Heavy rains raising Lake Erie phosphorous load for algae
"During these wet years like we had this year, and in 2011 where we had record-breaking rainstorms in May and June, a lot of phosphorus is carried off in runoff and gets into Lake Erie.”
Impacts of weather, dollar, trade driving meat prices
Both pork and chicken inventories should keep prices down heading into winter – and there could be room for U.S. retail pork prices to head lower. And drought-breaking rains this year in most of the Great Plains are keeping cow-calf producers in expansion mode. Heifers are staying on the ranch and out of the feedlot.
Dean plant's shutdown to cost Indiana city lost revenue, 130+ jobs
May layoffs followed Meijer’s opening of a $100 million dairy processing facility for milk, cottage cheese and yogurt at its Tipp City, Ohio, warehouse complex.
“There are a number of problems here, but success to me would be to push back and have the EPA stay within their primary responsibility – that is, navigable waterways and those areas that lead directly into a waterway.”
Michigan reinstating produce collection of $2 per $1,000
The failure of a grain company last year resulted in 108 claims - $3.5 million - being parceled out to farmers who did not get paid for delivered grain.
