Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, a subsidiary of Jarden Corporation, announced new 3-year pacts with the Australian Baseball League (ABL) and Baseball Australia, establishing Rawlings as the official baseball, batting helmet and catchers' ...
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Tyson Foods, Inc. a Sedalia, Mo., establishment, is recalling approximately 33,840 pounds of mechanically separated chicken products that may be contaminated with a Salmonella Heidelberg strain, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food ...
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By Robert L. Kallenbach Winter cover crops on corn and soybean acres are a natural fit for crop-and-beef farms. Cover crops offer beef profit potential for the time between fall crop harvest and spring planting, says Rob Kallenbach. He ...
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Miscanthus, above, is one of two bioenergy grasses being examined in a new University of Missouri Extension publication Producers considering growing switchgrass or miscanthus as bioenergy crops can gain some financial advice from a new ...
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Monday's Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.34 and 1/2, up 1 and 3/4 cents Jan. soybeans clocsed at $13.26 and 3/4, up 23 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $446.90, up $11.70 Jan. soybean oil closed at 37.57, ...
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A new report on farmer perspectives on climate and agriculture, gathered in a 2012 survey of nearly 5,000 farmers from 11 Corn Belt states, presents survey results by watershed. "Farmer Perspectives on Agriculture and Weather Variability ...
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An agricultural economist with the University of Missouri says demand will play a key role in the profitability of pork producers throughout 2014. As the result of dramatically lower feed costs and stable live hog prices U.S. pork ...
A New Mexico hearings officer says the state should deny a wastewater discharge permit for Valley Meat in Roswell, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says it will get back to Rains Natural Meats in Gallatin once it decides if ...
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The all-new GMC Canyon has been revealed a day ahead of its official Detroit auto show debut, aiming to set new standards for refinement in the US market’s mid-size truck segment. Based on the new Chevrolet Colorado that debuted at ...
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Flu season continues to tighten its grip on the United States, with 35 states now experiencing widespread influenza activity, federal officials reported Friday. The flu seems to be hitting young and middle-aged adults the hardest this ...
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Women who completed therapy experienced significant improvement in urinary incontinence, defecatory dysfunction and pelvic pain One in three women suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), a range of symptoms which include bladder and ...
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Soybeans were higher on fund and commercial buying, along with spillover from corn. 2013 soybean production was up on the year and larger than expected at 3.29 billion bushels, while quarterly stocks were up on the year, but ending stocks ...
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Although the trade was expecting a slight increase, USDA's January supply and demand report (WASDE) trimmed the size of the 2013 corn crop by 64 million bushels to 13.925 billion. They increased the number of acres harvested by 0.5 million, ...
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Soybeans were mixed ahead of Friday's USDA numbers. USDA's expected to report a big crop Friday, but that may be moderated by an increase in their export estimate, with the reports out at Noon Eastern/11 AM Central. China bought more U.S. ...
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According to recent statistics, more than 175 million tweets are sent daily, and 11 accounts are created every second on Twitter. One celebrity who boasts the highest amount of global subscribers is singer Lady Gaga who enjoys more than 40 ...
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