Profits for U.S. farmers will plunge more than expected this year, dropping 38 percent from 2008 as the recession erodes demand for crops, livestock and dairy products, the government said. Net farm income will sink to a seven-year low of $54 billion, ...
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture will step up inspections and craft new guidelines to reduce outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, a presidential working group said yesterday. The measures include more USDA ...
Wheat prices were inflated by index investors, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission should enforce limits on positions to curb speculation, a congressional investigation reported. Sen. Carl Levin said the Chicago Board of Trade needs to ...
If you would like to bookmark this article you will need to Login to your tulsaworld.com account close The less-than-comprehensive system creates national security concerns. Published: 5/6/2009 2:24 AM Last Modified: 5/6/2009 2:24 AM A sketchy ...
If you would like to bookmark this article you will need to Login to your tulsaworld.com account close Published: 4/29/2009 2:23 AM Last Modified: 4/29/2009 3:56 AM The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will conduct its first wide-scale ...
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- Rex Woollen grows corn and soybeans. In 2007, the Wilcox, Nebraska, farmer started cultivating a new commodity: carbon. By not tilling his 800 acres, Woollen by some estimates keeps 470 tons of carbon per year in the ground ...
Walter Lukken of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission aims to keep the markets functioning correctly. (Andrew Councill - Bloomberg News) Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be ...
Californian meat packer Westland/Hallmark Meat Co has recalled 65.05 million kilograms of beef products described as unfit for human food by the United States Department of Agriculture. It is the country's largest meat recall on record, Bloomberg ...
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