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Updated: 3/11/2010

Markets

Corn, wheat fall after latest crop report

By STEPHEN BERNARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Corn and wheat prices retreated Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture's monthly crop report showed plenty of supply for the two grains. Soybean prices rose after the report showed a slight drop in supply. The USDA's ...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:59 PM

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Tropicana sizes shrink, prices rise on citrus woes

By EMILY FREDRIX Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Pepsico Inc. is raising prices on its popular Tropicana orange juice because of the deep freeze that hurt much of Florida ...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:29 PM

Corn, wheat fall after latest crop report

By STEPHEN BERNARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Corn and wheat prices retreated Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture's monthly crop report showed plenty ...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:59 PM

Canadian firm offers to buy Dakota Growers Pasta

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A Canadian food processing and grain handling company is offering to buy Dakota Growers Pasta Co. of Carrington for about $240 million. Viterra Inc.'s ...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:08 AM

Portland daily grain report for Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Bids as of 9:30 a.m.; subject to change. Bids for grains delivered to Portland, Ore., during March by rail or barge, in dollars per bushel, except oats, corn and barley, in do ...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 10:48 AM

Livestock

Meatpackers say inspection cuts are shortsighted

By KEN KUSMER Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana's plan to lay off some meat inspectors to save money and reduce the time inspectors spend with small, independ ...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:08 AM

Lawmakers OK expanding privacy on feedlot manure

By SIMMI AUJLAAssociated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The Idaho cattle industry is raising a stink in hopes of restricting public access to the state's oversight ...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:58 AM

Closed Nebraska meat plants may soon have new owner

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) -- A new company is buying the former Premium Protein Products plant in Hastings, planning to run a custom slaughter operation. Managing partner Jim Ste ...

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:29 PM

Group challenges sage grouse finding

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- An environmental group is challenging plans by the Interior Department to classify sage grouse as merely a candidat ...

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:29 AM

Research Center

Bayer ordered to pay more than $1M to rice farmer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A Wooodruff County Circuit Court jury has ordered Bayer CropScience LP to pay a rice farmer more than $1 million in a lawsuit over experimental rice va ...

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 8:08 AM

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Plant lab tackles lupine

RITZVILLE, Wash. -- Jake Harder can't remember a year when he didn't have at least one calf afflicted with crooked calf disease. "Severe ones, the mother will bring them ...

Saturday, March 06, 2010 10:08 AM

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Machines take over milking duties

Equipment lowers labor costs, reduces cases of mastitis By KATHY LYNN GRAYAssociated Press PLAIN CITY, Ohio -- Every dairy farmer's dream is playing out at the Gruen ...

Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:35 AM

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Sensors, software send Ag alerts to farmer phones

DAVID LESTERYakima Herald-Republic via Associated Press YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- A marriage between agriculture research and software development ...

Saturday, March 06, 2010 10:49 AM

Energy

Gas price rises seen gentler on consumer wallets

By CHRIS KAHN and DEBORAH JIAN LEE Associated Press As the economy recovers, energy prices are rising and that is placing extra strain on families' budgets. Each sprin ...

Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:15 AM

Small Ore. town frets over wind farm proposal

UNION, Ore. (AP) -- For decades, not much has changed in the tiny northeastern Oregon town of Union. Nestled in the Grande Ronde Valley, it lies close to the spectacular Eagle Cap ...

Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:09 AM

Rural electrics in line for federal loan money

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Three North Dakota rural electric cooperatives are among 29 nationwide getting federal loans and loan guarantees for upgrades. Agriculture Secr ...

Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:08 AM

Biofuels fraud trial opens in Mississippi

ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) -- A federal trial is under way for a man accused of defrauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of $2.8 million in bioenergy subsidy money. Test ...

Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:29 AM

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