CHICAGO: Prices of milk, cheese, ice cream, and other dairy products will be going up this summer in the United States as more dairy processors pass on their skyrocketing raw milk costs. Prices for other dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and ice cream will also rise, but the extent will depend on the amount of milk used in the products, they said. Corn prices were also expected to remain high, despite projections for the largest crop in history in 2007, as the booming ethanol industry...

EST Komfie Manalo - AHN Correspondent Manila, Philippines (AHN) - The Philippines Department of Agriculture, in tandem with the National Food Authority announced on Sunday a plan to put up a $42 million "national grains highway" that will link farm production areas directly to major consumption centers and substantially decrease the price of agricultural products. EST Komfie Manalo - AHN Correspondent Manila, Philippines (AHN) - The Philippines Department of Agriculture, in tandem with the...

U-S Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has downplayed ethanol's impact on food costs, saying food prices typically rise two-to-three percent a year based on a dozen different factors. Some experts maintain there will be enough corn for everyone if a forecast for the largest U-S corn planting since 1944 bears out. About half of the nation's corn crop feeds livestock and poultry, so high prices could mean more expensive meat and eggs on grocery shelves. The ethanol boom that's driven up corn...

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...

With the rise of ethanol and the recent jump in corn prices, more farmers are dialing the metronome to a new tempo: corn, corn, corn, corn. Rather than rotating corn and soybeans, he is growing corn in succession on some fields to take advantage of higher corn prices. His family farm has been doing this for years, but now they are upping their acreage from 75 percent corn to about 90 percent. Farmers like Keith Alverson say if it's done right, "corn on corn" can be economically and...

The Iowa farmer clenching a pitchfork would have sold his crops to grain elevators for food -- not fuel. Any study of crops didn't go much past 4-H projects at county fairs or the famed outdoor laboratories of moonshiners in the hills of Tennessee -- with one eye on the lookout for "revenuers. However, the seeds of change were there -- those moonshiners discovered they could fuel their trucks with the alcohol they made. Solar power -- made possible with the polycrystalline silicon that...