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Friday, November 20, 2009

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Dean Foods predicts milk price will top $15 cwt

A major U.S. dairy manufacturer is betting that steadily climbing milk prices will help the company outmaneuver smaller competitors. Dean Foods, a Texas-based processor and distributor, anticipates milk prices will top $15 per hundredweight in 2010, up from about $13 at the end of 2009, a ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 12:34 PM

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Energy

Poet reduces cellulosic ethanol production costs

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, says it is has reduced its cellulosic ethanol production cost during the past year from $4.13 per gallon ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 9:33 AM

Corn mold worries farmers, ethanol producers

JASPER, Ind. (AP) -- Cool, wet fall weather that's caused mold to appear in some of Indiana's corn crop is now creating problems for livestock and ethanol producers. Mol ...

Monday, November 16, 2009 2:19 PM

Wet harvest drying up propane supply

YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- With the wet grain being harvested in South Dakota this year comes another problem: a spike in the demand for propane to dry it. Wet grain mu ...

Monday, November 16, 2009 2:04 PM

Utility, owners, sawmills team up on biomass

As legislators huddle over the fine points of renewable energy, carbon credits and climate change, a Northwest energy company has moved the ball down the field a little fart ...

Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:03 AM

Research Center

St. Louis scientists unravel corn genome

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Scientists have unraveled the DNA of humans and other creatures. Now, a team led by the Genome Center at Washington University in St. Louis has decoded ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 8:49 AM

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Farmer's quest for data takes flight

Robert Blair is taking precision agriculture to new heights. The North Idaho farmer uses a small, unmanned aircraft with a 9-foot wingspan to gather high-resolution aeri ...

Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:18 AM

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Officials warn of invading stink bug

The Oregon Department of Agriculture is advising Pacific Northwest farmers to keep an eye out for insect known to cause problems in Asia and the Eastern United States. T ...

Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:19 AM

Researchers ask: Are caged chickens miserable?

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an ...

Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM

Organic

Urban farmers collide with city rules

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Steve Mann doesn't look like an outlaw as he cheerfully harvests giant rutabagas and luscious lettuce bunches from a friend's garden in Kans ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 11:03 AM

Boulder Valley pupils rejecting healthier lunches

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Schoolchildren in Boulder Valley are giving a thumbs-down to healthier food in the cafeteria. The school district said fewer elementary school stu ...

Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:33 PM

Small farm churns out organic goat cheeses

SWEET HOME, Ore. -- Jan Neilson rarely gets in Mariano Battro's whey. He sometimes gets in hers, but that's why he was hired. Jan and her husband, Larry, produce go ...

Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM

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Safety: fundamental concern

PORTLAND -- Speakers at an organic farm food-safety summit Friday, Nov. 6, said there is no silver bullet and no magic pathogen killer against contamination in raw fruits and ...

Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM

Outdoors

Nevada wildlife officers seek elk poachers

ELKO, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada game wardens are seeking information about two elk poached in northern Elko County near the Idaho line. Nevada Department of Wildlife the cow e ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 3:12 PM

Wyoming sets limits on antler, horn gathering

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission has set an antler and horn gathering season for public land west of the Continental Divide in an ef ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 11:00 AM

Work progresses on wildlife overpass near Elko

WELLS, Nev. (AP) -- State transportation officials say work should be completed by the end of the year on a $1.8 million wildlife overpass in northeast Nevada. Workers t ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 10:59 AM

Island's bison given birth control to control herd

AVALON, Calif. (AP) -- Birth control for bison? That's what conservationists are giving a herd on Santa Catalina Island in an attempt to reduce the population. Females o ...

Friday, November 20, 2009 11:06 AM

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