Monday, March 22, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) -- Agriculture futures were mixed Monday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery added 2.25 cents to $4.86 a bushel; May corn shed 1.5 cents to $3.73 a bushel; May soybeans gained 2.75 cents to $9.645 a bushel; and May oats were flat at $2.245 a bu ...
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SEATTLE (AP) -- A Port Townsend farmer apparently had a secret life as a bank robber. Michael Fenter, owner of Compass Rose Farm, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to four counts of bank robbery and weapons charges. The charges stem from holdups in Seattle, Tacoma, ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:28 AM
A nonprofit organization that promotes healthy eating is urging fruit and vegetable producers and sellers to promote their own products through a nationwide contest. The Produce for Better Health Foundation's Your Healthy Life and You contest offers prizes for families who tell their best fruit an ...
Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:09 AM
The sugar beet industry expressed relief after a federal judge on March 16 denied an effort to block the use of genetically engineered seeds this season. "We're excited, we're glad," said Vic Jaro, president and CEO of Amalgamated Sugar Co. in Boise. "That turns us loose; our growers can ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM
Rancher Wade King is worried about the bottleneck in the beef industry. Only a handful of meat companies stand between ranchers and consumers, giving beef packers undue command over the market, he said. "The cattle producer's share of the retail dollar continues to shrink," said King ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Hay exporter Rollie Bernth doesn't suffer from a deficiency of overseas customers. The problem is transporting his hay across the Pacific Ocean, said Bernth, president of the Ward Rugh hay company in Ellensburg, Wash. "We're not able to get hay shipped," Bernth said ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week renewed the argument that climate legislation can be crafted to benefit agriculture. Legislation can be crafted to "avoid unintended consequences and provide enormous benefits to our agricultural economy, and our environment," Vilsack said ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
ANKENY, Iowa -- Federal officials concerned about how much control a few corporations have over the nation's food supply pledged March 12 to begin a new era of antitrust enforcement, seeking to balance agricultural power between companies, farmers and consumers. More than 650 farmers, sla ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
The sage grouse isn't listed as an endangered species, but federal officials hope to help ranchers protect the bird's habitat and avoid that fate. "We have a window of time that we can take steps proactively to help the bird's habitat," USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Da ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Kulvinder Gill can't speed up time, but he can speed up the work of wheat breeders at the new Washington State University doubled haploid laboratory. Normally, when wheat breeders cross any two wheat lines, several succeeding generations of wheat seed are different unti ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
Several times in recent months Bill Levy has sat in meetings listening to technology developers try to pry funds from venture capitalists for alternative energy plants. In most cases, the developers have grandiose plans for turning biomass into energy. But few, he said, realize what ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM
The U.S. International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency, has launched an investigation into the constraints faced by small- and medium-sized exporters. Such enterprises have been a major growth engine for jobs in the past 15 years, so U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk aske ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM
The Foster Farms poultry company is engaged in a legal battle with its former lender, SunTrust Bank, over alleged misuse of confidential data. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case on March 9. The bank claims it shouldn't have to pay the California-ba ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM
For years, farmers believed they didn't lose much nitrogen when they applied urea to fields in colder conditions. But a new study from Montana State University indicates more of the essential soil nutrient is lost than originally thought. University soil scientist Rick Engel is two y ...
Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM
Freeze reduces Florida crop size 19 percent, USDA says NEW YORK (AP) -- Pepsico Inc. is raising prices on its popular Tropicana orange juice because of the deep freeze that hurt much of Florida's citrus crop. The company said last week it is shrinking its most popular size by about 8 perce ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:24 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A diesel generator plant in South Carolina plans to add up to 500 jobs in the next four years. The State newspaper reported Caterpillar plans to more than triple employment at its plant in Newberry. Caterpillar spokesman Jim Dugan says the company has 190 work ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 7:28 AM
DENVER (AP) -- Grain prices rose Wednesday amid speculation that wet, cooler weather could slow spring planting across much of the country. Other factors that benefited commodities across the board included a weaker dollar and the rising stock market. It was a wetter-than-normal wint ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 3:28 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won final congressional approval Wednesday. The bipartisan 68-29 vote in the Senate sends the legislation to the White House, where President Barack Obama has p ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 10:09 AM
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 dollars per cwt. Bids for soft white wheat are for delivery periods as specified. All other wheat and barley bids are fo ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 9:39 AM
CHICAGO (AP) -- Agriculture futures were mixed Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery was unchanged at $4.87 a bushel; May corn slipped 1 cent to $3.6575 a bushel; May soybeans dipped 0.5 cent to $9.445 a bushel; and May oats added 2 cents to $2.20 a bushel. Mea ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 9:09 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Debate is heating up within the Federal Reserve over how and when to signal that the days of record-low interest rates are numbered. A rate hike isn't imminent. But at their meeting, which started March 16, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues focused on how ...
Friday, March 19, 2010 1:09 AM
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 dollars per cwt. Bids for soft white wheat are for delivery periods as specified. All other wheat and barley bids are fo ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:19 AM
RUSTBURG, Va. (AP) -- For the first time in more than 15 years, Campbell County farmer Kevin Trent is not hiring farmhands from other countries. Instead, he's cutting his tobacco crop back to 10 acres, instead of the normal 35 acres. The federal program that facilitates the hiring of ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:38 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Lower demand for new houses and for chicken played a large part in a $1.2 million drop in agriculture's contribution to Louisiana's economy last year, says LSU AgCenter economist John Westra. Agriculture's $8.3 billion share in 2009 was the lowest since 2002, when it ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:38 AM
CHICAGO (AP) -- Agriculture futures were mixed Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May delivery lost 6 cents to $4.7925 a bushel, while May corn fell 1 cent to $3.6325 a bushel and oats for May delivery shed 2.5 cents to $2.16 a bushel. May soybeans rose 4.5 cents to $9. ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:29 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More corners of the country would have high-speed Internet access and existing connections would become much faster under a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy that is being unveiled Tuesday. The plan from the Federal Communications Commission is meant t ...
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