Grain prices were slipping Monday as forecasts of favorable weather improved the prospects for higher crop yields, leading to concerns that there would be bigger-than-expected supplies at harvest time. There is expected to be a dramatic increase in the acreage of corn planted this season, Glenn adds. He says conditions are expected to be warm, with modest moisture in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma, the key growing areas for hard red winter wheat. The firms that sell agricultural products were...

It s a gold rush everyone wants to get in on, said CBS reporter Cynthia Bowers in a segment examining a possible record year in store for corn growers. Bowers noted the high demand for corn-based ethanol, which will gobble up 25 percent of this year s corn harvest. In addition to corn and retail food prices, CBS might have examined how the anti-free market corn and ethanol subsidies will affect the price of gas at the pumps and a host of other consumer products. The ethanol market is a...

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A recent article published in the April issue of Bay Journal, a publication of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, says America s excessive hunger for ethanol could leave the Chesapeake Bay bloated with excessive nutrients, a situation that could wreak havoc on the fragile ecosystem. Internationally, the ethanol industry has been linked to air and water pollution on a grand scale, as well as deforestation of major rainforests to make way for crops that can be turned into ethanol such as...

According to Harouna Maiga, UMC department of agriculture professor, substituting some of the soybean meal and all of the beet pulp in the animal's diet with mustard bran increased daily milk production by about 4 pounds and did not change milk composition or feed intake. U of M Researcher finds affordable feed substitute for dairy cattle. According to Harouna Maiga, UMC department of agriculture professor, substituting some of the soybean meal and all of the beet pulp in the animal's diet...

To celebrate the launch of KFC zero grams trans fat menu items, the KFC Colonel reached new heights and entered zero gravity, participating in a parabolic flight with the Zero Gravity Corporation to provide him with moments of weightlessness, states a news release. After nearly three years of research, planning, and much anticipation, KFC announced on April 30 that its restaurants nationwide are now serving its classic, finger lickin' good fried chicken with zero grams of trans fat per serving.

Import alert on food products from China widens Elizabeth Weise and Julie Schmit USA Today WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing a new import alert that greatly expands its curtailment of some food ingredients imported from China, authorizing border inspectors to detain ingredients used in everything from noodles to breakfast bars. Import alert on food products from China widens Elizabeth Weise and Julie Schmit USA Today WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration is...

Their solution to the farm crisis of the late 1970s was to lower prices paid to farmers in order to reclaim the export volume of 1973-74 and prosperity would follow. With the approaching 2007 farm bill debate and increased focus on the higher corn demand and prices brought on by expanding ethanol production, it would be helpful to review some facts on farm policy and prices as we move forward. In 2007, those same arguments will once again be answered with the same failed Kool-Aid solution...

A feed mill operated by Christensen Farms the largest family-owned hog company in America and third largest overall grinds 12,000 tons of feed a week and uses 45,000 bushels of corn a day to feed 1.5 million hogs annually. Iowa Select Farms, the nations fourth-largest hog production company, buys 26 million bushels of corn and 225,000 tons of soybean meal a year to feed the hogs it raises in Iowa on its own farms and on the farms of 300 contractors. A modern-day alchemy is brewing on the...