Organic activists and environmental extremist groups would have the public believe that Roundup Ready (glyphosate tolerant) alfalfa is a "threat to organic alfalfa and alfalfa export markets. edu, click on Biotech Alfalfa ), for gene flow to occur from one hay field to another, the following must occur: 1) Fields must flower simultaneously; 2) Pollinators must move between fields; 3) Pollen must fertilize plants; 4) Embryos must turn into seeds: 5) Seed must fall to ground and germinate;...

Under the farm bill, they can also apply for low cost loans to help improve their business or modernize equipment, and other programs available to our nation's farmers. That's an important part of the farm bill and farmers are addressing it very aggressively. With a budget of nearly $95 billion, the USDA is the nation's premier food agency, and as the many measures in the farm bill are tweaked this year by Congress, fishermen need to make sure their ideas and needs are included. UFA's...

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In a way, I sort of miss the cashiers commenting and the baggers cringing as I d unload nine or 10 gallons of milk onto the conveyor belt. Now that our two oldest kids are off at college, we re only going through half as many gallons a week as we use to. With prices going up all the time, a fair chunk of our budget had been going toward fueling our family of six. Once a week I would write a hefty check for the grand total, hoping we wouldn t come up empty before the week was out. Whether...

If the slow pace of the hard red winter wheat harvest continues, it may slow demand for transportation in the near term, the USDA said in its weekly transportation report. Wheat basis around the country continued to weaken as some producers sell into the ongoing rally that has taken prices to 11-year highs, a merchandiser said. Meanwhile, export sales for corn, soybeans and wheat were all higher from levels seen last week, the USDA reported Thursday. Showers are confined to far western...