Surging prices for eggs and citrus, plus above-average increases for cereals, sugars, sweets and some dairy products, mean consumers are paying more for breakfast staples at the grocery store and soon could be forking over more cash for omelets at Valley restaurants. Surging prices for eggs and citrus, plus above-average increases for cereals, sugars, sweets and some dairy products, mean consumers are paying more for breakfast staples at the grocery store and soon could be forking over...

The business now has 20,000 square feet of covered plastic production and retail space and another 17,000 square feet of outside storage space. Somewhere along the line Mary Joyer fell in love with farming and making a living off the ground. Joyer says her grandfather made good use of the land, growing potatoes, crops, raising cattle and using horses to work the land. He found the roadside stand a good way to market produce and gradually began to expand the lines of vegetables that he...

Running an industrial poultry farm is nothing like chicken farming in Laos, where Lor helped his parents raise birds by hand. The last property produced eggs for consumption, but this is a breeding operation that leads to the chicken meat sold in markets. To make matters worse, he is convinced his own family - a brother and a sister-in-law who represented both him and the farm's seller - led him astray. He travels far, sometimes up to 100 miles away, to ask relatives and friends who have...

The word means winter blight -- and it strikes fear in herders' hearts because it kills livestock with a vengeance and destroys families' dreams of a better life. That is because the nation's 34 million pasture animals are fundamental to Mongolians' lives in terms of food, transportation, fuel and symbolism. But ask herders in this northern Central Asian nation -- wedged between Russia to the north and China to the east, south and west -- and they'll warn that dzuds don't just menace their...

Bill brings a wealth of personal knowledge about the agriculture industry in South Dakota. They raise corn, soybeans, small grains, hay and have a cow/calf operation. Department of Agriculture. Mike Rounds announced the selection of William Even as the new secretary for the Department of Agriculture. I m please to announce Bill Even has accepted my offer to step in as South Dakota s Secretary of Agriculture, said Rounds. Comments will be approved within 48 hours. His background in...