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The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, announced a landmark policy change this week favoring U.S. broadband initiatives as the centerpiece of American communication. The FCC proposal calls for reclaiming some broadcast spectrum already allocated to the nation’s television airwaves and redistributing the frequencies for wireless Internet access.posted on March 19, 2010 3:53 PM
Private analysts released their estimates for the 2010 planting season. Informa Economics is expecting farmers to plant 78 million soybean acres while Allendale puts the number just over 79 million. For coarse grains, the two groups were separated by nearly 2 million acres. Informa believes there will ...
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This week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported more than a third of the United States faces high to above average risk of flooding this spring.
The states at highest risk are the Dakota’s, Minnesota, and Iowa which according to USDA account for 34 percent of corn production. ...
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A coalition representing governors of 29 states urged Congress this week to take steps to boost wind energy. The bipartisan Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition is calling for the federal government to adopt a renewable energy standard or RES.
The governors hope their recommendations will spur the development ...
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A cluster of the nation’s agricultural and legal leaders convened in the Heartland this week to examine dwindling corporate competition complaints. The first in a series of public workshops organized by USDA and the U.S. Justice Department was spawned by increasing concern over consolidation in the ...
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The USDA released estimates for the harvest of 2009. It's official -- both the corn crop and the soybean crop were the largest ever to be put in the bin by U.S. farmers. The news only served to push the market lower. For the week, May wheat lost 8 cents and the nearby corn contract lost more than a ...
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Private analysts released their estimates for the 2010 planting season. Informa Economics is expecting farmers to plant 78 million soybean acres while Allendale puts the number just over 79 million. For coarse grains, the two groups were separated by nearly 2 million acres. Informa believes there will ...
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Join the Market to Market team as they examine the impact of the economic recession in rural America with special reports from communities around the nation.
The second in a series of four Rural Economic Summits was held in Madison, Wisconsin on Wednesday, January 20 at 5:00 p.m. The summit included a town hall discussion among experts recorded in front of a live audience, and broadcast as a special edition of Market to Market on January 22. Additional events are being scheduled in other states through 2010.
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