Around the Country
As Silence Falls on Chicago Trading Pits, a Working-Class Portal Also Closes
New York Times
Most of the futures pits inside the Chicago Board of Trade building, an Art Deco tower that looms over downtown's LaSalle Street, are scheduled to close by July after being choked by a decade of technological advancement that has made face-to-face trading largely obsolete.
Boosting Rural America Remains a Priority Southwest Farm Press
U.S. Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack addressed the need to boost rural economies while complementing production agriculture as the latest farm bill is rolled out.
Farm Bill Program Decisions Loom March 31 Farm Futures
A lot of farmers have March 31 circled on their calendars. That's the day, of course, that USDA releases its annual spring Prospective Plantings and quarterly Grain Stocks reports. But March 31 is also the deadline to make farm bill program decisions.
Farm Bill Update: Your Questions Answered Delta Farm Press
With just one week to go, Bobby Coats, professor in the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, and Anita Wilson, agricultural program specialist with USDA FSA office in Arkansas, answer your most pressing questions.
Health and Nutrition
Sure, Cheap Wine May Have High Levels of Arsenic, But is That Dangerous?
Modern Farmer
There's no law being broken here; the EPA limit of 10 parts per billion are for drinking water, not wine. And certainly the winemakers will make the case (that's a very good pun, go back and look at it again) that people don't, or shouldn't, drink as much wine as water, and thus the higher levels are unimportant in the grand scheme of long-term arsenic levels in the body.
Science and Technology
Fact-Checking the GMO Labeling Debate The Hill
The labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods is quickly becoming one of the most hotly debated food policy issues across the county and for good reason. In the absence of federal leadership, states have led the way by passing mandatory legislation intended to prevent consumer deception and give consumers the right to know what they are buying and feeding their families.
Three Years of Field Trials with Nitrogen-Efficient Rice Demonstrate Significant Yield Increases Business Wire
Over the three years of field trials, the leading rice line with Arcadia's NUE trait out-yielded control lines by an average of 27 percent. The trials included both irrigated lowland and rain-fed upland locations. In the third year trial, at 50 percent of normal applied nitrogen fertilizer, the leading NUE rice line out-produced the control line by 33 percent.
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