If Hann is concerned about local control, I invite him to join me in working to stop anti-tax extremists who live in other states from misleading Minnesota voters -- hired hands like Paul Dorr, who lied to voters in the Robbinsdale district to promote his own anti-tax agenda. If Hann is concerned about local control, I invite him to join me in working to stop anti-tax extremists who live in other states from misleading Minnesota voters -- hired hands like Paul Dorr, who lied to voters in...

Despite record wheat prices, consumers will see minimal effects on food products containing wheat since much of it is already in processed form, Welch said. Though planted acres of wheat have increased across the Southeast, Texas and Oklahoma, weather will be a big factor on yields this spring. Even though quality-planting seed was expensive and hard to find this fall, planting cost per acre is lower and wheat requires less fuel and fertilizer than traditional row crops. If the crop is...

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Precious metals prices were lower but did not have much of an impact on corn, he said. CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Chicago Board of Trade corn futures ended with moderate gains Friday, boosted by stronger energy prices in light trade with speculative buying adding to the upside, an analyst said. The only news to influence market direction was weekly export sales, which were termed "favorable," by an analyst but within the range of estimates. Sharply lower wheat futures had little negative impact,...

IF WE FEASTING FOLKS actually had to grow our own food, like the Pilgrims and Indians did, it would take 111 hours of hard labor in the fields (about three weeks) to grow one day's worth of food for one person, according to a Carrying Capacity Network study. IF WE FEASTING FOLKS actually had to grow our own food, like the Pilgrims and Indians did, it would take 111 hours of hard labor in the fields (about three weeks) to grow one day's worth of food for one person, according to a Carrying...

And nowhere is that truth more evident, or more worrisome, than in its projected effects on agriculture. Several recent analyses have concluded that the higher temperatures expected in coming years - along with salt seepage into groundwater as sea levels rise and anticipated increases in flooding and droughts - will disproportionately affect agriculture in the planet's lower latitudes, where most of the world's poor live. Several recent analyses have concluded that the higher temperatures...