To celebrate this return to more humane and sustainable ranching which results in a leaner, healthier and a lot less-traveled product, a couple of the market's grass-fed ranchers will offer tastes of some of the meats they raise this week. Josh's chickens are now available at the meat market at both farmers markets and by contacting him for bulk orders. The Montoyas will bring cut-up cactus pads or "nopalitos" as well as carrots, green onions, garlic, shallots, romaine lettuce and the...

A futures market rally would normally spark heavier soybean movement, butbasis levels nationwide are very weak and that is limiting the amount coming tomarket, he said. In the Louisiana Gulf export market Friday, soybean basis bids for nearbydelivery were narrowly mixed, while corn bids weakened 2 cents. Nearby CBOT soybean futures climbed to three-month highs and new-crop monthshit fresh contract highs on concerns that light showers forecast for next weekwon't provide much relief to dry...

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CRUDE palm oil (CPO) futures prices on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives finished a very erratic session with prices sharply higher boosted by the recovery in soyoil futures prices and a firm cash market. Prices initially soared to a new life-of-contract high on Monday and then reversed direction and fell sharply on long liquidation pressure, prompted by huge losses in the Chicago Board of Trade soyoil futures. The 3- and 7-day exponentially smoothed moving-average price lines (ESA-lines) ended...