While wet weather has slowed much of the year's harvest, a mostly dry September helped Tennessee farmers get their crops in ahead of schedule. Hot weather vexed the state's soybean crop which is expected to be down 48 percent from last year, the lowest since 1966. The state's cotton and soybean crop took enormous hits this season, while corn production had one of its largest years. Cotton production is expected to be down 43 percent from last year and the 780,000 bales produced will be the...

Duncan joined Monsanto Company where he held positions in product development, marketing, government and regulatory affairs; and as both a commercial development and business unit executive. After retirement from Monsanto, Duncan took on the CEO role at Chlorogen, inc. where he raised $10M from a syndicate of venture investors and proceeded to build the company into a highly regarded start-up focused on human therapeutic protein expression and production in tobacco. "I have been involved...

The $60 billion measure would expand the program from $35 billion over the next five years and would add an estimated 4 million uninsured children to the program. Mike Turner, who represents part of Warren County, got some presidential support last week for his bill to preserve and protect historic sites. Because both programs were created by executive order, they risk being discontinued under a new administration. Chabot said he supports providing assistance for workers who lose their...

But when we do that, sit back and watch rather than react with the outrage these situations should produce, we are sitting back and watching the erosion of the most important protection of our rights -- the rights of all Canadians, native or otherwise -- which is the rule of law. Natives from the Hollow Water reserve illegally blocked the road that allows non-natives to reach their cottages on the east side of Lake Winnipeg for most of the summer. But when we do that, sit back and watch...

Kathleen Sebelius with a health plan to "Encourage the promotion of personal responsibility; Pay for prevention and promote medical homes; and Provide and protect affordable health insurance. Kathleen Sebelius with a health plan to "Encourage the promotion of personal responsibility; Pay for prevention and promote medical homes; and Provide and protect affordable health insurance. Kathleen Sebelius with a health plan to "Encourage the promotion of personal responsibility; Pay for...