In addition, some decline in feed use may also be expected due to reduced livestock feeding margins and increased consumption of byproduct feed from ethanol processing. For corn, the persistent high rate of exports, along with large unshipped sales as of April 19, has led to ideas that exports for the current year could exceed the April projection of 2.25 billion bushels. Shipments averaged 42 million bushels per week through the first 33 weeks of the year and need to average 45 million...

It's in his voice as he gently prods one of his Red Limousin cattle out from in front of his range vehicle or quietly recalls the days long ago when he helped make sorghum cane into molasses on a mule-driven press, parts of which still stand near the home where he was born in 1916. It's in his voice as he gently prods one of his Red Limousin cattle out from in front of his range vehicle or quietly recalls the days long ago when he helped make sorghum cane into molasses on a mule-driven...

To test these livelihoods-based relief interventions, during the 2005-2006 droughts in southern Ethiopia, researchers worked with the Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative (PLI), a program based on the creation of a national Livestock Policy Forum by the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and facilitated by the FIC. Boston -- Pastoralist communities in dryland areas of Africa are reliant on livestock as sources of food, income and social support. However drought is...

Consumers, ag producers both pay more in April Monday, April 30, 2007, 3:40 PM by Peter Shinn USDA's latest Agricultural Prices report out Monday afternoon showed livestock producers got better prices in April than they did in March, but crop farmers got less. Consumers, ag producers both pay more in April Monday, April 30, 2007, 3:40 PM by Peter Shinn USDA's latest Agricultural Prices report out Monday afternoon showed livestock producers got better prices in April than they did in March,...

In a joint statement, USDA and FDA said "all of the broilers believed to have been fed contaminated product have since been processed. government said on Monday 38 poultry farms in Indiana were given contaminated feed in early February containing melamine, with some of the chickens likely to have entered the food supply. Melamine has been found in wheat gluten and rice protein imported from China for use in certain pet foods, some of which was later mixed into animal feeds. Because the...