21.   Agriculture officials say the Belgian sheep could have caught the disease by eating contaminated feed while they were still in Belgium.

22.   Agriculture officials say the criticism has led it to revise its review policy on research financing to allow more input from biotechnology critics.

23.   But federal and local agriculture officials who administer the program insist it will be so tightly regulated that there will be little, if any, chance for trouble.

24.   California agriculture officials, concerned that the virus would be transmitted to larger citrus groves, banned the Meyer in many of the citrus growing areas of the state.

25.   Corn and soybeans plunged after a U.S. agriculture official said Taiwan will cut feedgrain purchases for its disease-ravaged hog herd.

26.   FDA investigators are focusing on a processing plant in Guatemala where more than one frozen mamey brand is manufactured, an agriculture official said Wednesday.

27.   Federal and state agriculture officials hope the program will be adopted by all cotton-growing regions in the state.

28.   Florida tomatoes may have also suffered from the freeze, state agriculture officials said.

29.   Florida agriculture officials discovered the colonies at the port of Jacksonville.

30.   Federal law prohibits top agriculture officials from accepting gifts from companies they regulate.