The department,through its Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, has been supporting a project in Michigan.That state has a short growing season.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

In fact,a gardener at the Colorado State University Extension says there are between one hundred fifty and two hundred kinds of chili peppers.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Ron Waldrop is a county extension director for the University of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

The extension service suggests a crop such as clover,buckwheat or winter rye.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Jim Bottcher is a master gardener with the University of Florida extension.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

It sent markets across the planet tumbling, last week, when executives asked creditors for a six-month extension on repaying its debts.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

Mr.Obama said maneuvering by Senate Republicans to block extension of unemployment benefits demonstrates, what he called,a lack of faith in the American people.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Kara Lubischer is a community development specialist with the University of Missouri Extension.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

In one televised interview with a Pakistani network, he called the present conflict an extension of the 2007 standoff between former president Pervez Musharraf and supreme court justices who threatened to invalidate his presidency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

"In recent years, the development of rapid, diagnostic tests for malaria, also known as RDTs, which can be performed by healthcare workers after a brief training has made the extension of diagnostic testing to rural health facilities possible."

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Three times in recent weeks, Republicans have used parliamentary tactics in the Senate to block the extension of benefits, angering the president at a time when he is trying to move this and other legislation through Congress before the congressional recess.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The draft joint statement also called for progress on ITGI, a Turkish-Greek gas pipeline taking gas to Italy, and for an extension of an oil transport system between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan that "could be developed in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region."

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

Warren says now that researchers have a map of the zebra finch genome, they can carry out experiments to identify which genes in the finch's brain are most critical to hearing and producing song - and by extension, which genes may play a role in human speech disorders, like those related to stuttering, autism,and Parkinson's disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05