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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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