks full access to U.S highways.
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Mexico Joins Canada in WTO Beef Complaint vs. US
posted on December 19, 2008 at 8:12 PM
GENEVA (AP) — Mexico joined Canada in opposing a new U.S law on country-of-origin labeling for fresh beef and pork by filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization on Thursday.
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Mexican Workers in US During WWII Can Get Back Pay
posted on October 17, 2008 at 8:10 PM
CHICAGO (AP) -- Ramon Ibarra remembers his backbreaking days repairing railroads in the Southwest, a contract job for which he left Mexico in 1942 as part of a guest worker program.
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Mexico Suspends Beef, Poultry Shipments to U.S.
posted on September 5, 2008 at 8:09 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government of Mexico has voluntarily suspended shipments of meat and processed poultry to the United States after U.S officials raised concerns about the quality of Mexican food processing and inspections, an Agriculture...
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Immigration, Agriculture, and the Border Fence
posted on July 18, 2008 at 8:07 PM
