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Lust for Crust 6th Annual Bucktown Apple Pie Contest at Holstein Park CHICAGO, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Friends of Holstein Park: (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100907/DC60587) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100907/DC60587) WHAT: The 6th Annual Bucktown Apple Pie Contest is a fierce competition between 150 bakers in front of a panel of celebrity judges, including Gail Gand, and foodies for the coveted blue ribbon....

HOUSTON, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Plains Exploration & Production Company (NYSE: PXP) ("PXP" or the "Company") announces an apparent prolific confirmation well at the Friesian Project in the Deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico. In November of 2006, the original discovery well, Friesian #1, was drilled to a total depth of 29,414 feet and encountered more than 120 feet of net oil pay in Green Canyon Block 599. Friesian #2 offset well is located in the adjacent Green Canyon Block...

By Jenny Laue A staple treat for the summer holidays is ice cream and one North- East dairy farm, looking to diversify, made good use of that fact. Jenny Laue visits Archer?s near Darlington MOST of us drink milk every day of our lives. We need it to grow healthy bones and teeth and it provides us with a large amount of our daily vitamins. Yet, a large proportion of our population don?t give their breakfastmilk a second thought. Some of us really don?t know how this daily essential is...

By BISHOP, Diane DON'T skip 50 percent sharemilking in the quest for farm ownership, said Murchison dairy farmers Dave and Jane Field. The young couple, who bought their own farm a year ago, recommended every farmer go 50:50 sharemilking before they bought their first farm. "It gave us the ground we needed to become farm owners. "I've seen people go lower order and they've struggled financially," Mr Field said. Mr Field became involved in dairying by rearing calves, relief milking and...

By Anne Cook, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Jul. 29--MANSFIELD -- George Kasbergen's dairy has given new life to an Illinois industry that's been in decline for years. Kasbergen operated huge dairies in California and Wisconsin before he built Stone Ridge Dairy, 5 miles north of Mansfield, in 2001. Here, he milks 3,100 Holsteins, almost three times as many as the next largest Illinois dairy. All the milk goes to Grande Cheese in Brownsville, Wis., a manufacturer of high-end...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand scientists are breeding a herd of cows that produce lower-fat milk after the chance discovery of a natural gene mutation in one animal.Milk from the cows is also high in health-boosting omega-3 fatty acids and makes butter that spreads as easily as margarine even when chilled, biotechnology company Vialactia said Monday.Scientists discovered a cow, later named Marge by researchers, carrying the mutant gene in a dairy herd they were testing in 2001,...

For nearly four years, dairy farmer Greg Wiles has poured milk from his cloned cows down the drain in compliance with a voluntary ban on food from cloned livestock.Now in financial straits, Wiles says he may be forced to sell his cloned cows for hamburger.The Food and Drug Administration says that's probably safe, but pressure from the food industry has kept the agency from actually approving it. Milk and meat marketers worry that consumers won't accept food from cloned animals.Wiles says he...

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) - Farmers in west central Ohio are hoping to preserve some breeds of livestock considered endangered by conservationists.Jerome Kingery has milking Devon cows along with Leicester longwool sheep, Narragansett turkeys, Nankin bantam chickens and Dominique chickens on his farm north of Yellow Springs.Outside Fort Loramie, Leroy Meyer grazes about a dozen Dutch belted cows among his 60-cow herd.Both breeds of cattle are considered critical by the American Livestock...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has confirmed its 21st case of mad cow disease in a 69-month-old Holstein cow on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, the Farm Ministry said. The meat and intestines from the slaughtered cow will be destroyed and will not enter the food supply, the ministry said in a statement dated December 10. The cow was born in February 2000, which is before Japan banned the use of meat-and-bone (MBM) meal as feed for all animals, the ministry said. MBM is thought to...

WASHINGTON -- As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to lift a voluntary ban on selling food from cloned animals, the agency is getting some resistance from an unusual source: the dairy industry. Trade groups for farmers and companies that use dairy products are not enthusiastic about introducing milk from cloned cows into the marketplace, fearing consumers would be leery about the products. "There's a strong general feeling among our members that consumers are not...