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Appeal On Roundup Ready Alfalfa Ban Is Made To Supreme Court
Monsanto, Forage Genetics and two alfalfa growers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision to deregulate and disallow the planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa until an Environmental Impact Statement has been conducted and reviewed...
October Prices: Hay Down, Milk Up, With More Herd Cuts
Although hay prices have lost more ground the past month, dairy prices are starting to show some improvement – which may give hay growers hope for the same...
Deere Recalls Many Ottumwa Workers
Most of the manufacturing employees laid off at the John Deere Ottumwa Works this past June are being recalled, according to the company. A total of 452 employees will start back to work the end of November, a month before the company's annual holiday shutdown that begins Dec. 23 ...
Horse Hay Market: Right For You?
With dairy farms just about everywhere facing financial difficulties, many commercial alfalfa hay growers are finding markets for their product dwindling....
Dairy Hay Bargains Abound
Dairy producers looking for hay should be able to find what they need at reasonable prices. The lowest prices in USDA's reporting network are in Iowa,...
Hay Prices Are Mired In Summer Slump
Hay prices are at seasonal lows, having weakened slightly from those reported in May and running well below year-ago levels in most areas. In a few states,...
Hay Export Optimism
A variety of factors combined to put a clamp on U.S. hay exports earlier this year. But some of the country's leading exporters say better times may be...
Custom Bale Conversion Business Caters To Customers
An Elgin, OK, hay marketer hopes to create a kind of fast-food chain for livestock by expanding its sister company appropriately called McHay which converts...
Direct Loans Now Available To Farmers
A total of $760 million is now available for direct loans to farmers, announced Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack in West Salem, WI, last week. The funds are available from the Supplemental Appropriations Act. “President Obama provided a welcome boost to rural economies around the country when he signed the Supplemental Appropriations Act, because it has critical funds that will enable local producers to access necessary capital...
Deere Ottumwa Works Announces Temporary Layoffs
Nearly 500 production employees at the John Deere Ottumwa Works, Ottumwa, IA, will be laid off until later this year “to ensure that factory production is aligned with market demand,” according to Deere & Company. A total of 494 will go on indefinite layoff effective June 29; another 195 will face periodic inventory adjustment layoffs throughout the next several months...
