Corn should be planted by mid-May for good yields, and soybeans can be planted as late as June, which could be a fallback plan for farmers if corn doesn't get planted in time. Bob Ray, a senior vice president at the Chicago Board of Trade, said predictions that corn prices will continue to decline because of plentiful supply from a huge harvest must be balanced with increasing demand from the export market. DES MOINES, Iowa An ethanol-fueled boom in prices will prompt American farmers to...

And it really applies to all grains, as prices increase not only in corn which is an important crop for Terra, but wheat soybeans and others as well. coupled with acreage else where in the world is increasing the demand for nitrogen fertilizers, we believe fairly significantly over the last year," said Bennett. The ethanol boom may soon cause problems for the farmers who grow corn, to make the gasoline additive. Fertilizer companies have been at full capacity as farmers plant more corn to...

Dion told an audience in Saskatoon yesterday that gag orders against the wheat board's directors and traceable ballots have little to do with democracy. SASKATOON -- Federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says the recent vote by barley growers on the future of the Canadian Wheat Board is tainted. But a spokesman for federal Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl said it is Dion who is failing to respect democracy.

Stonefruit production is falling because growers are in a vice between rising New Zealand costs and cheaper overseas fruit as new global producers such as China come on stream. In Australia, the new rules mean that by the end of the year, consumers there will be clearly informed where their food comes from, including fresh produce. But a year ago, the New Zealand government vetoed new trans-Tasman rules that would have required country of origin labelling on most food, including fresh...

In early March, Menu Foods recalled 60 million containers of its "cuts and gravy" style wet pet foods, sold under nearly 100 store labels and major brands across North America. That means that even for the loss of a faithful family companion, a successful civil lawsuit would not likely produce much reward, said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond. It is not clear how many pets may have been poisoned by the apparently contaminated food, although anecdotal reports...