Hutjens and others said higher gasoline prices have increased the costs of moving milk from farm to market, and corn the primary feed for dairy cattle is being gobbled up by producers of the fuel-additive ethanol. By June, the milk futures market predicts, the price paid to farmers will have increased 50 percent this year driven by higher costs of transporting milk to market and increased demand for corn to produce ethanol. The USDA doesnt survey prices in California because the state sets...

Let us go back to depending on the American farmer to supply our food, and let our foreign friends decide it's time to improve on their quality control of agriculture products. At one time our farmers fed America and much of the rest of the world. Did we really think that pet food could be poisoned with melamine, mycotoxins, etc. Some of our politicians and CEOs are more interested in obtaining power and making money than keeping Americans safe at home. Our pets paid the price to warn...

Ganesan Srinivasan, director of the university farm, said there should be plenty of both white and yellow corn available through the summer and well into fall. Due to increased demand for sweet corn, we planted additional acreages this year, Srinivasan said. In spite of higher input and labor costs, we will keep our prices at last year s levels to serve our loyal customers, said Jennifer Sobieralski, Farm Market manager. Move over olive oil and wines, Fresno State s popular sweet corn has...

Possibly glufosinate and glyphosate, herbicides that are liberally applied to crops across the US, and are absorbed by crops that are genetically engineered (transgenic or GM, genetically modified), so that they are not harmed by the weed killers while all else growing in the fields is wiped out, could be part of the problem. Possibly glufosinate and glyphosate, herbicides that are liberally applied to crops across the US, and are absorbed by crops that are genetically engineered...

The price of food goes up greatly as land is used to grow crops for fuel rather than food. in the US for instance no land is being used for fuel crops when it could be that they can take the farmer off of subsidies and that would get them to start to grow a crop for fuel. in the US for instance no land is being used for fuel crops when it could be that they can take the farmer off of subsidies and that would get them to start to grow a crop for fuel. No, it's time to ban motorsport: not to...

But a new initiative plans to introduce urban high school students in Indianapolis to a bushel of opportunities within the agriculture industry that extends well beyond farming. Indianas stature as one of the nations top producers of corn and soybeans is as enduring as the fertile farmland in which the crops are grown. The three-week pilot program runs from June 1 through June 21 and provides first-generation, college-bound students of the public charter school a curriculum in animal,...