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White House threatens veto of House farm bill

The White House is threatening to veto the House version of a massive, five-year farm bill, saying food stamp cuts included in the legislation could leave some Americans hungry. The House is preparing to consider the bill this week. The legislation would cut $2 billion annually, or around 3 percent, ...

  • Updated: 4:06 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
FILE - In this June 14, 2011 file photo, slices of a Smithfield boneless ham are displayed in Montpelier, Vt. One of Smithfield Foods Inc.'s largest shareholders, New York-based investment firm Starboard Value LP, said in a letter Monday, June 17, 2013, that a $4.72 billion takeover bid from China's largest meat producer falls short of what the company would be worth if sold off piece by piece. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Starboard says Smithfield sale undervalues company

One of Smithfield Foods Inc.'s largest shareholders says a $4.72 billion takeover bid from China's largest meat producer falls short of what the company would be worth if sold off piece by piece. In a letter to the Smithfield, Va.-based pork producer's board of directors on Monday, the New York-based ...

  • Updated: 2:13 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
Maple syrup producer Mike Jacque taps a tree March 26, 2013 in his sugar bush near Thorp, Wis. Wisconsin's maple syrup production has hit a 20-year high, increasing five-fold from last year when early warm weather cut the season short, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Monday, June 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Shane Opatz)

Wisconsin produces most maple syrup since 1992

Wisconsin's maple syrup production has hit a 20-year high, increasing five-fold from last year when early warm weather cut the season short, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Monday. The state's farmers produced 265,000 gallons of syrup this year, compared to 50,000 gallons in 2012 and 155,000 in 2011. It ...

  • Updated: 1:53 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

Soybeans drop as weather boosts crop prospects

Soybeans dropped as improving weather across the Midwest boosted the outlook for this year's crop. November soybeans fell 12.75 cents, or 1 percent, to $12.855 a bushel Monday. Cold, wet weather forced farmers to delay their soybean planting this spring, keeping prices for the crop higher over the past two ...

  • Updated: 12:59 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

Soybeans drop as weather boosts crop prospects

Soybeans dropped as improving weather across the Midwest boosted the outlook for this year's crop. November soybeans fell 12.75 cents, or 1 percent, to $12.855 a bushel Monday. Cold, wet weather forced farmers to delay their soybean planting this spring, keeping prices for the crop higher over the past two ...

  • Updated: 12:56 p.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
This undated photo courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection, shows a work titled "Le cours du Mississippi ou de St. Louis fameuse riviere de l’Amerique Septentrionale" (The course of the Mississippi, or St. Louis, famed North American river), 1718, by Nicolas de Fer, which will be featured in the exhibit "Pipe Dreams," opening Tuesday, June 18, 2013, and running through Sept. 15, at the Historic New Orleans Collection. (AP Photo/Historic New Orleans Collection)

Exhibit looks at early Louisiana 'Pipe Dreams'

In the early 1700s, France sent thousands of colonists and slaves to Louisiana in the belief that tobacco would refill a treasury drained by wars. That period of envisioning the state as a promised land is the focus of "Pipe Dreams," an exhibit opening Tuesday and running through Sept. 15 ...

  • Updated: 10:54 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. June 14, 2013. Sales equalization is fair Iowa's governor and legislators have rectified a significant inequity by requiring online-only retailers to charge sales tax on Iowa sales. Gov. Terry Branstad signed off on the "e-fairness" legislation, aka House File 625, which levels the retail competition playing field. ...

  • Updated: 9:25 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013

Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers

Lincoln Journal Star. June 15, 2013. Use common sense on immigration Remember what Sen. Mike Johanns said about the farm bill, stalled in Congress now for long months? When the Senate passed its version of the legislation, again, Johanns allowed as to how the bill was not the one he ...

  • Updated: 8:35 a.m. Monday, June 17, 2013
FILE - This Aug. 9, 1999 file photo shows U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson is shown during an American Bar Association panel discussion in Atlanta. Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a Microsoft antitrust case and declared the software company a monopoly, has died. The death was confirmed Sunday, June 16, 2013 by Jackson's wife, Patricia. She says her husband died of cancer at the couple's home in Compton, Md. He was 76. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, file)

US judge in Microsoft antitrust case dies at 76

Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died. Jackson died at his home in Compton, Md., his wife Patricia told The Associated Press on Sunday. He was 76 and ...

  • Updated: 7:17 p.m. Sunday, June 16, 2013
In this May 28, 2013 photo, Donaldo Ruiz speaks during an interview as his daughter Cenid Ruiz, background, left, prepares a meal at their home in Morroa, in Colombia's northwestern Sucre state. Ruiz and his relatives were among 40 families who abandoned their farm in Pechilin nearly a decade ago caught in the crossfire between leftist rebels, paramilitary groups and security forces. In April a court ordered that the land, that had gone through the hands of different owners before ending in the hands of a Venezuelan businessman, must return to the families. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia's long-elusive goal: land reform

Caught in the crossfire between far-right militias and leftist rebels, 40 families abandoned the farm they shared in the foothills of Colombia's Montes de Maria range. The land repeatedly switched hands before being sold to a businessman. Nearly a decade later, a court in April returned the 770-acre (310-hectare) farm, ...

  • Updated: 3:14 p.m. Sunday, June 16, 2013
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