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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

Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps

The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut — or roughly a half of 1 percent — to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill. Food stamps now cost almost $80 billion annually and are used by 1 in 7 Americans. The ...

  • Updated: 5:51 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
In this photo provided by the Jersey City Police Department, a goat is petted by Lt. Kelly Chesler at Liberty Humane Society, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Jersey City, N.J. Chesler was one of the officers who caught the goat, which went lose on the Pulaski Skyway, causing a traffic jam Tuesday morning. Capt. Edgar Martinez said it took 90 minutes for emergency services to corral the goat as it ran along the four-lane bridge between Jersey City and Kearny Point Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jersey City Police Department, Francisco Rodriguez)

Goat on the lam snarls NJ's Pulaski Skyway traffic

A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase. The small, chocolate brown female with curved horns eluded five Jersey City police officers for more ...

  • Updated: 5:08 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Growers making up for lost time in planting corn

U.S. farmers who could only watch helplessly this spring as storm after storm left their fields a muddy mess took to their tractors en masse last week and planted a record amount of corn acreage, even in areas where conditions are still far from perfect. Until last week, Corn Belt ...

  • Updated: 4:28 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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