Vegetarian? Let me count the ways - Orlando Sentinel : Health & Medicine Vegetarian? Let me count the ways - Orlando Sentinel : Health & Medicine Health & Medicine. I noted the multitude of health benefits, the heavy toll of meat farming on the environment, the grain that goes to fattening cows instead of saving starving humans, the horrors of factory farming, the clean conscience that arises from not slaughtering and consuming your fellow creatures. I noted the multitude of health...

In fact, 89 percent of the state s corn crop has been planted, the highest percentage since records began in 1980, the National Agricultural Statistics Service s Wisconsin field office said Monday in its weekly crop report. The agency said 61 percent of Wisconsin s soybean crop has been planted, compared with 44 percent a year ago and a five-year average of 37 percent. Corn and soybean planting in Wisconsin is ahead of normal after two weeks of good weather. He guessed 40 percent of the...

Reed Construction Data Chief Economist Jim Haughey discusses how current developments in construction markets and the ecomony will bring opportunities and challenges for designers, contractors, and materials and services providers. Unless, of course, the process to produce bio-diesel from soybeans is improved and farmers switch back to soybeans from corn. Near term, there is a risk of sharp price increases for fuels, food and hence general inflation and credit costs and farmland which is...

and world supply and consumption forecast on May 11 as supportive for corn, soybeans, and wheat price prospects, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist. Year-ending stocks of soybeans for the 2007-08 marketing year are projected at 320 million bushels, 290 million less than the projection for the current year. Based on March planting intentions, a forecast of acreage harvested for grain, and the trend yield calculation, the 2007 crop is projected at 12. The projection...

If soybean rust is found in Indiana, all agricultural and natural resources extension educators will be notified and efforts made to get information to growers. Time is important because the soybean plant is most vulnerable in the flowering stage, which occurs in late June and early July. Plant pathologists reported finding soybean rust 53 days earlier this year than last on kudzu in southern Louisiana. It's still too early to predict the likelihood and potential intensity of soybean rust...