usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogleWhat's this? Print Email Corn to fuel cost for food Alternative fuel demand will up prices for groceries By SEAN ADKINS Daily Record/Sunday News Article Launched:06/03/2007 01:01:19 AM EDT At bottom: From corn Jun 3, 2007 Americans' hunger for alternative fuels might cost them at the grocery store. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogleWhat's this? Print Email Corn to fuel cost for food Alternative fuel demand will up prices for groceries By SEAN ADKINS Daily...

ANGUS numbers continue to climb with one in every four beef calves registered by breed organisations in Australia last year being an Angus. Over the past 10 years, the Angus share of British breed registrations jumped from 27 percent to 46 percent, while the next two biggest British breeds combined fell from 47 percent to 30 percent - almost an exact reversal of market share. Since 1994 when the figures of primary and secondary registers were combined, Angus registrations have doubled....

Akin, who has about 3,000 cattle that could qualify for the incentive, said the state would reap the biggest benefit by keeping more of the beef industry in Missouri. Keeping some of those animals and helping start feeding operations, cattle producers say, could expand the billion-dollar-per-year cattle industry. The bill gives a tax break to farmers who sell their cattle later, after the animals weigh 450 pounds, about when they have been weaned from milk. The beef tax credit is a small...

Recombinant bovine somotrophin - variously known as rBST, rGBH and bST - has been around since 1993, when it was approved as a supplement for dairy cows. Milk, though, is an industry where pennies can make or break a profit margin, and a 10 percent boost in production is big. In the other corner: Monsanto co., which sells rBST and alleges rBST-free labels besmirch the perfectly safe, government-approved use of synthetic hormones. The tongue-twisting hormone can increase milk production by...

Minister Mary Coughlan, announcing the publication, said the sector consists of over 130,000 family farms and around 700 industrial units across the country. The export performance of the sector in 2006 exhibits its continued strength in the face of increasingly competitive international markets, with agri-food exports reaching a record level of over 8 billion, she said. It remains one of the largest indigenous industries in terms of manufacturing and consumer spend. Overall, the agri-food...

CKE argues in the suit that the commercials falsely imply that Angus beef burgers come "from the rear-end and/or anus of beef cattle by creating phonetic and aural confusion between the words 'Angus' and 'anus. N) on Friday over new television commercials it says misleads customers into confusing CKE's Angus hamburgers with meat from a cow's anus. The suit also says the ads mislead consumers by making an "apples to oranges" comparison between sirloin, which is a cut of beef, and Angus,...