1.   Because it has not yet greatly hurt commercial agriculture, the threat to the honeybee has not generated much publicity or needed research funds.

2.   Heavy rains hurt agriculture.

3.   Some even argue that bringing in more Mexicans would ultimately hurt American agriculture by removing incentives for farmers to become more productive.

4.   EU agriculture ministers were meeting separately Monday to consider drastic measures to combat mad-cow disease, which has undermined consumer confidence in beef and badly hurt agriculture.

5.   Last week, a report prepared for the Security Council warned that sanctions might make it difficult for Sudanese to seek medical treatment abroad and could hurt agriculture.

6.   Officials of some European countries had sought to postpone the talks on the grounds that lowering tariff barriers on Mexican goods could hurt European agriculture.

7.   The drought has killed cattle, hurt agriculture and threatened water supplies used to generate electricity.

8.   The survey found that two straight years of drought and inadequate availability of seeds and other farming supplies severely hurt Iraqi agriculture.

9.   Yet other families have been split by fathers forced to work in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, because a drought has hurt agriculture in the valley.