05/15/2008
Julie Harker
Brownfield: Corn News
Grassley takes on those behind ethanol "smear campaign"
Senator Charles
Grassley of Iowa took to the Senate floor Thursday to take on the critics of corn ethanol and biofuels – who are engaged in what he calls a sophisticated political operative and public relations effort to blame alternative fuels for high food and feed prices.
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05/15/2008
John
Perkins
Brownfield: Corn News
Corn, soybean and wheat exports within estimates
The United States Department of Agriculture reports that corn, soybean and wheat export sales, for the week
ending May 8, 2008, were within analysts' projections.
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05/15/2008
Julie Harker
Brownfield: Corn News
Graves says he told Bush, 'You're wrong,' about Farm
Bill
Congressman Sam Graves, the only Missourian on the House Ag Committee – and a farm bill conferee, spoke with Brownfield Wednesday after the House passed the
farm bill conference report, “Finally, it passed, and that was the frustrating part.”
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05/14/2008
Julie Harker
Brownfield: Corn News
"We have a temperature problem", meteorologist says
Much of the nation’s Cornbelt has delayed corn planting because of the wet weather – but there’s a bigger concern, “We have a temperature problem that’s going to be a bigger
problem than the rain over the next two weeks.”
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05/13/2008
Julie Harker
Brownfield: Corn News
Wet weather adding to planting complexity, Kruse says
The wet weather is adding another
level of complexity to farming decisions in Missouri and throughout the Heartland.
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05/13/2008
Julie Harker
Brownfield: Corn News
Grassley says he’d likely support a veto override
Senate farm bill conferee Chuck Grassley of Iowa says he will likely vote for a veto override, if President Bush follows through on his farm bill veto threat.
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