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Farmers intend to follow up last year's record-high corn production by planting 8 percent fewer acres this spring, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual Prospective Plantings Report.
This early-season estimate, combined with increasingly strong demand for corn and fears of a delayed planting season, have many market watchers on edge.
A new agricultural industry is steadily gaining popularity with Iowa cattle producers.
A survey recently conducted by Iowa State University Extension attempted to determine how popular custom or contract grazing is becoming in Iowa.
NORCO, La. (AP) -- In a sure sign that the Mississippi River is uncommonly high, muddy water poured steadily Tuesday into a holding area through a beaver-dam-like structure built after the great flood of 1927, aiming for the sea.
Are the tens of thousands of playa lakes that dot the Southern High Plains key to keeping the Ogallala Aquifer's dwindling waters clean?
That's the question Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist Dennis Gitz is asking about North America's largest aquifer.
I am grateful for this opportunity to address the General Assembly on the emergency we face in the work to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). I thank the President of the General Assembly for organizing this timely debate and the Prime Minister of Finland for joining us to demonstrate his commitment.
More than halfway to 2015, the MDG track record is mixed.
The U.S. and China have agreed to implement a new bilateral food
safety system by initially focusing on four product categories, said
FDA officials who recently returned from an overseas trip.
Ethanol sales in Nebraska hit record high
Nebraska
Ethanol sales in Nebraska hit a record high in December as 77 percent of gasoline sold contained ethanol.
Todd Sneller, administrator of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, said that more Nebraskans are buying ethanol because it's cleaner and less expensive than gasoline.
I am continuously reminded about how farming is a venture for the foolhardy, and those whose supreme goal is to break even.
I am one of those crazy people who believe that food still drives our country. Many of my small farm companions find consolation from the financial pain by reminding themselves that at least they will get a tax break this year.
Rural Crook County residents have banded together to halt new destination resorts from locating in the Central Oregon county, fearing they are losing their grip on their once rural way of life.
The residents recently submitted signatures to county election officials to place a measure on the May 20 primary ballot that would pressure county planners to slap a moratorium on resorts.
Natural Awakenings magazine, May 2008
Clearing a few trails and cleaning up storm damage was about all the Amber-Oliver family ever did to maintain their wooded 20 acres in Stanwood.
That's changing after they signed up for a forest stewardship class that could potentially save them thousands and help them make their forested land healthier and more beautiful.
Now it's claimed that Brenda Martin remains in a Mexican prison because her former employer, con man Alyn Waage -- currently in a U.S. prison for masterminding a massive Internet fraud scheme -- didn't pay a bribe to a Mexican prosecutor.
Nathaniel Bolden and Cheryl Schultz were thankful for the free baked beans and hot dogs they ate Wednesday at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
Both homeless and without jobs, the two cleaned and mopped the floor to show
their gratitude.
BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) - China's Ministry of Commerce voiced regret on Thursday over Australia's initiation of investigation into the alleged dumping and subsidizing of toilet paper imported from China.
With grain prices soaring, farm income at record highs and the federal budget deficit widening, the subsidies and handouts given to American farmers would seem vulnerable to a serious pruning.
But it appears that farmers, at least so far, have succeeded in stopping the strongest effort in years to shrink the government safety net that doles out billions of dollars to them each year.
Phnom Penh, 27 March: Prime Minister Samdech Akkak Moha Sena Padei Decho Hun Sen Wednesday [26 March] ordered halt on rice exports to neighbouring Thailand and Vietnam for two months.
The World Trade Organisation has ruled against the United States and Canada in a row with the European Union over an EU ban on beef treated with growth hormones, a European official told AFP on Friday.
The WTO has found that penalities imposed by the US and Canada on some EU products in retaliation for the EU ban are illegal, said the official, who asked not to be named.