Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how prices wilted after a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in China shot corn prices to record highs. Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how prices wilted after a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the...

agencies found that even under the most extreme scenarios, the potential exposure from consuming meat from hogs and chickens known to have been fed animal feed containing melamine "was about 2,500 times lower than the dose considered safe," said Kenneth Petersen, assistant administrator of the Office of Field Operation in USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service, who also testified. There is no evidence linking human illness to certain Chinese food imports tainted with melamine or...

One, the current downside price risk is $3 with these ending stocks and two, if growing conditions this summer threatens yield potential to below 150 bushels per acre, prices will need to rally sharply to ration the ending stocks and make sure the United States doesn't run out of corn supplies. While they left planted acres unchanged, the USDA lowered their production forecast to 12. One, the current downside price risk is $3 with these ending stocks and two, if growing conditions this...

OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, May 3, 2007 (ENS) - Mad cow disease has been found in a dairy cow on a farm in Delta, British Columbia, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Wednesday, the tenth Canadian cow to be found with the fatal disease since 2003. OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, May 3, 2007 (ENS) - Mad cow disease has been found in a dairy cow on a farm in Delta, British Columbia, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Wednesday, the tenth Canadian cow to be found with the...

Genetically modified crops (GM crops) have been commercially grown since the beginning of the 1990s with production on a larger scale starting in 1996. Odling av genetiskt modifierade gr dor - ett alternativ f r svenska lantbrukare? Growing genetically modified crops - an alternative for Swedish farmers? Since then, things have changed, as a larger number of varieties have reached the market accompanied by an entirely new range of genetically modified crops. The report compares the...