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Thursday, February 09, 2012

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Western innovator: Dairy profits on pampered cows

PAUL, Idaho -- At Horizon Organic's dairy, cows move at their own pace from the barns to the pastures and finally to the rotary milking parlor, where they calmly chew their cud as they ride the carousel. "This calmness and contentedness is the output of everything we do on the dairy, all the love ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM

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Livestock

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Sheepherder visas under fire

A farmworker advocacy group wants to end the federal H-2A guestworker program for sheepherders, a move that threatens the U.S. sheep industry, a representative of the Western Ran ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM

Reformer warns of ranchers' peril

Ranchers risk losing their independence unless they keep pressing for stronger oversight of meat packers, according to a former USDA official who recently resigned after losing a ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:00 AM

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Sheep ranchers say they face uncertain future

MOXEE, Wash. -- Members of the Martinez family have raised sheep in Central Washington for about 75 years and sometimes wonder how long they will be able to continue. Like sheep r ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM

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Livestock group gives teens a hand and a heifer

ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Cy Holcomb and Nick Williams don't have a thousand bucks in their pockets. So when the Douglas County Livestock Association announced late last year it was beg ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM

California

Diamond Foods names new CEO on audit results

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Diamond Foods Inc. said Wednesday it is replacing its CEO and chief financial officer after an internal investigation found that the company improperly accoun ...

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:03 PM

Farm show vendors flush with prosperity

COLUSA, Calif. - Vendors at the 47th annual Colusa Farm Show here said their sales have been good and getting better, buoyed by strength in prices for rice, nuts and other crops ...

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 5:02 PM

Wine warehouse arsonist gets 27 years prison

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A former California wine keeper convicted of destroying more than 4.5 million bottles in a warehouse fire was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in prison. ...

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:31 PM

Appeals court cuts down Forest Service plan

The U.S. Forest Service violated environmental law by approving a plan to greatly increase allowable logging levels on national forests in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, ...

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:30 PM

Idaho

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Western innovator: Dairy profits on pampered cows

PAUL, Idaho -- At Horizon Organic's dairy, cows move at their own pace from the barns to the pastures and finally to the rotary milking parlor, where they calmly chew their cud a ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM

Idaho Senate committee OKs animal cruelty bill

BOISE -- The Idaho Senate ag committee today accepted a bill that would add a felony provision for animal cruelty to state law, a day after a House committee rejected similar ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:03 AM

Beet processing in final weeks at Lovell factory

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) -- The Western Sugar Cooperative is nearing the end of delivering sugar beets to the Lovell processing factory in northern Wyoming. Randall Jobman of ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 8:34 AM

Animal cruelty bill spiked

BOISE -- The House Agricultural Affairs Committee rejected a proposal to add a felony provision for animal cruelty to state law. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Tom Trail, R-Moscow, said ...

Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:00 AM

Special section/dairy

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Special report: Genetics help quest for improved dairy cows

For dairy farmers, mapping the bovine genome in 2009 has led to a world of possibilities. The information gained from mapping the genes of cows will one day be used to select da ...

Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:00 PM

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Scientist sees opportunities for Posilac

A scientist who works extensively with dairy cows believes Posilac still has a future in the industry, though the drug has largely fallen out of favor with some producers. As th ...

Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:00 PM

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World holds key to higher milk prices

Uncertainty about the direction of milk prices versus feed prices has haunted the dairy industry in 2011, leaving farmers on uneven financial footing. At least one factor has re ...

Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:00 PM

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Attorney: Prepare for union inroads

When a union came to organize his dairy's workforce, Patrick Johnston was caught off guard. Johnston, co-owner of the Rocking S Dairy in Modesto, Calif., said unions had not his ...

Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:00 PM

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