Dairymen are experiencing a rare event these days - the higher retail prices consumers are paying at the grocery store for milk is actually spilling over to those who produce the product. Ironically, there are fewer dairies because farmers for years have been working at about a break-even or go-broke rate with production costs outstripping prices received for raw milk. But it is costing about $18 to produce a hundred pounds of milk, thanks to the price of oil, feed, the cows themselves and...

To resolve this issue we have provided you with an alternative "Safari Back" button to help you navigate through our site. With its own beach, a wide range of kayaks to rent by the hour and a calm lagoon from which to launch, it's a great starting point for a kayak tour of Richardson Bay. When the fog isn't draped over the mountain, my wife and I like to take a bottle of Champagne to the top, sit on the bench and gaze out over the water. You must try a slice of the pistachio ice cream pie...

So the new strategy, unveiled in a July plan issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and re-iterated this week by Chen Deming, a vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission in Beijing, is for most of the biofuel to come from non-grain sources, such as sweet sorghum, sugarcane and cassava. So the new strategy, unveiled in a July plan issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and re-iterated this week by Chen Deming, a vice chairman of the National Development and Reform...

In addition, farmers, ranchers and American consumers are concerned that using corn as an alternative fuel source drives up food and animal feed prices. For these reasons, the conversion of switchgrass to fuel can be far more energy efficient than the conversion of corn to fuel. Switchgrass and other varieties of perennial prairie grasses, which grow naturally in Oklahoma, are relatively drought resistant, require modest amounts of energy-intensive fertilizers and regenerate yearly. In...

The companies that like to buy these crops like them at a very specific moisture level, and so this past week's wetness means farmers will have to spend extra time, labor, and fuel costs drying their grain out in grain dryers. But damage like that isn't the only worry -- moisture itself is a problem right now, for rice as well as for corn, soybeans, and anything else being harvested. Water is essential for rice crops -- but as with so many things in life -- timing may be even more...