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Mexico cartel dominates, torches western state
The farm state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror. The Knights Templar cartel is extorting protection payments from cattlemen, lime growers and businesses ...
2 Ore. timber counties reject public safety levies
Voters in two Oregon timber counties with the lowest property taxes in the state — Curry and Josephine — turned down tax increases Tuesday that would have funded law enforcement, but a jail levy passed in a third, Lane County. The outcome puts Curry County, population 22,000, closer to going ...
Senate rejects bid to let states run food stamps
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican bid to turn the federal food stamp program over to the states. Known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the food stamp program is administered by the Agriculture Department and federal dollars are unlimited as long as recipients qualify. The program ...
More ethanol leaking after Iowa train derailment
Iowa officials say more ethanol is leaking into the Little Cedar River following a train derailment east of Charles City. The state Department of Natural Resources says workers trying to recover ethanol cars and locomotives on Wednesday realized a second ethanol car was leaking. They discovered leaking ethanol and fuel ...
AP-USDA-Eastern Cornbelt Hog Report,648
LM—HG209 Des Moines, Iowa Wed, May 22, 2013 USDA Market News EASTERN CORNBELT DAILY DIRECT MORNING HOG REPORT BASED ON STATE OF ORIGIN PLANT DELIVERED PURCHASE DATA FOR Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (As of 9:30 AM) CURRENT VOLUME BY PURCHASE TYPE BARROWS & GILTS LIVE AND CARCASS BASIS Estimated Actual ...
BC-USDA-Midwest Regional Eggs
NW—PY018 Des Moines, IA Wed. May 22, 2013 USDA Market News SHELL EGGS: Daily Midwest Regional Eggs Prices are steady. The undertone is barely steady. Retail and food service demand is light to moderate. Offerings are light to moderate. Supplies are moderate and increasing. Market activity is slow. Breaking stock ...
Ohio livestock prices
The Eastern Cornbelt Daily Direct Summary from Tuesday as reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture Marketing Service: BASE MARKET On a carcass basis plant delivered (54-62 pct. lean): 13 cents higher. Base price range: 84.46-94.50, weighted average 90.30. 0.8-0.9 inches backfat: 89.00-96.74. 0.6-0.7 inches backfat: 92.00-99.98. Total prior ...
Fishermen pay price in Asia's volatile sea rifts
Along the northwestern Philippine coast, poor children with claw hammers clamber aboard an abandoned fishing vessel to pry loose and steal rusty nails from its deck. It's become a familiar sight in villages where some fishermen have been forced to give up their livelihoods since China took control of their ...
W.Va.'s local-food movement a model for Appalachia
With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food. But creative collaborations with food entrepreneurs are seeding a new kind of economy that federal officials say could become a model for 12 other Appalachian states. Officials ...
Federal subsidy late; Ore. timber counties unhappy
Timber counties in western Oregon are unhappy that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is taking so long to send out $2 million in federal subsidies withheld under the mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration. In February, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management withheld 10 percent of the money due ...
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