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...

Farmetrics users can make weekly guesses about how much grain was planted in their county, how much will be harvested in the fall and other statistics. Grain company Bunge Limited has set up a Web site that uses individual farmers knowledge to forecast how the country s crops will perform. Northeast Indiana farmers know exactly how corn is faring in their fields, but they have less precise information about the nation s crop. Some area farmers and agriculture experts are using the...

Concerns about China possibly raising interest rates and a rise in Palm Oil margins are pressuring the Palm oil market after surging to 8 year highs. Wheat up 24 cents after spending much of the session at limit up while soybeans ended the day down cent. Weekly export sales released this morning show soybean sales of 351,600 mt. Corn gained strength from the wheat rally but beans were being pressured by a large sell-off in Malaysian palm oil overnight. Traders say the soy complex is mostly...

US Commodities: Corn, Soybeans End Up Sharply On Weather NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Corn futures ended higher on the Chicago Board of Trade Friday buoyed by continued dry weather forecasts in the near term with uncertainty regarding longer-term forecasts late next week adding to upside momentum, analysts said. US Commodities: Corn, Soybeans End Up Sharply On Weather NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Corn futures ended higher on the Chicago Board of Trade Friday buoyed by continued dry weather forecasts...

Living 7-Day Archive Monday. As a result, the company ''can not have any faith in the integrity or the accuracy of the ingredient labels of any of its products manufactured by American Nutrition'' and is withdrawing them from the market, even those that American Nutrition says do not contain rice protein. It did not give a breakout number for dogs, but the data suggest that three out of every 10,000 cats and dogs that ate the food developed kidney failure. As a result, the company ''can...