Inadequate market competition is one of the greatest challenges facing independent livestock producers and a major reason why so many family farmers and ranchers have been forced out of business Buis said. Proponents of interstate shipping of state-inspected meat are firing up the debate in Washington ahead of the Senate mark up of the farm bill. NFU has a long-standing policy supporting the elimination of the interstate ban and believes the legislation will increase competition and...

Find www.app.com stories from the past week as well as calendar events, classifieds, advertisements, Yellow Page listings, local Web sites and more all in one search. Post Comment Chain netting draped across sea scallop dredges will be the government's preferred precaution for reducing accidental captures of sea turtles, with a decision this week to abandon seasonal closures that had been used to protect turtles on scallop grounds off New Jersey. APP.com - New scallop-fishing regulations...

The history of the store on Rocksprings Road began in 1890 when the store was in a community called Snatchburg about three miles from its current location. The Steils are hoping to have just such a gathering and have furnished one corner in the front of the store with a table and chairs and designated it the tall tales section. Norris is Norris Haden, who owned and operated the store as first a grocery store and then a gunsmith shop and always a community gathering place from 1947 until...

Web posted Sunday, October 28, 2007 NOAA, observers differ on success of fisheries program Observers say pressure is on them to recount bycatch, but say attacks are not increasing as a recent report has suggested By Margaret Bauman Alaska Journal of Commerce. Web posted Sunday, October 28, 2007 NOAA, observers differ on success of fisheries program Observers say pressure is on them to recount bycatch, but say attacks are not increasing as a recent report has suggested By Margaret Bauman...

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Francis Kayanja, chief clinical officer at Katwe's health center, estimates that at least 10 percent of patients who come there are ill from working in Katwe's waters. He keeps at it even though the lake's highly concentrated, corrosive salt water has eaten away at his skin, leaving scars and open sores. The women also suffer lesions, and coat themselves in cassava paste, believing -- not on the basis of any medical evidence -- that the water causes infertility. In an average week, each...