06/05/2009 11:18AM
NEW YORK (AP) - The new documentary "Food, Inc." begins with idyllic scenes of American farmland, panning from golden fields of hay to a solitary cowboy rounding up a herd of cattle. Then the camera zooms in on a grocery cart overflowing with packaged food and rolling down the aisles of a gaudily lit
04/10/2009 08:28AM
Congressional Budget Office Report Says Ethanol Is Minor Factor In Food Price Increases
National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) reports: National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) President Bob Dickey released the following statement on the Congressional Budget Office’s April 8 report, “The Impact of
02/11/2009 08:00AM
The chief threat to Smithfield Foods' fiscal health is not the recession but soaring grain prices, its chief executive officer said Tuesday.
"Profits are not down because of the recession," C. Larry Pope, Smithfield's president and CEO, said in an interview. "We'd be doing just fine" if corn prices
12/31/2008 08:01AM
Farm Management: Purdue Economist Doubts Cash Rental Rates Will Go DownNo business partnership seems unaffected by the recession, including one of agriculture's most common, said Craig Dobbins, a Purdue University agricultural economist. Farmland owners and their tenant farmers might have to negotiate
11/01/2008 10:28AM
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Strength in the dollar and prolonged concern about weak demand has helped push traditional speculative funds into what in recent years has been unfamiliar terrain: A net short position in Chicago Board of Trade corn.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's commitment of traders
10/22/2008 08:59PM
BUTTE, Neb. - The dead were stacked in two piles, 70 cows in one, 30 in another, hidden away in the crevices of this scenic, hilly ranch country where cattle outnumber people.Carl Schuman, a former county prosecutor who owned the cattle with his two bothers, says he knows what happened: They died "mostly
07/08/2008 09:41AM
AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Ala. -- There is only a grain of truth to the charge that the rising cost of corn is causing food prices to spike, according to one Alabama Cooperative Extension economist.
Many consumers assume that a growing demand for corn-derived ethanol and the recent Midwestern floods have
06/27/2008 06:22AM
Sanderson Farms Inc. (SAFM) late Thursday indefinitely delayed construction of a new chicken-processing plant, underscoring the repercussions of skyrocketing corn and soybean costs on the chicken and meat industries.
Sanderson's decision comes a day after Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN) pulled the plug on its
06/23/2008 08:23AM
COLLEGE STATION – Grocery stores and restaurants should be approached like major appliance outlets – with thorough research and planning.
That’s according to Dr. Jenna Anding, Texas AgriLife Extension Service nutrition specialist, who said rising food costs can be cut with thoughtful study.
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