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Poultry producers across California will pay an extra $150 million to feed their birds this year, because corn prices have nearly doubled in the past 12 months. The farm group Western United Dairymen says farmers have been struggling to cope with corn costs, which have risen in part because of demand for ethanol production. Corn is an important part of the feed mix for milk cows, so Western United says more dairy farmers will plant corn themselves, to try to shield themselves from...

Youth hone livestock judging skills Goats a surprise 4-H wild card By Joel Banner Baird/staff jbaird@newsleader.com MIDDLEBROOK A ripple of nerves swept through the small crowd in the parking lot: There would be goats at the Northwest District 4-H livestock judging. Youth hone livestock judging skills Goats a surprise 4-H wild card By Joel Banner Baird/staff jbaird@newsleader.com MIDDLEBROOK A ripple of nerves swept through the small crowd in the parking lot: There would be goats at the...

For the whites who lived there for generations, the questions in many of their minds were why the Hmong wanted the farms and how they could afford them. Lor's sister-in-law, acting as their real estate agent, translates some key pages of their application for a government-backed loan to buy a 30-acre commercial egg farm in nearby Decatur, Ark. In the country, woolly hills can sprawl for several hundred acres, interrupted only by long rows of metal chicken houses. He and his wife sit in...

Margie Lee, a professor in the University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine, said her findings suggest that when poultry arrive at farms, they already harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which may be acquired as they're developing in their eggs. Margie Lee, a professor in the University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine, said her findings suggest that when poultry arrive at farms, they already harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which may be acquired as they're...