red meat industry and is funded by USDA, exporting companies, and the beef, pork, lamb, corn, sorghum and soybean checkoff programs. Get the latest industry news delivered right to your computer! Dorminy says it is time to look for new emerging markets. Hugh Dorminy, from Russellville, Arkansas, serves as U. Meat Export Federation Pork Committee chair and is a former National Pork Board president. Recently he talked about how 15 years of growth in U. Dorminy says USMEF is a key to the...

Anyway after a delicious lunch (and the doggy bag of ribs I brought back for the news staff was scarfed down quicker than a dust devil moves across the farmlands), I met photojournalist Jay Melvin and we traveled route 73/104 to the Lewis family farm in West Portsmouth. Coincidentally, a question on drought and severe weather led me to talk about the report of a large dust devil that swept past the Race Track just last week. Anyway after a delicious lunch (and the doggy bag of ribs I...

In this speech to the European Biotechnology Open day in Brussels EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson strongly defends an open European approach to biotechnology and GM food; one that prioritises strict science-based health and safety testing but which recognises that safe biotechnology has a crucial role to play in agriculture and agricultural trade both in Europe and the developing world. In this speech to the European Biotechnology Open day in Brussels EU Trade Commissioner Peter...

Unlike soybeans, alfalfa and certain other crops, corn requires heavy applications of fertilizer because it is unable to take nitrogen from the atmosphere. What is washing off those fields is nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers applied in ever-increasing amounts to grow more corn to fuel the ethanol boom. Like newborn babes, those tiny, willowy corn plants demand plenty of feeding -- an average of 156 pounds of nitrogen and 80 pounds of phosphorus per acre on Illinois' corn crop since...

The company will create 34 jobs in North Sioux City and will utilize advanced Korean technology and a solid state fermentation technique to use soy and other plant origin products to manufacture animal feeds. The expansion is being driven by a global demand to supply animal diets with high quality protein sources. Biotechnology is the wave of the future. High-Tech Soy Fermentation Facility, First in US, Coming to North Sioux City. Weve acquired land and have options on more land. South...