Topic: Agriculture Sector
Agriculture, livestock futures mostly higher
AP News
Corn, oats soybeans futures rise on Chicago BOT, wheat slips; beef, pork prices riseAgriculture futures were mostly higher Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for March delivery slipped 1 cent to $4.83 a bushel; March corn added 4.5 cents to $3.605 a bushel; March oats ...
Jan. freeze damaged 4 percent of Fla. oranges
AP News
Report: January freeze damaged 4 percent of Fla. oranges, more than 3 percent of grapefruitFlorida citrus growers lost more than 4 percent of their orange crop and more than 3 percent of their grapefruit crop during last month's freezing weather, according to estimates released Tuesday. The U.S. Department ...
Cattle battle: NZealand has more cows than kiwis
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Moo-ve over! Cows now outnumber humans in sheep-deprived New ZealandNew Zealanders who for decades have endured jokes about being outnumbered 20-to-1 by sheep have a new farm animal majority to worry about: cows. A record 5.8 million dairy cattle were counted in the year ended June 2009, Statistics New ...
Jury: Bayer must pay $1.5M to AK, MS rice farmers
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Missouri federal court jury: Bayer should pay $1.5M to US farmers for contaminated riceA federal court jury has ordered the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5 million to farmers in Arkansas and Mississippi whose rice seed was contaminated with a genetically altered strain. Friday's verdict was ...
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