agriculture
Jun 17 2009, Byron Clark

Research at Massey University has shown that agricultural workers have the highest incidence of leukaemia of all New Zealand occupation groups. The cause is expected to be exposure to pesticides. The Centre for Public Health Research has just...

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FILE - In this June 7, 2005 file photo, rice from Arkansas fields is loaded onto a barge on the Arkansas River in North Little Rock, Ark. With President Barack Obama easing some travel restrictions to Cuba this April, 2009, U.S. agricultural groups have..