Not only do we expect this year s crop to be better, but there are more mature bucks out there simply because harvest was down in 2006. As far as the quality of the animals, the deer we re seeing are in pretty good condition and I expect antler quality and body weights to be above average. Krueger said back-to-back years of low fawn production has had an impact and although the deer are making up ground this year, hunters in some areas still may see fewer deer. Just because hunters aren t...

The program, using arcane formulas, provides subsidies to farmers to maintain certain price levels for selected crops, including cotton, corn, rice and wheat. Agricultural interests such as the Texas Farm Bureau support the subsidies, saying they are necessary to keep domestic products competitive with cheaper imports. They charge that the subsidies increasingly help wealthy and absentee landowners more than family farmers, and they want to slim down the program in the new farm bill before...

With the single commodity ETCs, investors can buy a range of commodities such as gold, oil and zinc as well as soft commodities like corn, cotton, soybeans, sugar and wheat. The growing wealth and purchasing power of emerging economies such as China and India, as well as new demand for the production of biofuels, are reasons cited by enthusiasts for the bull run to continue. Wheat, corn, sugar and soya are setting investors' pulses racing as demand rises faster than supply, pushing prices...

Producers of cotton, wheat, oil and other "cash crops" from the Concho Valley could benefit from a sagging dollar expected to become punier after last week's interest rate cut. The fading greenback probably will strengthen cotton and other exports as foreign countries put their growing buying power to work, Extension economist and professor Dr. Wednesday, the Fed bumped rates down a quarter-point to 4.5 percent, aiming to head off fallout from the floundering housing market. Cotton farmers...

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