Urban farmers collide with city rules

Agriculture futures mostly fall, livestock higher

October milk production drops year-over-year

Portland Daily Grain Report for Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

J.M. Smucker 2nd-quarter profit soars on coffee

GAO denies appeal of NOAA move

SEATTLE (AP) -- The federal Government Accountability Office has denied an appeal that protested the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's decision to move its research fleet from Seattle's Lake Union to Newport, Ore. On Thursday, the GAO essentially said the appeal was n ...

Dairy group receives recharge water

Dairy farmers in Southern Idaho have something to be thankful for this month, even in the depths of the industry's worst downturn in decades. They've received 3,600 acre-feet of water to mitigate for the impact that dairy ground water pumping has had on senior water rights holders in the ...

Island's bison given birth control to control herd

AVALON, Calif. (AP) -- Birth control for bison? That's what conservationists are giving a herd on Santa Catalina Island in an attempt to reduce the population. Females over the age of 2 will be injected with a contraceptive under a five-year experimental program that begins Friday. ...

Productivity, sustainability compatible

Editorial Three events in recent weeks in different parts of the world juxtaposed a problem and a potential solution. In Rome, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization said the declining aid and investment in agriculture has driven up the number of hungry people around the globe to mor ...