Chvez dressed down the foreign owners of the steel maker Siderrgica del Orinoco over the weekend, asking them to halt exports and focus on meeting domestic demand. Chvez had threatened on Thursday to nationalize Sidor, and to take over the banking system unless banks agreed to offer low-cost financing to domestic industry. The main index of the Caracas stock exchange fell 2.7 percent on Friday, while Venezuelas currency, the bolvar, also weakened about 3 percent, to 3,950 to the dollar in...

I hold nothing against Brazil, even thought to more than a few Brazilians continuously bombarded with the most diverse arguments, which can be confusing even for people who have traditionally been friendly to Cuba, we might sound callous and careless about hurting that country s net income of hard currency. I hold nothing against Brazil, even thought to more than a few Brazilians continuously bombarded with the most diverse arguments, which can be confusing even for people who have...

Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in China shot corn prices to record highs prices that later wilted. Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in...

each morning, Elizabeth Bush, who owns 15 cows and approximately 50 steer, has strapped on her work gloves and revved up the tractor to do one of her favorite things - farming. She can identify each one, even though most of the similarly-sized, solid black livestock are nearly indistinguishable to the untrained eye. On a crisp Sunday morning, Elizabeth Bush eased into a herd of cattle hoping to find a new calf peering out from behind its mother. Each morning, Bush checks dozens of pregnant...

The new burger is a third of pound (duh) of Angus beef topped with restaurant-choice toppings such as bacon or mushrooms and, as always, cheese. Bare Witness There?s no reason to treat this woman any differently than other woman you?ve dated ? except that she takes her clothes off in front of strangers for money. McDonald's joins Burger King with the Angus burger trend, and Chicagoist couldn't help wondering, what's so special about Angus beef? Angus beef comes from Angus Cattle (again,...

He needed help to pay for feed, but by the time the federal government came through, the cattle were not only fed, but shipped to packing plants and their beef was already for sale. Although he's trying to get the rest of his spring crop planted, you won't hear any under-his-breath complaints about the muddy fields created by Thursday's drenching rain. Congress is crafting the 2007 farm bill, legislation with the potential to force fundamental changes in the way farmers and ranchers...