91.   Defense Department officials have forbidden transport of the equipment by land from the port of Beaumont near Houston to Fort Bliss, a state agriculture official said Saturday.

92.   Dankvert told the ITAR-Tass news agency that agriculture officials were still working on the new requirements, which would be forwarded to the United States soon.

93.   EU veterinary experts will meet with British agriculture officials Friday and Monday before making any decisions on an EU-wide response, said EU farm spokesman Gerry Kiely.

94.   Federal agriculture officials have long argued that basic farm technology should be in the public domain and were unhappy over the cotton patent.

95.   EU agriculture officials said the talks would likely drag on most of the week, any conclusion on the transport issue unlikely before Thursday.

96.   Farmers and agriculture officials usually spray pesticides to kill the locusts early in the summer, before they can do serious damage.

97.   European agriculture officials were meeting in Brussels on Monday to discuss the crisis.

98.   Florida agriculture officials discovered the salmonella during routine testing.

99.   Fearing a Medfly outbreak, state agriculture officials have ordered that all Spanish Clementines be pulled from grocery stores across the state.

100.   Federal agriculture officials have been told that farmers need direct assistance, not loans.