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(SUSAN WALSH/The Associated Press) President Barack Obama walks toward his bus after stopping in Boone, N.C., Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Obama is on a three-day bus tour promoting the American Jobs Act.

Obama basks in Southern hospitality on bus tour

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 9:38am

GREENSBORO, N.C. — For President Barack Obama, the bus is back.

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(ALLEN BREED/The Associated Press) In this Sept. 30, 2011 photo, Clemson University doctoral student Nick Seiter shows a sweep net filled with “kudzu bugs” caught in a test plot in Blackville, S.C. Seiter is studying the invasive Asian bug, which is wreaking havoc on soybean crops.

Kudzu bug’ threatens to eat US farmers’ lunch

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 9:52am

BLACKVILLE, S.C. — Kudzu — the “plant that ate the South” — has finally met a pest that’s just as voracious. Trouble is, the so-called “kudzu bug” is also fond of another East Asian transplant that we happen to like, and that is big money for American farmers.

Business, Farming, Japan, Pests, Southeastern United States, Soy, National     Read more     Comments
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