Practical farming.
Byline: Randi Bjornstad The Register-Guard There's a lot more to running a successful family farm than sowing seeds in neat rows or trucking hamburger-bound steers to the nearest livestock auction. Jon Broome, instructor for Lane Community College's Farm Business Management Program, spends his waking hours...

Cattle helper dies in police custody.
MUMBAI: A 26-year-old youth, who was arrested by the Goregaon police for illegal possession of arms on Monday, died within an hour of being taken into custody. The police claimed that Prem Yadav, who worked as a helper in the cattle market at Goregaon (east), suffered from...

Cattle smuggling thrives along Bangla border.
Byline: Vishwa Mohan NEW DELHI: Border Security Force (BSF) constable Gurmail Singh, who fired at his colleagues apparently because he could not stand their "corruption", may find himself in the dock, but he has blown the lid of what has been commonly speculated that there is a...

Chicken out, fish prices soar.
NEW DELHI: Planning to make amends for the lack of butter chicken with some yummy fish curry? Well, digest this if you can: Fish prices in the wholesale market have shot up by 30-40 per cent and it may go higher if the bird flu scare continues. The prices...

Premium Standard Farms, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Premium Standard Farms, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.06 per share, which will be paid on January 19, 2007, to all common stockholders of record as of December 22, 2006. This dividend has been...

NCDEX charts roadmap to beef up farmer's returns.
Byline: Atmadip Ray KOLKATA: The commodity markets may soon enter into the next stage of reform. Farmers, who have now no choice but to to sell their produce in mandis, may soon be free to sell foodgrains anywhere they want to through commodity exchanges.The National Commodity &...

Cuba resumes Canadian beef imports.
Cuba will reopen its border to a wide range of Canadian beef products, the Canadian government announced Dec. 14, in a report carried by Nebraska's Midwest Messenger. Beef trade between the two countries was halted since last year's discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Canada. Before...

Health scare: It's now getting fishy.
Byline: Vandana Soni Bakshi Mutton's not the winner in the bird flu scare as health conscious junta settles for fish instead. Be a vegetarian, achcha hai, specially in the times of bird flu. But not so for our Lucknowites, who might have since gone easy...

U.S. exporters win at Canada's expense.
The cheap U.S. dollar is hurting Cuba's economy by causing sharp increases in food prices worldwide. Were the world food economy simple--with Cuba earning high-value euros from tourism, converting them into cheaper dollars and then buying U.S. food products with those dollars--Cuba would benefit. But...

Chicken sales dip 75% in Maharashtra.
MUMBAI: Butter chicken is no longer the dish of choice at the hundreds of restaurants and 'dhabas' spread over Maharashtra. Sale of broiler chicken has fallen by 50per cent to 75per cent in Mumbai, as many meat-eaters eschewed chicken, over the past few days. Surprisingly, chicken prices...