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Modified Grain Stocks Report Offers a Golden Opportunity
National Hog Farmer
If your cost structure is close to that represented by the ISU estimates and you can realize the average Iowa-Minnesota basis of the past five years, you could have locked in profits of $13.22/head for all hogs sold in 2012 at Friday's closing corn, ...

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Sen. Klobuchar secures funding for critical wolf management program
Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
“This program is critical to keeping Minnesota livestock and residents safe, and a gap in this protection is simply unacceptable,” Klobuchar said. “That is why I worked closely with Secretary Vilsack to secure funding for the program until the wolf can ...
Feds find money for Minnesota wolf controlDuluth News Tribune
Feds to Fund Wolf Trapping in MinnesotaFOX 9 News
Agriculture secretary promises to keep wolf trapping program funded in MinnesotaThe Republic
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Murphy-Brown's Don Butler Appointed to USDA's Agricultural Technical Advisory ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The appointment was made by US Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack. Butler's appointment is effective Oct. 1 and will expire on June 9, 2015. "It's a great honor to have one of our employees appointed to the Agricultural Technical Advisory ...

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Looking Back - 1986: Minnesota West celebrates 50 years
Worthington Daily Globe
Making his first trip to the Minnesota Junior Livestock Show and exhibiting a $200 calf, 17-year-old Roger Bultman of Fulda walked off with the grand championship. Dr. SN Kingrey, local veterinarian, died Sunday at 1:15 pm at the Worthington clinic, ...

Minnesota farmers wrestle with one consequence of rising land values: higher ...
Pioneer Press
The higher prices, though, reflect good times for many Minnesota farmers. Compared with 2009, median net farm income in 2010 soared 260 percent to nearly $120000, thanks to a rebound in the livestock sector and robust grain prices, according to a ...

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Minnesota farmers wrestle with one consequence of rising land values: higher ...
Pioneer Press
The higher prices, though, reflect good times for many Minnesota farmers. Compared with 2009, median net farm income in 2010 soared 260 percent to nearly $120000, thanks to a rebound in the livestock sector and robust grain prices, according to a ...

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Bovine tuberculosis restrictions lifted
Clovis News Journal
And, Bradley said, the restrictions subjected dairy and beef cattle producers to a series of costly and lengthy tests. “It's expensive and a pain,” said Charlie Rogers, owner and general manager of Clovis Livestock Auction. ...
Bovine Tuberculosis Restrictions LiftedABQ Journal (subscription)

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Soybean stocks rise 69 percent
Hutchinson Leader
by Matt McMillan The Minnesota September 1 Grain Stocks Survey estimated SOYBEANS stored in all positions at 25.2 million bushels, up 69 percent from a year earlier, according to the US Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics ...

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From 2007: A glimpse into the life of a trapper
Duluth News Tribune
His biggest surprise over more than 30 years has been how little livestock wolves actually kill in Minnesota. Of the 8000 or so farms in northern and central Minnesota where wolves roam, fewer than 150 have verified wolf attacks in an average year ...

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Grain Markets Decline Sharply
Corn and Soybean Digest (blog)
Cash grain prices in Lake Crystal, MN, on Sept. 23 were $5.92/bu. for corn and $11.64 for soybeans, which are still very good harvesttime grain prices compared to recent years; however, theses prices are well below cash grain prices a few weeks ago. ...

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Upper Midwest wheat crop smaller than last year
BusinessWeek
... though officials expect the grain to be of better protein quality. Wet conditions in the spring and excessive heat and humidity in the summer all worked against wheat yields in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, Agweek reported. ...

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Farmer charged in protected birds' deaths
UPI.com
16 (UPI) -- A Minnesota farmer was charged with annihilating a pelican colony that is a protected species by killing hundreds of chicks, police said. Craig L. Staloch, 59, a grain farmer near Minnesota Lake, was charged in federal court in Minneapolis ...
Minn. farmer charged with killing hundreds of pelican chicks, a protected speciesMinneapolis Star Tribune

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