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Cashton hopes green-friendly equals greenbacks

Cashton hopes green-friendly equals greenbacks

Americas 10 Aug 2006

By Greg Hoffman OMC 10/08/2006 The "cash" in Cashton is green in more than one way. Greenbacks certainly are important to those who do business in this small community in Monroe County, but so are the surrounding farms and beautiful green r…
Feed mill prepares to exit Hamburg

Feed mill prepares to exit Hamburg

Americas 09 Aug 2006

By Tim Murphy New Hamburg Independent 09/08/2006 New Hamburg's feed mill is moving out of town. BW Feeds, located on Mill Street in the downtown core, is planning to break ground on their new location next to Stratford Farm Equipment, i…
Seaway unshaken by potential competition

Seaway unshaken by potential competition

Americas 08 Aug 2006

08/08/2006 Two proposed EO plants could produce 600-million litres of ethanol from 62-million bushels of corn The farmers co-operative that has been trying unsuccessfully to land an ethanol plant in Cornwall for more than a decade claims to…
United States Donating Agricultural Commodities to Guatemala

United States Donating Agricultural Commodities to Guatemala

Americas 08 Aug 2006

By Eric Green USINFO 08/08/2006 Washington -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is donating 8,000 metric tons of soybean meal and 2,000 metric tons of tallow (animal fat) to Guatemala to help expand a micro-lending program in the Ce…
Mill turns growth into green

Mill turns growth into green

Americas 07 Aug 2006

By Teresa Auch MARION CHRONICLE TRIBUNE 07/10/2006 MATTHEWS - When the Matthews Feed and Grain mill built its current building in 1996, Brantt Huston said, he never envisioned the plant's future success. "Honestly, when we built the mil…
Turkey pioneer started small

Turkey pioneer started small

Americas 05 Aug 2006

By Nick Ferraro PIONEER PRESS 04/10/2006 George Thurnbeck, one of Minnesota's first commercial turkey growers, died July 27 at his Forest Lake home. He was 94. In 1931, Thurnbeck and his brother Clem bought eight hens and one tom from a…
Catfish processing plant expected to open

Catfish processing plant expected to open

Americas 01 Aug 2006

1st August, 2006: ALABAMA, USA - Southerners love their catfish, whether it's fried, grilled, between bread or in an etouffee. Most of the catfish you eat comes from pond farms across the Southeast and processed at plants in Mississippi…
Canal Seed and Feed to change its focus

Canal Seed and Feed to change its focus

Americas 01 Aug 2006

1st Aug, 2006: Columbia, USA - Dan Wickersham stands in front of Canal Seed and Feed on Mullett Street in Portage. Wickersham, the owner of the business, plans to discontinue selling livestock and poultry feeds. Ann Marie Ames/Daily Registe…
Tyson announces 3rd quarter earnings decline

Tyson announces 3rd quarter earnings decline

Americas 01 Aug 2006

1st Aug, 2006: TEMPERANCEVILLE, USA - Tyson Foods Inc. on Monday announced third quarter setbacks compared to the period last year, including a $79 million drop in overall net income and a chicken segment operating loss of $59 million, alth…
Cargill vows to protect Amazon

Cargill vows to protect Amazon

Americas 25 Jul 2006

25th July, 2006: Sao Paolo - Soy-farming limits dismissed by critics. Responding to environmental protests over the loss of Brazilian rainforest, Cargill and other major soybean processors said Monday that they'll refuse to buy soybeans…
Jamaica Broilers - battered but not bowed

Jamaica Broilers - battered but not bowed

Americas 21 Jul 2006

21st July, 2006: JAMAICA - The Caribbean's largest broiling operations, Jamaica Broilers, had a rough year in 2005, largely due to the hurricanes that have bedeviled the region and efforts to inject a better performance from its fish di…
Poultry Production Impacted by Alternative Fuels Development

Poultry Production Impacted by Alternative Fuels Development

Americas 18 Jul 2006

18th July, 2006: STAUNTON, USA - Demand for corn by a growing world market and the United States’ desire to create alternative fuels helped set the agenda for Monday’s hearing of the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee. The h…
Omega-3 enhanced chickens

Omega-3 enhanced chickens

Americas 18 Jul 2006

18th July, 2006: GUELPH, CANADA - The egg may have come first for omega-3 enriched poultry products, but the chicken isn't far behind. Steven Leeson, a professor in the Animal and Poultry Science faculty at the University of Guelph, has…
Technique makes better chickens: Farmer

Technique makes better chickens: Farmer

Americas 15 Jul 2006

15th July, 2006: ABERDEEN - About 40 people with interest in the poultry industry came from around the Southeast Thursday to Cackleberry Farms in southwest Monroe County to learn about the benefits of a trend in chicken farming called pastu…
Land O'Lakes Canada Forms New Ontario Business

Land O'Lakes Canada Forms New Ontario Business

Americas 06 Jul 2006

6th July, 2006: WELLBURN, ONTARIO - It was announced today that Hutton Farm Supplies, a business unit of the Agronomy Company of Canada, and the Ontario feed division of Land O'Lakes, Inc. have partnered to create a new entity, Land O&#…
USDA changes loan deficiency payment rules

USDA changes loan deficiency payment rules

Americas 04 Jul 2006

4th July 2006, WASHINGTON: Colleen Cashell, executive director of USDA's Farm Service Agency in Washington County, announced what she called "an important change" to 2006 and subsequent crop years' beneficial interest requirements f…
Anti-BSE feed rules widened to include pet food, fertilizers

Anti-BSE feed rules widened to include pet food, fertilizers

Americas 26 Jun 2006

26th June 2006, MONTREAL: Cattle tissues that could transmit mad-cow disease will no longer be allowed in pet foods, chicken feed and fertilizer under new federal rules announced Monday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is tightening rul…
Ethanol plants a blessing and a curse for cattle industry

Ethanol plants a blessing and a curse for cattle industry

Americas 23 Jun 2006

23rd June 2006, IOWA: Cattle lots like this one in Southwest Iowa could benefit from inexpensive, highly nutritious feed from local ethanol plants. However, those plants will likely raise the price of corn, which may prompt some cattle prod…
Guyana poultry producers may need to look at export market

Guyana poultry producers may need to look at export market

Americas 23 Jun 2006

23rd June 2006, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA: The domestic market may be too small to support the expansion of the poultry sector, which has grown over four per cent in five years and President Bharrat Jagdeo said the sector would need to seek export…
IDSA aim for an end to antibiotic use in livestock

IDSA aim for an end to antibiotic use in livestock

Americas 22 Jun 2006

22nd June 2006, WASHINGTON: This week, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA), an organization representing 8,000 infectious disease physicians and scientists, announced it is endorsing the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical…

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