Topic: Grain and Oilseed Farming
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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Record yield for Louisiana rice in 2009
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Louisiana farmers average 6,300 pounds of rice per acre _ highest in state historyThe U.S. Department of Agriculture says Louisiana rice farmers averaged a record 6,300 pounds of rice per acre last year. It says that's up 470 pounds per acre from 2008, when Hurricanes Ike ...
USDA: Winter wheat acres down in most states
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USDA: Winter wheat acres down; wet fall weather and late row-crop harvest a big reasonWinter wheat seedings in most states are down, in large part because of wet fall weather and a late row crop harvest. The U.S. Agriculture Department says South Dakota farmers planted 1.25 million acres ...
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