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Rising consumer demands aids organic industry sway
The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer demand. That's not going over well with everyone in Congress. Tensions between conventional and organic agriculture boiled over this week during a late-night House Agriculture Committee debate on ...
Could Tobacco Be the Next Biofuel?
Biofuel researchers at UC Berkeley may keep the tobacco industry from going up in smoke. Scientists are engineering tobacco plants to produce oils that can serve as biofuels to power airplanes, cars, trucks and other machines. (May 17)
BC-Markets-At-A-Glance
A snapshot of major stock and commodities market indicators Thursday: New York Stock Exchange 1,207 advances, 1,836 declines Most Active: Bk of Amer 13.36 —0.08 Comp Sales: 3,411,801,869 Arca Comp Sales: 855,092,278 Nasdaq Stock Market 1,058 advances, 1,411 declines Most Active: Cisco Sys 23.887 +2.677 Nasdaq Sales: 1,894,510,917 Major Indexes ...
Former General Mills CEO Kinney dies at age 96
E. Robert Kinney, a former chief executive of General Mills who earlier in his career was instrumental in popularizing fish sticks, has died. He was 96. A statement by General Mills says Kinney died last week in Arizona. Kinney was a food company executive for most of his career, including ...
Relocated deer adapting in southwest Washington
More than a month after an elaborate multi-agency operation moved some three dozen endangered Columbian white-tailed deer to protected habitat in Clark County, the animals are adapting to their new surroundings. Now wildlife officials turn their attention to the next phase of the unusual project: keeping track of the deer ...
Gold futures fall for a sixth straight day
The price of gold fell for a sixth day after billionaire investor George Soros cut his holdings in the precious metal. June gold fell $9.30, or 0.7 percent, to $1,386.90 an ounce. Soros disclosed in a regulatory filing late Wednesday that he reduced his holdings in an exchange-traded gold fund ...
Puerto Rico faces lowest coffee production ever
Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once burgeoning industry amid a deep economic crisis. Farmers produced some 80,000 pounds (39,900 kilograms) of coffee during the most recent harvest, which represents ...
Puerto Rico faces lowest coffee production ever
Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once burgeoning industry. Agriculture Secretary Myrna Comas says farmers produced some 80,000 pounds (36,000 kilograms) of coffee during the most recent harvest, which represents ...
Deep divide in Congress over domestic food aid
The House and Senate Agriculture Committees laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink food aid and alter the way people qualify for it. The two chambers are far apart on how much the $80 billion-a-year program ...
Rewards grow in North Dakota cattle killing cases
Donations from the North Dakota Stockmen's Association have boosted reward funds for information leading to convictions in two high-profile cattle-killing cases on opposite sides of the state. The reward in a Richland County case in May 2012 in which 13 cows and a calf were shot and killed in a ...
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