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Sugar-HFCS study disputed
Another round in the fight between the sugar and corn sweeteners. The latest is a study from the University of Colorado Denver and the University of Florida which compared high fructose corn syrup and … [Read More...]
Featured: 2012 ASI Convention
Working to re-build the sheep industry
For Clint Krebs of Oregon, Vice President of the American Sheep Industry Association and chairman of the Re-Build Committee, the past several months have been enjoyable and quite rewarding. Krebs … [Read More...]
Managing For Profit
Riding the biodiesel roller coaster
Denny Mauser farms near the town of Early in west-central Iowa. Mauser was one of the founding members of the Western Iowa Energy biodiesel plant near Wall Lake and still serves on the company’s … [Read More...]
Rural Issues
Trend toward DDG corn oil extraction is picking up speed
More and more ethanol producers are starting to extract some of the corn oil from their distiller grains. With tight margins, they like the idea of adding an additional salable product to ethanol and … [Read More...]
Cyndi Young’s Two Cents
Educational opportunities at National Western Stock Show
My husband and I took a quick trip to Denver recently where Jim entertained (played guitar and sang) prior to the Simmental breed embryo sale and prior to the national Simmental breed cattle sale held … [Read More...]
Innovations
Pioneer official discusses seed supply, Plenish soybeans
At the recent Nebraska Ag Classic conference, Brownfield’s Ken Anderson visited with Mark Reisinger, senior manager for biotech affairs and regulatory with Pioneer. They discussed talk of a … [Read More...]
Healthy Living
Keep your produce fresher, longer
Maintaining fresh produce can be a challenge, but by keeping that in mind from the moment you walk into the grocery store you have a better chance of walking out with food that has a longer shelf … [Read More...]
Inside D.C.
Consolidate this, Mr. President
Commentary. I’ve just finished reading President Obama’s “fact sheet” on what the White House calls “reorganization” of the federal government – everyone else calls it … [Read More...]


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