November 16, 2007 NEW YORK Soybean prices climbed on Friday, capping a week of strong gains amid expectations that growing Chinese demand for beans could rapidly deplete global stockpiles. With Chinese production of soybeans down this year due to poor weather, and consumption of beans and bean oil growing fast in that country, demand for U. This week, the USDA released three separate reports on China's soybean purchases, which amounted to 443,000 metric tons this week alone. The USDA...

SDCA is worried that the ban could effectively outlaw value-added livestock marketing programs because most are coordinated through the packing stage. The bill includes mandatory country of origin labeling for meat and a ban on meatpacking companies owning cattle for more than 14 days before slaughter. They basically can close out the market whenever they want, she said. This will sure help the producers at least have a better chance at the market. The ban on packer ownership of livestock...

The Senate's farm bill would do the opposite - it would hold EQIP funding levels while providing an additional $2 billion over five years for CSP, enough to add 13 million acres a year. Keeping cattle in the fabric-covered structures, rather than out in the open, should prevent manure from washing off his property. The program's growth has been stunted because the funding in the 2002 farm bill was slashed by Congress in ensuing years for disaster aid and other needs. It's probably a pretty...

Keener addressed family farmers who produce asparagus, cheese, melons, free-range chickens and other products throughout the state at Purdue's Food Science Building last week. The trend to buy healthy, local, natural, organic, environmentally friendly and worker friendly food creates opportunities for producers to sell on their farms, at farmers markets, in grocery stores and in restaurants. Adam Moody, who operates butcher shops in Avon, Ladoga and Indianapolis, said after hearing...

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That's why the identities of restaurants and grocery stores in California who served beef from a mad cow in 2003 were kept secret as well as the identities of Texas and Alabama ranches who produced mad cows soon after. Lucky for big meat, state and federal lawmakers have long anticipated the need to protect businesses--if not people--when outbreaks of potentially lethal pathogens occur in meat and enacted shield laws. Profit watching causes other health risks in the slaughterhouse too...