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Dueling amendments to expand and to reverse SNAP cuts fail
Opposing efforts to reverse and to expand food assistance cuts both failed on the Senate floor Tuesday. While Senator Kristin Gillibrand from New York pleaded to restore $4 billion worth of cuts to the food stamp program, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts... Read the full story...
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Wisconsin gets some gypsy moth spraying done
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture started spraying for the gypsy moth Tuesday morning. DATCP reports spraying was completed as scheduled in Rock and Green/Dane counties and at several sites in Lafayette and Iowa counties. Under a separate... Read the full story...
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CWT accepts nine export requests
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted nine requests for export assistance from Bongards Creameries, Dairy Farmers of America and Northwest Dairy Association (Darigold) to sell 3.016 million pounds of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese to... Read the full story...
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Missouri grower says big jump in corn
Missouri corn planting took a big step this past week amid warm, dry weather. Corn planting jumped 42 percentage points to 70 percent complete. That’s 21 days behind last year but just four days behind normal. Past president of the Missouri Corn... Read the full story...
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Magnochi named World Dairy Expo cattle show manager
World Dairy Expo announcing the new Dairy Cattle Show Manager is Ann Marie Magnochi. The Washington State University graduate grew up on her family’s purebred dairy farm at Carnation, Washington. She is active in Two Sisters’ Dairy, home to... Read the full story...
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Illinois Soybean pleased with WRDA movement
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) overwhelmingly passed the Senate last week and Illinois Soybean Association President Bill Wykes tells Brownfield that’s a positive step for growers. This WRDA bill seeks private and public investments... Read the full story...
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Minnesota salmonella outbreak linked to raw milk cheese
Just as the trial of a Wisconsin farmer has brought the raw milk issue to the forefront comes news at least 25 people in the Twin Cities were made ill by consuming a raw milk cheese. A salmonella outbreak was first reported in April and the... Read the full story...
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Mixed finish for corn, soybeans, wheat
Soybeans were mixed with July up on commercial buying and the other months down on technical and speculative selling. The near term supply remains tight and there’s market chatter about shipping delays out of Argentina. However, even if planting... Read the full story...
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Grassley continues push for payment limit reform
Debate on the farm bill continues today in the Senate. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says his farm bill priorities are to protect crop insurance and to keep his payment limit reform intact. Grassley wants to establish a per farm cap of 50-thousand... Read the full story...
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Senators seek sugar reform, growers caution rations
Illinois Senator Ron Kirk (R) and two Senate colleagues Jeanne Shaheen (D) of New Hampshire and Pat Toomey (R) of Pennsylvania are introducing a Sugar Reform amendment they say contains common sense reforms for the U.S. sugar program. They want... Read the full story...
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Cattle futures close sharply higher on Tuesday
Feedlot attitudes received a shot in the arm on Tuesday due to the sharply higher close in the cattle futures complex. Triple digit gains dominated both the live and feeder pits, adding credence to the technical significance of Monday’s reversals.... Read the full story...
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Move to repeal so-called ‘Monsanto Protection Act’
An Oregon lawmaker says he will introduce an amendment to the Senate Farm Bill to repeal the so-called ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ which was included in the continuing budget resolution in March which Congress passed to avoid a government... Read the full story...
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Premium Standard Farms now Murphy-Brown
Premium Standard Farms (PSF) in northern Missouri has taken the name of Smithfield Foods’ subsidiary Murphy-Brown, LLC. Murphy-Brown is the hog production branch of Smithfield. At the first of this year, PSF took the name Murphy-Brown of Missouri,... Read the full story...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: May 21, 2013
Jul. corn closed at $6.40, down 9 and 1/2 cents Jul. soybeans closed at $14.78 and 1/4, up 13 and 3/4 cents Jul. soybean meal closed at $438.70, up $3.40 Jul. soybean oil closed at 49.48, up 28 points Jul. wheat closed at $6.80 and 1/2, down 4 and... Read the full story...
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Illinois added to PEDV list
Illinois has joined Iowa and Indiana on the list of states with confirmed cases of PEDV—porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. Discovery of the virus was announced by USDA late last week. It’s the first time the disease has been found in the U.S.... Read the full story...
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Food for Thought Challenge winners named
The Ohio Small Grains Marketing Program (OSGMP) has named the Ridgedale and Ridgemont FFA Chapters winners in the Food for Thought Challenge. The statewide competition is designed for FFA chapters to develop a program to increase awareness about the... Read the full story...
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Ohio Senator Brown on WRDA
Last week the Senate passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). In an interview with Brownfield, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown describes WRDA as being as important as other government supported programs. “Because it is clear, as important as... Read the full story...
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Great Lakes Sheep Show and Sale
Sheep producers from across the country will be heading to Wooster, Ohio this Saturday and Sunday for the Great Lakes Show and Sale at the Wayne County Fairgrounds. Show Manager Greg Deakin says several breeds will be available to those producers... Read the full story...
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Tuesday midday cash livestock markets
We probably will not see cash cattle trade this early in the week as few packers will field even preliminary bids. Most feedlot operators will also remain guarded in their asking prices. A few operators have priced showlists around 127.00 in the... Read the full story...
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