Papers please! Big farmer is watching.
BRANDI CALDERWOOD and her steer, Walker, were thrown out of the Colorado State Fair last year--not because Calderwood had cheated but because she hadn't registered Walker with the federal government. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is rolling out its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). The aim is...

Turkey Offers Crude Oil Lifeline To India Via Israel.
During a February visit to New Delhi, Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan offered to facilitate the supply of crude oil to India from Central Asia via Israel through a combination of overland pipelines and super-tankers. Under the plan, crude oil transported through Turkey's extensive pipeline infrastructure from Central Asia...

Company Watch - American Airlines.
Apr 21, 2008 American Airlines, Continental Airlines and Southwest all reported losses for the first quarter of 2008. American said its recent flight cancellations earlier month will cost the airline in the ihigh tens of millions,i and as a result, American will reduce capacity and sustain its...

Saudis, Big Oil gouging Americans.
OLEAN -- Last week I had occasion to fly from Buffalo to Washington and back to attend a newsmaker luncheon at the National Press Club, an organization in which I have retained my longstanding membership. Same-day travel. Non-stop. Depart early morning, return in the evening. Late reservation with no...

SUEZ Energy North America Acquires Interest in Queens-Based Power Plant.
ENERGY RESOURCE-23 May 2008-SUEZ Energy North America Acquires Interest in Queens-Based Power Plant(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com SUEZ Energy North America has acquired a 30.45% equity interest in the 575-megawatt (MW) Astoria Energy Power Plant from SCS Energy. Primarily fueled by natural gas, the facility began...

Nutritive and economic values of corn distiller's dried grains with solubles in broiler diets.
ABSTRACT : A feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effects of the addition of corn distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to broiler diets on growth performance and meat characteristics. A total of 3,200 d-old, unsexed Cobb-500 broiler chicks were randomly allotted to 16 pens (replicates), with 200...

Global food prices on the rise.
The recent precipitous climb in global food prices is nothing less than "mass murder," according to UN food envoy Jean Ziegler. In a recent interview with an Austrian newspaper, Ziegler, commenting on the climb in commodities prices that have triggered food riots in Haiti and growing lines from Latin...

Airline Finance News.
Apr 7, 2008 Exacerbating airline industry woe, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) downgraded its industry-wide profit expectations for 2008 to $4.5 billion. This, says IATA, is the second downgrading of its 2008 forecast. "We still expect a positive bottom line of US$4.5 billion, but it's turning...

Fitch Downgrades JetBlue's IDR to 'B-'; Outlook Negative.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-15 May 2008-Fitch Downgrades JetBlue's IDR to 'B-'; Outlook Negative(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Fitch Ratings has downgraded the debt ratings of JetBlue Airways (JBLU) as follows: --Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'B-' from 'B'; --Senior unsecured convertible notes to...

Company Watch - Gol Linhas Aereas.
May 5, 2008 Gol Linhas Aereas net revenue jumped 54.3 percent in the first quarter from a year before and 11.4 percent from the fourth quarter to BRR1.6 billion, lifted by a surge in passenger traffic. Gol and Varig transported 6.4 million travelers in the quarter, a...