Department of Agriculture, and Philip Martin at the University of California, Davis, have studied trends in mechanization to predict how US farms might fare.

美国农业部和加州大学戴维斯分校的菲利普·马丁研究了机械化趋势，以预测美国农场的发展状况。

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The US department of agriculture reported earlier this month that US ethanol refiners were for the first time consuming more corn than livestock and poultry farmers.

美国农业部本月早些时候的报告称，美国乙醇精炼厂的玉米的消耗量首次超过了畜牧场的消耗量。

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The report warned that US corn and soybean stocks were also dangerously low, with the department of agriculture projecting supplies at about half typical levels.

报告同时警告美国的玉米和大豆库存已经降到了危险的程度，在参考了农业部计划供应量的因素后，也就是正常库存水平的一半的样子。

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That's going too far says Gale Buchanan, a former under-secretary at the US Department of Agriculture, "My reaction to the document is: we have problems.

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), has announced that US sugar supplies could run short this year as farmers could lose 21% of the 2011 crop if they are not able to start sowing in the spring.

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Matt Buffington, a research entomologist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), says the stink bugs arrived in the US sometime between the late 1990s and 2003 to find an "enemy-free space".

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Last week, the US department of agriculture released the most comprehensive analysis of data on GM crops in the US. As expected, these show a dramatic uptake among farmers - a six-fold increase to 50 million acres in just two years.

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