Natural Products Industry Insider - Natural Products Industry Insider-Soy Protein Protects Bone Scientific Excellence Awards. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign randomized 61 postmenopausal women, 43 of whom completed the nine-month double blind intervention, to receive soy protein isolate (SPI) or milk protein isolate (MPI), with or without moderate-intensity exercise, in a 2x2 design. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign randomized...

Department of Agriculture said surveys since 1997 have shown annual decreases in the land used for farming in Horry and Brunswick counties. In recent years, and since a federally approved tobacco buyout in 2004, a number of area farmers have sold whole farms or portions for development, or diversified their crops to make continued farming profitable. Avery, which Shelley and his son, Cam, now use for small tasks, is a symbol of their family's roughly 60-year farming tradition. The...

Supporting both corn and wheat futures is the tightness in old crop stocks and projected new crop stocks. One more unique contribution for 2007, dating back to 1986 there has never been a good to excellent rating to have the same identical rating for the first three consecutive weeks of a new crop year. Crop Condition: NASS released its first soybean crop condition report of 2007 for soybeans and managed to find record good to excellent ratings. Today the National Ag Statistics Service...

The rally in soybean prices was a big help in moving corn off limit-down levels but the price activity in December corn was also a big factor, Kleist said. Selling eased after midsession, when soybean futures and soybean meal rallied. Market Watch Online email. In addition, the corn crop isn t in the ground and in many areas farmers can t get into their fields to prepare the ground for planting, and given the fact that farmers are expected to plant 90 million acres this year, time is of...

Federal disaster assistance available for 81 Illinois counties Governor Rod Blagojevichsays federal disaster assistance is now available for farmers and nursery owners in 81 of Illinois' 102 counties to help them recover from an April freeze that damaged crops. Federal disaster assistance available for 81 Illinois counties Governor Rod Blagojevichsays federal disaster assistance is now available for farmers and nursery owners in 81 of Illinois' 102 counties to help them recover from an...