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Thursday, September 02, 2010

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Sugar beets are irrigated June 29 near Twin Falls, Idaho. Global sugar production is expected to increase 8 percent during the 2010-11 marketing year, according to USDA projections.

Bio-beet rules due in months

Federal regulators say they will decide by year's end on rules regulating production of biotech sugar beets for the next two seasons. Unregulated production of Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beets was banned last month by a federal judge. USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service s ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:39 PM

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Dairy

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DNA tests incriminate foul fowl

DNA evidence has been used to solve a mystery on an Oregon dairy in a case of mistaken manure identity. It turns out the cows weren't the culprit. It was the geese all along ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:57 AM

Dairy groups push back on federal rules

Dairy industry observers say federal agencies are working on several regulations that will impact dairymen. Chris Galen, director of communications for National Milk Produce ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:57 AM

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Wine in feed improves price for cattle

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Western Canadian beef producers have found a novel way of putting the "bar" in barbecue. Angus cattle in British Columbia's Okanagan wine ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:02 AM

Vermont cheese plant gets grant, will create 55 jobs

SWANTON, Vt. (AP) -- A Swanton cheese plant that closed earlier this year is set to reopen with a new owner thanks to almost $385,000 in assistance from the state of Vermont. ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:37 AM

Idaho

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Luck, planning help growers cope with closure

While lock maintenance on the Columbia and Snake rivers will force some growers transporting crops to Portland's port to switch from barges to truck and rail, industry represen ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:10 AM

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Bio-beet rules due in months

Federal regulators say they will decide by year's end on rules regulating production of biotech sugar beets for the next two seasons. Unregulated production of Monsanto's Ro ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:39 PM

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Barge line urges shippers to plan ahead for closure

The linchpin of the Columbia-Snake transportation system is Tidewater Barge Lines, which expects to lose about 85 percent of its total revenue during the four-month river closu ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:56 AM

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FFA stars align for hay farmer

Gabe Flick was just 14 when he bought his first swather. He found the old machine in the weeds at a neighbor's dairy and agreed to work off the debt. It would only take a fe ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:39 AM

Nevada

Nevada group launches phone campaign against food tax

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- A conservative group is launching an automated phone campaign against the Nevada Assembly's Republican minority leader for suggesting the state conside ...

Wednesday, September 01, 2010 5:09 PM

Group seeks injunction to block Ruby Pipeline

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- An environmental group is seeking an emergency injunction to block construction of a gas pipeline between Wyoming and Oregon. The Center for ...

Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:28 AM

BLM says dead foal not shot as advocates suspected

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Holes in the carcass of a young foal found near a wild horse roundup in northeast California and Nevada were the work of scavenger birds not gunshot wounds as ...

Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:09 PM

Mexico, US talking about Colorado River water

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A powerful Easter Sunday earthquake along the Mexico border has had ripple effects in Nevada, spurring international talks about future use of the Colorado Riv ...

Monday, August 16, 2010 1:38 PM

Oregon

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Luck, planning help growers cope with closure

While lock maintenance on the Columbia and Snake rivers will force some growers transporting crops to Portland's port to switch from barges to truck and rail, industry represen ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:10 AM

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Bio-beet rules due in months

Federal regulators say they will decide by year's end on rules regulating production of biotech sugar beets for the next two seasons. Unregulated production of Monsanto's Ro ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:39 PM

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Barge line urges shippers to plan ahead for closure

The linchpin of the Columbia-Snake transportation system is Tidewater Barge Lines, which expects to lose about 85 percent of its total revenue during the four-month river closu ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:56 AM

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Brothers build pumpkin empire

HUBBARD, Ore. -- Dylan Wells, 21, and his brother Darren, 19, may grow and sell miniature pumpkins, but there is nothing small about the way they do business. The brothers r ...

Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:54 AM

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