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Sanderson Farms, which produces both fresh and frozen chicken, swung to a profit in its second quarter and soundly beat Wall Street's earnings predictions by $1. NEW YORK Shares of meat producers climbed higher Thursday after chicken producer Sanderson Farms inc. reported a stellar quarter in which revenue outpaced the cost of grain. Sanderson Farms attributed its strong earnings report to higher poultry prices and a rise in production at the company's Georgia and Mississippi plants,...

A provision that differs from previous disaster programs allows only those producers with crop insurance coverage or that signed up for the Non-insured Assistance Program to be eligible for assistance. The package provides $3 billion nationally for ag producers, including an estimated $15 million assistance for Montana grain producers affected by crop losses from natural disaster and related conditions that occurred in 2005 or 2006 or part of 2007. The quantity loss threshold for...

How can agricultural systems be used to store carbon? What place do organic crops have in the food chain? Can African countries produce enough crops to sustain their populations? Students studying agriculture and forestry are now just as likely to debate issues surrounding climate change and conservation as farming techniques and animal rearing. More often than not, courses in this area are based on rural campuses, set in acres of land, so you can, literally, get out in the field and put...

Researchers have created what could be the next generation of transgenic crops by inserting a gene for herbicide resistance from a bacterium into plants. The approach is not a new one many farmers already grow crops that have been engineered to resist the herbicide glyphosate. But the new plants are resistant to a compound called dicamba, and could offer farmers an alternative in areas where glyphosate-resistant weeds have become a problem. The researchers have now created transgenic soya...