Cattle were driven in one door, weighed, paraded across the arena floor and herded out another door, with buyers bidding as they passed. The photographer was standing directly in front of railroad tracks that ran only a few feet from the store, where men unloaded livestock from Chicago and farther west. Hoober walked into the sparkling new Commerce Bank branch on Lititz Pike, 80-year-old memories of his father and grandfather instantly came to mind. Eric Warfel, Commerce regional vice...

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Cattle producers have always been an independent lot, including when they're trying to get together on public policy. This circus could not come at a worse time for cattle producers who believe their views are not being represented by NCBA, which has 29,000 members to the 15,000 members R-CALF said it had at the beginning of the year. Internal strife leaves cattle group vulnerable to opposition. NCBA has opposed the meat labeling plan, which was enacted by Congress in 2002 but never...

The ailment has killed off tens of thousands of honeybee colonies in Iowa and at least 20 other states, threatening the livelihood of commercial beekeepers. Theories about its cause include environmental change, malnutrition, pathogens, mites, pesticide contamination, disease or genetically modified crops. They pollinate crops as varied as California's almonds and the alfalfa that beef cattle eat, Ennis said. There is a tomato that has a gene in it from an Artic fish to help the tomato...

Democrats gave the back of the hand to the biggest new idea in the president's State of the Union speech, a proposal to cap the highly regressive deduction for employer-paid health insurance and use the savings to subsidize health care for the poor and uninsured. Democrats gave the back of the hand to the biggest new idea in the president's State of the Union speech, a proposal to cap the highly regressive deduction for employer-paid health insurance and use the savings to subsidize health...