Brazil's soybean crop will rise to a record 57 million tons, topping a February estimate of 56 million tons and the 55 million tons harvested a year ago, the USDA said. Soybean prices dropped even after the government said plantings may fall 11 percent to 67. Driscoll reiterated his buy recommendation for Archer Daniels Midland, the world's biggest ethanol producer, which forecast corn prices will to fall to $3 a bushel in the fourth quarter. There were more than 47,000 May futures to sell...

Department of Agriculture, an estimated 61 percent of the corn and 89 percent of the soybeans planted in 2006 were biotech varieties. While the bulk of GM crops are destined to become animal feed, some of the bounty ends up in kitchens, restaurants and vending machines. Genetically engineered ingredients It's estimated, he added, that as much as 70 percent of processed foods contain an ingredient that has been genetically engineered. The gene for Bacillus thuringiensis, a toxin commonly...

Manure sales are up, as more grain and vegetable farmers turn to animal waste as an alternative to higher-priced commercial fertilizer, say state agriculture regulators. The market also has grown because of the emergence of large livestock farms, which generate an abundant supply of manure. The price of nitrogen fertilizer, for example, has more than doubled in the past four years, in part because of the rising cost of natural gas needed to make it. Ben Puck, who has operated a hauling...

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I wanted to see what he said to you folks so I turned on the news and all day yesterday -you were probably in meetings so you didn't catch it-but they were leading the news with the fact that the President of the United States talked to the beef industry or the cattlemen. I wanted to see what he said to you folks so I turned on the news and all day yesterday -you were probably in meetings so you didn't catch it-but they were leading the news with the fact that the President of the United...