AGRICULTURE
Precip again delays SD harvest 
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The weekly crop report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture says South Dakota's row-crop harvest endured more delays last week, and precipitation was the culprit.
By Associated Press , October 19, 2009
Standing crops hurt hunter success
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — State Game, Fish and Parks officials say two weeks of precipitation before the opening weekend of South Dakota's pheasant season helped limit the places where hunters could chase their wily prey.
By Associated Press , October 19, 2009
USDA confirms H1N1 in Minnesota pigs
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least one pig from Minnesota has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday, the first case of a pig contracting the virus in the United States.
By HENRY C. JACKSON,Associated Press Writer , October 19, 2009
State Fair pigs may have had H1N1
Test results expected soon; product safety is stressedMINNEAPOLIS — Preliminary tests show three pigs in Minnesota may have contracted the H1N1 virus, making them the first potential U.S. cases in swine, agricultural officials said Friday. They stressed the finding does not threaten food safety.
By Associated Press , October 17, 2009
Pigs may have tested positive for H1N1
4 p.m. UpdateWASHINGTON (AP) — Pigs in Minnesota may have tested positive for the H1N1 virus in a preliminary test, the first potential U.S. cases in swine, Agriculture Department officials said Friday.
By HENRY C. JACKSON,Associated Press Writer , October 16, 2009
Worker: Slaughterhouse boss sought fake invoices
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A defense attorney for a former top manager at an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse tried to show Thursday that accounting practices at the plant were sloppy, records were faulty and the plant operated on a slim margin.
By NIGEL DUARA,Associated Press Writer , October 15, 2009
Poet introducing new ethanol co-product
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, says it is introducing a co-product that can be used as a gum base or in films, packaging, adhesives, coatings and glazes.
By Associated Press , October 15, 2009
Ag teacher named finalist for Iowa’s Excellence in Education award
SIBLEY, Iowa — Sibley-Ocheyedan High School agriculture instructor Mike Earll has been named a runner-up in Iowa’s 2009 Excellence in Education award. More than 70 teachers across the state were nominated for the honor.
By Julie Buntjer , October 14, 2009
Money in corn cobs? Research at Scotland seeks to prove there i
SCOTLAND — There’s ethanol, and hopefully money, in corn cobs.
By Ross Dolan, The Daily Republic , October 13, 2009
Low quality makes farmers discount spring wheat
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Producers of hard red spring wheat in the upper Midwest have reaped one of the biggest harvests in history, but the bin-busting crop isn't of high enough quality to pay the bills for many farmers.
By BLAKE NICHOLSON,Associated Press Writer , October 09, 2009
AGCO to pay $1.6M
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia-based international farming equipment manufacturer has agreed to pay $1.6 million for paying kickbacks to the former Iraqi government to secure United Nations oil-for-food contracts, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
October 07, 2009
Weather slows down sugar beet harvest
GRAND FORKS - The recent rainy weather has slowed the regional sugar beet harvest, but one local American Crystal Sugar official said workers are used to inclement weather during this time of year.
By Ryan Johnson, Grand Forks Herald , October 06, 2009
Farmers in a rain delay
WORTHINGTON — Soybean harvest across southwest Minnesota has been spotty the past two weeks, thanks to a crop that is maturing later than usual and an ongoing stretch of rainy weather that has kept farmers out of fields that are ready.
By Julie Buntjer , October 06, 2009
Pipestone dairy fined for May manure spill
ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has fined a Pipestone County dairy $10,000 for a 252,000-gallon manure spill that caused a fish kill.
By Associated Press , September 30, 2009
Elevators full of unsold wheat amid fall harvest
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Amid a global glut of wheat stockpiles, grain elevators across parts of the Great Plains remain crammed with unsold winter wheat as facilities brace for expected bumper fall harvests of corn, sorghum and soybeans.
By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer , September 29, 2009
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