Sign up to adopt a canal next year, plant a tree, make your backyard more friendly for wildlife, test your soil to make sure you put just the right amount of fertilizer on your lawn, put in backyard terraces to help slow runoff from heavy rains, or start a compost pile. The East Side and West Side Soil and Water Conservation Districts wants each of us to do our part to make the habitat in our community a better place to live. The resolution intends to increase public awareness, education, and understanding that will lead to responsible application and regulation of biotechnology, which is leading to breakthroughs in medical and agriculture technology. Biotechnology has been, and continues to be, an vital element in many of the scientific advances people worldwide benefit from. It is important to recognize the versatile role biotechnology plays in areas such as human health care, agriculture, conservation, and waste management.
Biotechnology is the foundation for numerous areas of research.
Scientific developments in this field have led to increased crop yields and farm production, medical breakthroughs in diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's, AIDS, and cancer, and improved waste management. At the direction of ICA s Executive Committee the organization has compiled a fact sheet and sent a detailed letter to Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman. We are grateful to USDA, ISDA and the NCBA for their continued efforts to prevent Foot and Mouth Disease from entering our country, commented ICA President Scott Bedke of Oakley. While we are confident in their efforts on a state and national level we want to be sure that local producers have the most recent information available. As a service to the industry, ICA has compiled a two-page fact sheet on Foot and Mouth Disease that summarizes the major issues including preventive efforts, biosecurity protocol, disease indemnity program and import restrictions.