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Monday, March 22, 2010

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Agriculture futures, livestock prices trade mixed

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 ...

Monday, March 22, 2010 8:28 AM

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Energy

Enviros, growers agree on farmland reuse for solar

LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) -- Cash-strapped farmers in California's agricultural heartland and environmentalists at odds over water rights and wildlife protections finally agree on ...

Monday, March 22, 2010 7:28 AM

Christmas Valley wants sagebrush, not solar panels

CHRISTMAS VALLEY, Ore. -- When Gary Perkins heard that solar companies were buying nearby fields and planning to fill them with commercial solar arrays, the Christmas Valley ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM

Small wind turbines offered Iowa farmers

MEYER, Iowa (AP) -- Klapperich Farm Systems Inc. of Meyer is installing smaller-scale wind turbines to generate electricity at several hog confinements in the Meyer and ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:49 AM

Planes may fly mostly on biofuels with 10 years

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Within a decade, passenger planes will be flying on jet fuel largely made from plants -- flax, marsh grass, even food waste -- as airlines seek to bre ...

Friday, March 19, 2010 7:49 AM

Research Center

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Family research team finds niche

RUPERT, Idaho -- When Terry Miller was a young professor at Ohio State University, his father developed health problems and asked if he would consider coming back to work on ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM

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Vilsack: Climate bill can benefit ag

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 "avoi ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM

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Lab speeds wheat breeding

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. N ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM

Noted wheat breeder joins French co-op

A leader in Pacific Northwest wheat breeding is leaving Oregon State University. OSU wheat breeder Jim Peterson in May will become vice president of research for France- ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM

Organic

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Beet growers savor ruling

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 ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM

Montana producers say organic beef sales dropping

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- Officials with the Montana Organic Producers Cooperative say the state's organic beef growers had a rough year in 2009. Mark Smith, the ...

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:48 AM

Precision-ag claims rile organic group

When Sara Lee launched its Eco-Grain marketing program to promote its EarthGrains breads, it raised the hackles of the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based organic watchdo ...

Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:09 PM

Conference educates of advantages of vouchers

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Farmers learned about a variety of issues facing family farms at a recent small-farm conference -- including how to navigate the bureaucracy surrounding v ...

Saturday, March 13, 2010 10:09 AM

Outdoors

Park Co wants more snowmobiles in Yellowstone

CODY, Wyo. (AP) -- Snowmobile access to Yellowstone National Park remains the main issue for Park County commissioners commenting on a new winter use plan for the park. ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:58 AM

Trial opens in illegal bighorn purchase

BOULDER, Mont. (AP) -- Trial has begun in Boulder for a Whitehall taxidermist charged with paying $5,000 to buy a trophy bighorn ram that he knew had been shot illegall ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 8:58 AM

Chronic wasting disease found in North Dakota

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Chronic wasting disease has been found in North Dakota for the first time. The state Game and Fish Department says a mule deer killed by a hunter las ...

Friday, March 19, 2010 2:08 PM

Minnesota petitions to take wolves off endangered list

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minnesota petitioned the federal government on Wednesday to take the gray wolf off the endangered and threatened species list in the state and give it bac ...

Friday, March 19, 2010 2:08 PM

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