Agriculture 101: Young farmers take tour of local ag operations. Effingham . EffinghamNow Angela Mensing . Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 12:30 am Angela Mensing/For Effingham NowMatthew Ford, 3-year-old son of Effingham County High School Principal Yancey Ford, checks out Brad Rahn's soybean crop Saturday during the Effingham County Young Farmers tour. Effingham . EffinghamNow Angela Mensing . Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 12:30 am Angela Mensing/For Effingham NowMatthew Ford, 3-year-old son of...

This shift is part of a voluntary pledge by 11 major food companies--which represent more than two-thirds of children's food TV advertising--to devote at least half their advertising to healthier foods. The ANA says this finding helps bolster the FTC recommendations issued in May 2006, which included pushing for the introduction of 10,000 new healthy food products, representing approximately $250 billion in annual U. Some government officials have said the growing concern of children's...

Omaha - OMAHA -- ACI Worldwide , a leading international provider of software for electronic payment systems, today announced that it signed 18 new license agreements for its fraud detection solution in the last 12 months, bringing the total number of ACI Proactive Risk Manager customers to more than 120 worldwide. Omaha - OMAHA -- ACI Worldwide , a leading international provider of software for electronic payment systems, today announced that it signed 18 new license agreements for its...

Gabriel Rozenberg, Economics Reporter Damage done to Britain s farmland by the floods of the past two months could trigger a surge in supermarket prices of many seasonal crops and play havoc with the Bank of England s attempts to quell inflation, economists believe. Gabriel Rozenberg, Economics Reporter Damage done to Britain s farmland by the floods of the past two months could trigger a surge in supermarket prices of many seasonal crops and play havoc with the Bank of England s attempts...

WASHINGTON -- Thin trading on the spot cheese market makes it ripe for manipulation, and that could affect the price of milk and other dairy products, the investigative arm of Congress said Thursday. Less than 2 percent of all cheddar cheese made in the United States is traded at the CME, among only 30 participants, which range from dairy cooperatives to large companies. Department of Agriculture audit the cheese prices companies report in a separate survey to ensure their accuracy. There...