Market News and Review During Tuesday's short session, soybeans regained some of what was lost on Monday. The market was given a boost by Egypt buying 114,000 tons of U.S. soybeans. Another 185,000 tons were sold to unknown destinations. ...
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While climate change negotiators struggle to agree on ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they have paid inadequate attention to other greenhouse gases associated with livestock, according to an analysis by an international ...
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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists recently provided 2014 projections for major commodities produced in Texas, with many pointing to past drought conditions as a key factor in making or breaking a crop. The Plains region of ...
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There's a lot of bearish news for corn lately. But, there's hope for the bulls in the hog business. No, it's not going to get any easier for you to add value to your grain by feeding a few hogs on your place like what was the case in ...
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Sino Agro Food, a China-based food company focused on developing, producing and distributing agricultural products, has formed a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Sino Agro Food Sweden Aktiebolag (SIAFS), in Sweden. The latest subsidiary, ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA says that its cadmium telluride thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules will power four solar energy plants in France, with a combined capacity of 48MW. Developed and owned by independent renewable energy ...
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Yauk's Specialty Meats of Windsor, Colo., is expanding a previous recall to include an additional product that was produced under unsanitary conditions. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said the ...
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US-based Yauk's Specialty Meats has expanded its recall that was issued on 9 December and 12 December 2013 to include additional products that were produced under insanitary conditions, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food ...
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If you can correctly project U.S. acreage, China demand, South America's production, and U.S. livestock feed demand, experts say that you could tell the world where the corn and soybean prices will go in 2014. Without knowing those ...
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After overcoming a recession, drought, and liquidation of many herds in the past two years, cash cattle prices finally moved higher this fall. Factors such as small cattle numbers, a favorable demand base, and lower feed prices have sent ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the final version of a voluntary plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals. Antibiotics are added to the feed or drinking water of cattle, hogs, poultry and other ...
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Trelleborg AB has received the “Silver Ears 2013” innovation award for its ProgressiveTraction technology at Agribex 2013 agricultural exhibition in Brussels, Belgium. The show’s innovations awards honor and recognize ...
One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed-and he's not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks ...
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The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) in the UK has identified the presence of livestock-associated Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in poultry on a farm in East Anglia, England. The agency ...
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After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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