Agriculture

The Canadian Dairy Commission announced today increases in the support prices for butter and skim milk powder that will be effective February 1, 2009. The support price for skim milk powder will increase from $6.1125 to $6.1783 per kg. The support price

Consumers have trimmed their consumption of beef, veal and turkey since 1996; while the $66 billion beef sector still rules the roost, chicken was increasingly what's for dinner in 2008. Chicken sales winged up 6.7% in 2008, three times the overall growt

Consumers and Farmers Join Together to Promote Organic Integrity

The popular and rapidly growing Santa Fe Cattle Co. roadhouse style steak restaurant chain will officially open the doors to its 27th location at 4:00 p.m. in Enterprise, Alabama, on Monday, December 8th. The opening marks the 8th new unit the company ha

The results are in and for a second consecutive year Monsanto's YieldGard VT Triple hybrids proved that it pays to use Monsanto corn technology on rotated ground. Multiple year data confirms YieldGard VT Triple corn provides a yield advantage on rotated

Dr. David Dennis will Outline How Technology Can Solve Pressing Food, Fuel Problems of the 21st Century

Corn yield harvest results show that, on average, corn seed hybrids containing YieldGard VT Triple technology - the next generation of YieldGard insect control products - from Monsanto Canada achieved a yield advantage of 10.1 bushels per acre over simil

US Farms, Inc. discussed today what impact the recently announced recession in the US by the National Bureau of Economic Research will have on its Farming and Nursery businesses going forward into 2009.