Biodiesel leaders: Bring back $1 credit, restrict to U.S. producers
Nearly 100 U.S. biodiesel leaders pressed Congress last week to reinstate the biodiesel tax incentive as a domestic production credit, in line with a proposal passed unanimously by the Senate Finance Committee in July.
Plenty of pastureland was converted to row crops with higher grain prices. Now producers are considering returning land to pasture – a decision that takes much planning and, in some cases, significant investment.
Indiana co-op awards about how honorees are helping out others
A cooperative is about people working together in a business to provide or obtain the best deals or services for its membership – and at least one eastern Indiana credit union has been taking that idea into its community during difficult times.
Pardoned by president, turkeys given refuge at a historic Virginia farm
By now, most of them have met their inevitable doom. Artificially conceived in time for a July hatching, Broad Breasted White turkeys are bred and raised primarily for one purpose, to be the guest of honor on the dinner table of millions of Americans on the fourth Thursday of November.
The average price of a Thanksgiving meal for a family of 10 has topped $50 nationwide for the first time since the Farm Bureau has been doing its annual Marketbasket survey.
FDA approves GMO salmon; won’t require special labeling
It has been more than two decades since a company first approached federal health officials about developing a genetically modified (GMO or GE) salmon, and while it has been an upstream fight to win the approval it received last week, there are numerous groups and retailers who still say they’ll boycott the fish.
In the five months since the world’s agribusiness giant, Swiss-based Syngenta AG, brushed off a $47 billion takeover bid by St. Louis’s Monsanto Co., boardroom members across the globe have been thinking: What’s next?
Three more FSMA rules set new standards for fruits and veggies
Acting on a Congressional mandate of four years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed three more long awaited final rules (of seven), bringing the total to five so far designed to force the food industry to adopt sweeping changes primarily aimed at averting foodborne illnesses.
A cheap, plentiful carbon dioxide (CO2) supply may prove to be an effective tool in the fight to keep the invasive Asian carp species from inundating the Great Lakes, according to research conducted by scientists at the University of Illinois.
Vehicle collisions with deer increase in South Carolina
The post-Labor Day death toll and number of accidents on the state’s roads are annually magnified by encounters with the state’s large population of white tail deer.
