For example, grants can be used to switch to organic production, process raw commodities to a finished product and then convert farm crops into renewable energy sources. These grants are a vital tool to help support rural businesses, create new markets for agricultural products and help the United States become more energy independent, Johanns said in a press release. Independent producers, agriculture producer groups, farmer or rancher cooperatives or majority-controlled producer-based...

Posted by The Oregonian April 30, 2007 15:13PM Categories: Breaking News Slide up to your dinner table tonight with culinary relief: Oregon-raised beef and poultry carries little risk of being tainted with the same industrial chemical at the heart of the pet food recall. Posted by The Oregonian April 30, 2007 15:13PM Categories: Breaking News Slide up to your dinner table tonight with culinary relief: Oregon-raised beef and poultry carries little risk of being tainted with the same...

Thweatt Industrial Park, citizens and government officials have raised questions in regards to the economic and environmental impact the facility could have. Other concerns previously expressed by city and county officials, as well as Lake Martin area residents, involved the economic repercussions of the plant. The Boyceville facility produces 50 million gallons annually and covers only 18 of the 140 acres purchased for the plant. As it stands, Area Ethanol proposed to build a $135 million...

soybeans, along with large unshipped sales, suggest that exports for the year might exceed the current projection of 1.08 billion bushels," said Good. Shipments averaged 42 million bushels per week through the first 33 weeks of the year and need to average 45 million per week for the last 19 weeks of the year to reach the current projection. soybean crop will likely be based on the NASS report of planting intentions, the five-year average planted to harvested acreage ratio by states, and a...

Kelly Morgan April 29, 2007 Print Email Colorado corn acreage is expected to grow by 25 percent this year in response to the high demand for corn-based ethanol, but agricultural economists say fears of resulting higher food prices are largely unfounded. Some critics even claim that it takes more energy to produce the fuel than it yields when burned (according to the Department of Energy, corn ethanol yields almost 25 percent more energy than is used in growing the corn, harvesting it and...