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...report issued Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistical Service's Des Moines, Iowa, office said recent rains are actually helping corn and soybean crops. "Cooler temperatures associated with rains are helping livestock, though insects continue to be an issue," the report said matter-of-factly...
...Department of Agriculture subsidy to a single soybean-and-corn farm in Illinois from 1999 to 2005--paid to an owner who died...
...Harvard Business School this fall, says she had “no prior knowledge” of the stock market when she arrived on campus. She grew up on a produce farm in Kansas, and her only interaction with the financial world came from hearing her father talk about soybean futures...
Biofuels are touted as a planet-friendly substitute for coal and oil. While ethanol (made from corn or sugarcane) and biodiesel (made from soybean or palm oil) burn cleaner and produce less greenhouse gas than fossil fuels do, critics warn that biofuels have their own dark side. Cuba's Fidel Castro even called powering cars with food "sinister" policy, but here's a more level-headed breakdown of the impact and limitations of farming for fuel...
...Soybean. A dietary staple in Asia for 2,000 years, soybeans today are increasingly grown for oil and animal feed. The U.S. leads the world in soybean and corn production, but it would have to turn 100% of both crops into fuel in order to offset just 11% of U.S. on-road fuel consumption...