VOA常速英语2018--打贸易战 美国农民有阵痛

Among the mounting concerns, Illinois farmer Bob Gurkey is juggling. He is racing against the clock to harvest his corn and soybeans. Bob spends up to 14 hours a day in the fields. Biggest concern right now of harvesting that we dont get stuck, and w

冀教版小学英语(三起)--第二册 UNIT 1 Food and More Numbers-Lesson 6 What's for Breakfast

UNIT 1 Food and More Numbers 食物和数字 Lesson 6 What's for Breakfast?早上吃什么? 1.What's this?这是什么? juice 果汁 eggs 鸡蛋 bread 面包 toast and jam 吐司面包和果酱 2.Porridge or cereal?麦片粥和谷物粥? I like porri

VOA慢速英语2009-Development Report - Growing Crops With Less Wat

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water

VOA标准英语2009年-GM Crops Dominate US Farms, but Organic In

By Steve Baragona Washington 29 October 2009 Garden pest As farmers across the United States are bringing in the harvest, silos are filling up with record or near-record quantities of corn and soybeans. To an extent not seen anywhere else in the wor

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Wayward Weedkiller Divides Farm Communities, Harms Wildlife

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This summer in Arkansas, a weed-killing chemical called dicamba drifted across the landscape and damaged millions of acres of crops. And the injury went deeper. It split rural communities. It destroyed friends and took a toll on th

VOA标准英语2012--US Drought Impacts Global Food Security

US Drought Impacts Global Food Security The United States is the leading producer of corn and soybeans two commodities that developing countries rely on. However, over the past two months, prices have risen sharply as the U.S. experiences its worst d

VOA标准英语2012--Corn Harvest Comes Early for Midwest Farmers

Corn Harvest Comes Early for Midwest Farmers The only thing farmer Bruce Nation sees in his cornfields outside Taylorville, Illinois, is heartache. This stuff is depressing here. This is hard to look at for me, he said. Most of the ears of corn that

美国国家公共电台 NPR Hog Farmers Worry They'll Be Further Squeezed By China's Pork Tariffs

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, we still don't know if the tariff threats being lobbed back and forth by the U.S. and China will become a full-blown trade war, but farmers in the Midwest are already feeling effects from these early skirmishes. Earlier

美国国家公共电台 NPR U.S. Economy Surges To A 4.1 Percent Growth Pace In 2nd Quarter

NOEL KING, HOST: President Trump has been promising that his economic policies are going to launch our economy into overdrive. He's even predicted the country will achieve about twice the growth rate of recent years, up around 4 percent sustained ann

美国国家公共电台 NPR Caught Between Trump's Tariffs And Tax Changes, Soybean Farmers Face Uncertain Future

NOEL KING, HOST: Across the Midwest, it's grain harvesting time. And this year, there are three big problems. One is wet fields, two, low crop prices exacerbated by a trade war that decimated the Chinese market for soybeans, and third, some twists fr

2018年CRI China's grain companies turn to alternative soybean supply sources

China's grain enterprises are turning to alternative sources for soybean imports, given the reduction of soybean imports from the United States amid the trade frictions between the two countries. China is the world's largest soybean importer, account

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Subsoiling Increases Soybean and Cotton

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Subsoiling Increases Soybean and Cotton Production in Clay Soil By Avi Arditti Broadcast: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Agriculture R

VOA慢速英语2010年-Development Report - Growing Crops Wit

This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water

VOA标准英语2010年-Researchers Unravel Soybean's Genetic

The soybean has fed generations of Asians, fattened countless head of livestock and is now poised to take off as the next generation of jet fuel. Scientists have decoded the legume's genetic sequence. First domesticated by the Chinese more than 3000