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Corn Growers say 'Don't Blame Farmers For High Cost Of Food'

Corn Growers say 'Don't Blame Farmers For High Cost Of Food'

Americas 20 Oct 2006

20/10/2006 Farmers are trying to avoid being unfairly blamed for higher food prices. The American Corn Growers Association says it's warning consumers to be on the alert for what it calls "possible price gouging by food processors." The…
CAFO proposal - complete with smell test - passed

CAFO proposal - complete with smell test - passed

Americas 20 Oct 2006

By Teresa Auch CHRONICLE TRIBUNE 20/10/2006 Fixed setback distances for all large animal feeding operations have been tossed in favor of a mathematical formula that would determine distances based on a specific operation. The decision was p…
Hurt: The Price is Right for Corn

Hurt: The Price is Right for Corn

Americas 19 Oct 2006

19/10/2006 Corn growers entered harvest expecting to store their crop and wait for higher market prices. The wait already is over, says Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist. "It looks like we'll have higher prices the re…
Pioneering Ag Research at U of S

Pioneering Ag Research at U of S

Americas 18 Oct 2006

By Rob Carnie DiscoverMooseJaw 18/10/2006 Having seen many parts of the world in his academic life, Dr. Peiqiang Yu chose the University of Saskatchewan as the place to build his distinguished career in animal feed research and development.…
High demand, low yield push corn prices higher

High demand, low yield push corn prices higher

Americas 14 Oct 2006

By Jerry Perkins Des Moines Register 14/10/2006 Corn prices are rising, reflecting increased demand and lower than expected production, said Robert Wisner, Iowa State University Extension economist. At the close of the market Friday, cash c…
Monsanto says new corn could produce bumper crops

Monsanto says new corn could produce bumper crops

Americas 04 Oct 2006

By Jack Kaskey BLOOMBERG NEWS 04/10/2006 Monsanto Co., the world's largest developer of genetically modified crops, said an experimental corn seed that produces drought-tolerant plants may boost yields in dry parts of the U.S. by 40 per…
Gold Kist To Open $70 Million Expansion in Live Oak, Florida

Gold Kist To Open $70 Million Expansion in Live Oak, Florida

Americas 02 Oct 2006

By Goldkist Inc PRESS RELEASE 02/10/2006 ATLANTA: Gold Kist Inc. will celebrate the official opening of the $70 million, 180,000-square-foot expansion of its Live Oak, Fla., poultry processing facility on November 2, 2006 at 10 a.m. The rib…
Paying the Price of Hungry Pigs

Paying the Price of Hungry Pigs

Americas 01 Oct 2006

By Jane Messenger PORK MAGAZINE 01/10/2006 In a perfect world, your pigs would never run out of feed. However, out-of-feed events are a growing problem in nursery and grow/finish facilities. "One of the main issues deals with feed delivery.…
Professor disputes science in chicken litter testimony

Professor disputes science in chicken litter testimony

Americas 21 Sep 2006

By Trish Hollenbeck NORTHWEST ARKANAS TIMES 21/09/2006 A Cambridge-educated professor who has performed extensive research on arsenic chemistry criticized the science done on the part of plaintiffs in a case that claims arsenic in chicken l…
Not just chicken feed

Not just chicken feed

Americas 10 Sep 2006

By Joe Gardyasz THE BUSINESS RECORD 10/09/2006 A few years ago, Bob Riley was thinking of slowing down, maybe retiring. Now, with the potential he sees for his company to add value to the biofuel industry, he can't wait to get to work i…
Ethanol industry changing traditional flow of corn production

Ethanol industry changing traditional flow of corn production

Americas 07 Sep 2006

By Holly JensenETHANOL PRODUCER 07/09/2006 The rapid build up of the ethanol industry has done more than bring profit to producers and open up marketing opportunities for corn farmers. It has changed the traditional pattern of grain flows. …
Christensen Farms and Cargill Team Up In Grain Marketing

Christensen Farms and Cargill Team Up In Grain Marketing

Americas 01 Sep 2006

01/09/2006 In addition to the on-farm marketing expertise that grain producers will receive through this new partnership, they will have access to end-user delivery markets in Iowa Falls for both their corn and soybeans. Christensen Farms a…
Canada says feed mill error suspected in BSE case

Canada says feed mill error suspected in BSE case

Americas 25 Aug 2006

CIDRAP NEWS 25/08/2006 procedural error at a feed mill might have resulted in contamination of cattle feed with banned materials and caused Canada's seventh case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, the Canadia…
Biodiesel business brings earth-friendly fuel to Barron County

Biodiesel business brings earth-friendly fuel to Barron County

Americas 23 Aug 2006

By Jeremy Jensen THE CHETEK ALERT 23/08/2006 If you drive a diesel vehicle or use diesel machinery anywhere in Barron County, there is a new company in the area that is committed to making earth-friendly biodiesel fuel available anywhere in…
Ridley Announces Third Straight Year of Earnings Growth and Further Debt Reduction in Fiscal 2006

Ridley Announces Third Straight Year of Earnings Growth and Further Debt Reduction in Fiscal 2006

Americas 21 Aug 2006

By Mike Mitchell MARKET WIRE 21/08/2006 Ridley Inc. (TSX: RCL), one of the largest animal nutrition companies in North America, today reported results for its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter and year ended June 30, 2006. All currency figures are…
Redeveloping mill site will have public price tag

Redeveloping mill site will have public price tag

Americas 15 Aug 2006

By Fred Leeson THE OREGONIAN 15/08/2006 Portland development officials heard a sobering financial warning Monday about revamping the old Centennial Mills site in Northwest Portland. Converting the grain mill to new uses probably can't b…
Converted mill offers views

Converted mill offers views

Americas 13 Aug 2006

By Becky Lindhardt THE ENQUIRER 13/08/2006 What's in a name? For the Stockport Mill Inn, its name defines its status as an inn in a renovated mill in the town of Stockport, Ohio. The name, however, cannot describe the natural beauty of …
Portales feed mill changes hands

Portales feed mill changes hands

Americas 12 Aug 2006

By Karl Terry Freedom Newspapers 11/08/2006 Garvey Processing’s feed mill operation in Portales was sold Aug. 1 to a California company that specializes in dairy feed plants. J.D. Heiskell Co., headquartered in Tulare, Calif., announced i…
Possible Mill Mix-Up Spurred Livestock Feed Recall

Possible Mill Mix-Up Spurred Livestock Feed Recall

Americas 11 Aug 2006

By Bill Johnson Dow Jones 11/08/2006 Thousands of tons of livestock feed are being recalled in the U.S. by producers and distributors due to the "possibility" that "a small amount" of banned bovine material - likely meant to go into poultry…
Livestock Producers Should Be Wary Of Nitrate Possibility in Corn

Livestock Producers Should Be Wary Of Nitrate Possibility in Corn

Americas 11 Aug 2006

Cattle Network 11/08/2006 COLBY, Kan. -- This year many dryland cornfields will not produce enough grain to warrant combining costs. These fields, however, represent opportunities for cattlemen for silage, hay or grazing, a Kansas State Uni…

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