Stories Tagged "sorghum"
Crop Bounty Spurs Construction Boom at Elevators
posted on December 3, 2010 at 5:12 PM
LARNED, Kan (AP) -- A construction boom has been under way at grain elevators across the Great Plains, where farmers have grown more corn and opted to keep more of the grain to meet the demand from ethanol plants.
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Market Plus: Nov 12, 2010: Alan Brugler, Market Analyst
posted on November 12, 2010 at 4:11 PM
Border Violence Spills Onto Mexican Ranches, Farms
posted on July 9, 2010 at 3:07 PM
LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- Mexican rancher Isidro Gutierrez watched with disgust as federal inspectors here chalked a long stripe on his steer's hindquarter.
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Minnesota Plant Will Produce Fertilizer from Wind
posted on June 11, 2010 at 12:06 PM
MORRIS, Minn (AP) — The winds sweeping across the Northern Plains could soon help farmers fertilize their crops of corn, wheat and sorghum.
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Tourism Helps Tennessee Farms Stay in Business
posted on February 26, 2010 at 4:02 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn (AP) - In a tough year for Tennessee's state budget, the departments of tourism and agriculture have found a mutual silver lining: a boomlet in agricultural tourism.
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World Food Prize Honors 2009 Laureate
posted on November 24, 2009 at 2:11 PM
EPA Opens Comments for Atrazine Review
posted on November 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM
3 Million Acres Taken Out of Conservation Program
posted on November 6, 2009 at 3:11 PM
TRIBUNE, Kan.(AP) -- Surveying undulating grasslands that disappear into the western Kansas horizon, retired farmer Joe Govert pointed out parcel after parcel no longer enrolled in a federal program that pays property owners not to farm...
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EPA Re-evaluates Popular Farm Chemical
posted on October 9, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Market Plus: Jul 31, 2009: Sue Martin
posted on July 31, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Ethiopian Scientist Wins World Food Prize
posted on June 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM
WASHINGTON -- An Ethiopian scientist who has helped to feed hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa has won this year's World Food Prize.
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Legal Restraints Abound in Farmers' Flood Aid
posted on June 27, 2008 at 8:06 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S Agriculture Secretary says he is concerned that legal hurdles prevented much immediate federal help for Midwestern farmers faced with serious setbacks because of flooding.
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Sweet Sorghum Makes Potent Biofuel
posted on May 16, 2008 at 8:05 PM
LUBBOCK, Texas - Sweet sorghum is grown in the U.S for cooking and livestock feed.
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Texas Governor Seeks Ethanol Waiver
posted on April 25, 2008 at 8:04 PM
AUSTIN (AP) -- Gov Rick Perry on Friday sought a 50 percent waiver from the federal renewable fuels standard for ethanol derived from grain, citing high food costs.
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Market Plus: Sep 14, 2007: Doug Hjort, Independent Analyst
posted on September 14, 2007 at 8:09 PM