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Updated: 3/22/2010

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Rising dollar hits prices of many commodities

NEW YORK (AP) -- A rising dollar hit prices of many commodities Friday after concerns about the global economy pushed up demand for safe assets. More questions about the Greek government's financial problems and a surprise interest rate increase in India increased demand for the doll ...

Sunday, March 21, 2010 4:29 PM

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Port Townsend farmer pleads guilty to bank robbery

SEATTLE (AP) -- A Port Townsend farmer apparently had a secret life as a bank robber. Michael Fenter, owner of Compass Rose Farm, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Cou ...

Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:28 AM

Contest promotes fruits, vegetables

A nonprofit organization that promotes healthy eating is urging fruit and vegetable producers and sellers to promote their own products through a nationwide contest. The Produce ...

Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:09 AM

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Beet growers savor ruling

The sugar beet industry expressed relief after a federal judge on March 16 denied an effort to block the use of genetically engineered seeds this season. "We're excited ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:08 AM

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Critics offer competing theories about antitrust

Rancher Wade King is worried about the bottleneck in the beef industry. Only a handful of meat companies stand between ranchers and consumers, giving beef packers undue ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM

Livestock

Feed lot bill no longer limits access to records

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Cattle feed lot operators failed to limit public access to state inspection reports that determine whether operators are safely getting rid of their ...

Sunday, March 21, 2010 4:29 PM

Environmental group sues over grouse ruling

An environmental group has sued the Department of the Interior over its sage grouse ruling. In response to the department's decision that protection for the sage grouse is "w ...

Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:09 AM

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Critics offer competing theories about antitrust

Rancher Wade King is worried about the bottleneck in the beef industry. Only a handful of meat companies stand between ranchers and consumers, giving beef packers undue ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM

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NRCS announces $16 million grouse initiative

The sage grouse isn't listed as an endangered species, but federal officials hope to help ranchers protect the bird's habitat and avoid that fate. "We have a window of t ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM

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Family research team finds niche

RUPERT, Idaho -- When Terry Miller was a young professor at Ohio State University, his father developed health problems and asked if he would consider coming back to work on ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM

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Vilsack: Climate bill can benefit ag

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week renewed the argument that climate legislation can be crafted to benefit agriculture. Legislation can be crafted to "avoi ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM

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Lab speeds wheat breeding

PULLMAN, Wash. -- Kulvinder Gill can't speed up time, but he can speed up the work of wheat breeders at the new Washington State University doubled haploid laboratory. N ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM

Noted wheat breeder joins French co-op

A leader in Pacific Northwest wheat breeding is leaving Oregon State University. OSU wheat breeder Jim Peterson in May will become vice president of research for France- ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:09 AM

Energy

Christmas Valley wants sagebrush, not solar panels

By KATE RAMSAYER Associated Press CHRISTMAS VALLEY, Ore. -- When Gary Perkins heard that solar companies were buying nearby fields and planning to fill them with commerc ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:08 AM

Small wind turbines offered Iowa farmers

MEYER, Iowa (AP) -- Klapperich Farm Systems Inc. of Meyer is installing smaller-scale wind turbines to generate electricity at several hog confinements in the Meyer and ...

Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:49 AM

Planes may fly mostly on biofuels with 10 years

By ARTHUR MAXAssociated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Within a decade, passenger planes will be flying on jet fuel largely made from plants -- flax, marsh grass, eve ...

Friday, March 19, 2010 7:49 AM

U. of Ill. studies nematodes in biofuel crops

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- University of Illinois researchers say that a common crop parasite called a nematode has been found in large numbers on two plants being grown to make bi ...

Friday, March 19, 2010 11:09 AM

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