Better than ethanol? Butanol the fuel of the future?
Butanol could become a non-food market of as much as 400 million additional bushels of corn per year.
Checkoff helped build demand, protect dairy’s image in 2003
Key projects were 3-A-Day of dairy program, nutrition research and weight loss, and school and restaurant sales.
Hay and straw Web site is bale of useful knowledge for farmers
Web site helps budget, find, price, buy and sell hay and straw.
Holiday story contest winners
Here's the first group of winners in our first holiday story contest that drew more than 140 entries.
Livestock assistance payments started
More than $100 million in payments for the Livestock Assistance Program began Dec. 18.
Ohio syrup schools get into sweet stuff
Ohio State will host maple syrup production updates at three locations in January.
Pa. keeps over-order premium
Milk Marketing Board voted to keep the state's Class I over-order premium of $1.65 per hundredweight through June 2004.
USDA releases conservation program rule targeting certain watersheds
Under the proposal, agricultural land in cropland, orchards, vineyards and pasture is eligible for the Conservation Security Program.
Beef producers: Sell everything
Economist: When cattle prices are high, don't save more heifers: Sell them!
Hogs: Happy to be the other red meat
The only saving grace of the fall market is the fact that consumers are treating pork as the other red meat.
