Montana Highway 200 was blocked off for part of the day, and residents within a 1,500-foot radius were evacuated until the danger of explosions passed. ButteLocal Development corp. will use $25,000 to assist a small processing facility to expand into hog processing, saving 11 jobs and creating 24. The Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department and other responding agencies were unable to immediately douse the fire because of explosive materials including paint, solvent, oil and fuel inside the...

The Georgian Agriculture Ministry says that measures taken by the authorities -- including isolating, disinfecting, and when necessary, killing pigs -- have successfully contained the outbreak. There is no vaccine for African swine fever, which is often fatal among pigs but does not affect humans. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on June 8 that the outbreak could have potentially catastrophic economic consequences, and asked neighboring Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia to be on...

The question is how high do we go before exports and demand won t handle added price strength? The market has told us not yet, according to recent strong export numbers. In a lot of ways this market may be closer to healthy trading, rather than just running up fast to price levels that stifle ethanol expansion, or which price us out of the export market. Frankly, this market has been in caution mode, which suggests traders fear a big crop rather than fearing the loss of bushels. This...

China's industrial production was growing faster in the first half of the year, and the profits of industrial enterprises experienced a high margin of growth. According to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, although some areas were affected by natural disasters; this year China's summer grain was still harvested. However, within economic development, some major problems also exist, including extremely fast industrial growth, the pressure of a large foreign trade surplus, and...

Most retailers, manufacturers and parastatals continued to comply with the Govern-ment-directed price freeze but only a minority of shops had limited the quantities of most essential goods customers could buy before the latest directive from the Cabinet Taskforce on Price Monitoring and Stabilisation. Most retailers, manufacturers and parastatals continued to comply with the Govern-ment-directed price freeze but only a minority of shops had limited the quantities of most essential goods...