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Ohio livestock prices

The Eastern Cornbelt Daily Direct Summary from Wednesday 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): 15 cents lower. Base price range: 88.00-94.50, weighted average 90.15. 0.8-0.9 inches backfat: 88.00-96.74. 0.6-0.7 inches backfat: 90.50-99.98. Total prior ...

  • Updated: 10:12 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
In this May 20, 2013 photo, a masked man belonging to a local self-defense group sits with his weapon as he guards the town of Cuemalco, Mexico. Self-defense groups started to spring up in February to fight back the Knights Templar drug cartel which is extorting protection payments from cattlemen and lime growers, butchers and even marijuana growers. The federal government sees both the self-defense forces and the cartel as dangerous enemies. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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 ...

  • Updated: 7:06 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
FILE - This May 15, 2013 file photo shows stacks of paperwork awaiting members of the House Agriculture Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, as it met to consider proposals to the 2013 Farm Bill. The Senate has rejected an amendment By Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. to turn the federal food stamp program over to the states. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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 ...

  • Updated: 5:57 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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 ...

  • Updated: 12:11 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Excerpts from recent North Dakota editorials

Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, May 17, 2013 Finding practical ways to aid each other Farm Rescue continues to step up for farmers and ranchers in the region. This week volunteers and equipment zeroed in on two farm operations in the Washburn area where they saved the day by getting crops in ...

  • Updated: 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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 ...

  • Updated: 11:40 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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 ...

  • Updated: 10:24 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In this May 7, 2013 photo, a Filipino fishermen carries a load of fish from a boat in the coastal town of Infanta, Pangasinan province, northwestern Philippines. Since China took control of the Scarborough Shoal last year, which Beijing calls Huangyan Island, Filipino fishermen say Chinese maritime surveillance ships have shooed them from the disputed waters in the South China Sea and roped off the entrance to the vast lagoon that had been their fishing paradise for decades. Now, they say, they can't even count on the Chinese to give them shelter there from a potentially deadly storm. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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 ...

  • Updated: 5:33 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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 ...

  • Updated: 5:40 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

2 Eastern Livestock officials sentenced to prison

One of the founders of defunct cattle broker Eastern Livestock was sentenced Tuesday to almost six years in federal prison and the former chief financial officer was sentenced to nearly five for their roles in a $32 million check kiting scheme. U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell also ordered company ...

  • Updated: 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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