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NEW YORK - Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store. In the latest bout of food inflation, beef, pork, poultry and even eggs, cheese and milk are expected to get more expensive as livestock owners go out of business or are forced to slaughter more cattle, hogs, turkeys and chickens to cope with rocketing costs for corn-based animal feed. Floods engulfed an estimated 2 million or...
THE rural property market reached a new record for the three months to May with the national farm median price hitting $1.86 million. This was up from April's record of $1.81 million and up 51.8% on the May 2007 figure. The dairy industry median of $4.05 million over the three months was up from $3.9 million. That was despite dairy farm sales being slightly down to 147 from 163 to April. "Confidence in the rural sector shows no signs of waning," Real Estate Institute of New Zealand...
By GRAHAM, Kathy THE NUMBERS Major sales listed by PGG Wrightsons in the past 12 months have included: A 54.4ha Matamata farm producing 60,000kg milksolids, sold under the hammer for $4.82 million ($89,000/ha, including dairy company shares) A 72.5ha Matamata farm producing 67,000kg milksolids, sold for $6.2 million ($85,500/ha, including dairy company shares) A 60ha Tirau farm producing 60,000 kg milksolids, sold for $3 million ($50,000/ha, including dairy company shares) A 32ha bare...
By Philip Marcelo; Journal Staff Writer Now on the National Register of Historic Places, the Abbot Run Valley Road dairy farm is eligible for state and federal grants. * * * CUMBERLAND - David Brindle split his childhood in the late 1950s working on the Abbot Run Valley Road dairy farm owned for generations by his mother's family, the Franklins, and his father's poultry farm on Little Pond County Road. Brindle, the administrator of the Franklin family estate, says the work of milking...
WASHINGTON -- Rural students perform better in science than their urban counterparts, and rural teachers are generally happy with their schools, a federal study says.While many education reports examine urban issues, this Education Department study provides a snapshot of what's happening in rural schools. In all, about a third of U.S. public schools are located in rural areas. Generally, areas with fewer than 500 people per square mile are considered rural by the Census Bureau.When it comes...
WASHINGTON -- Rural students perform better in science than their urban counterparts, and rural teachers are generally happy with their schools, a federal study says.While many education reports examine urban issues, this Education Department study provides a snapshot of what's happening in rural schools. In all, about a third of U.S. public schools are located in rural areas. Generally, areas with fewer than 500 people per square mile are considered rural by the Census Bureau.When it comes...
By Chris Buckley BEIJING (Reuters) - China has spelled out an ambitious plan to improve farmers' lives and productivity in response to rising fears about the gulf between the country's growing cities and struggling villages. On Tuesday, the government issued a program to create a "new socialist countryside" in coming years, promising increased support for farmers, improved schools and healthcare for rural families, and an end to decades of discrimination against rural migrants....
