Changes in world exports and imports are also nearly offsetting; however, major export changes include 1-million-ton reductions for both Canada and EU-25 and 0. Producers have marketed most of their 2006 production limiting the effect of further price movements on the weighted season-average farm price. Exports are raised 25 million bushels to 900 million reflecting improved export prospects as U. grain sorghum exports for 2006/07 are lowered 10 million bushels reflecting lower projected...

Thirty broiler poultry farms and eight breeder poultry farms in Indiana received contaminated feed in early February and fed it to poultry within days of receiving it. Acheson attempted to assure Americans that there is very little likelihood that they will get sick from eating pork or chicken contaminated with melamine. Acheson said that without changes made at farms and in processing plants, he would not be surprised if there is another outbreak linked to leafy greens this year. Based on...

Farmers "who sell hogs or hog-raising services to the merged firm would have competitive alternatives that would deter the merged firm from lowering prices paid to the farmers," the department said. The investigators decided that independent farmers could ship or "credibly threaten" to ship their hogs to other packers, the statement said. The independent pork producer knew what the ruling was going to be the minute Smithfield proposed the buyout. Since DesMoinesRegister.com does not...

The herds that tested negative were being released immediately from the quarantine aimed at preventing any spread of the viral illness, which causes respiratory symptoms in healthy adult hogs but can kill newborn pigs and cause abortion or stillbirth in sows. Tests of Clark County swine herds for pseudorabies in a final quarantine area came out negative, which should clear the way for the state to retain its status as free of the disease despite an outbreak in two herds, officials said...

Food and Drug Administration of a less-than-perfect vaccine against bird flu is only the beginning of the search for a truly effective shot against the virus, experts said. Luckily, the annual search for a vaccine against seasonal flu is helping scientists as they seek immunization against its much deadlier cousin, H5N1 avian influenza. According to experts, avian flu vaccines are essentially made in the same way as the regular flu vaccine. That's much lower than the regular seasonal flu...