Several ideas to boost ethanol are floating around Capitol Hill, and action seems likely, especially with a new farm bill brewing that could increase subsidies for ethanol production. Wagoner and other executives asked Congress to pressure oil companies and filling stations to add more E85-capable pumps, a process that has been slowed by a technical dispute over safety standards. The meeting with Bush and the chiefs of each company, tentatively set for March 26, will be the latest in a...

ConAgra recalled all its peanut butter last month after federal health officials linked cases of salmonella infection with the consumption of the company's products. Peanut butter typically generates about $150 million in annual sales, but the company will forgo a large chunk of those sales through the rest of this fiscal year. But the recall and efforts to prevent similar problems will keep the company's Peter Pan peanut butter out of stores at least through late May. The Omaha-based...

women - those with an unusually high risk of developing breast cancer - should get annual MRIs as well as mammograms, the American Cancer Society advises in new guidelines. Report: More Than 5 Million Living With Alzheimer's More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, a 10 percent increase since the last Alzheimer's Association estimate five years ago - and a count that supports the long-forecast dementia epidemic as the population grays. Report: More Than 5 Million...

Tyson spokesperson Gary Mickelson said the company has received five inquires about the sweepstakes, including one call from an Oklahoma bank that had a customer wanting to deposit one of the checks. residents are receiving fraudulent notification letters claiming they've won $2 million in a Tyson sweepstakes that does not exist. People receiving the package are then asked in the letter to deposit the check to cover "award costs" and then send the Canadian company a personal check for...

While the University of Illinois has long warned farmers of the risks associated with planting early, it is revisiting its past research that the best time for planting corn in the northern half of Illinois is in the last week of April. Illinois farmers are ready for the corn planting race to begin. You need to keep that start date in mind if you're using it to cover any frost or issues related to stand establishment. For the past two years, the University of Illinois has been conducting...