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Penn National closes on Delphi casino site
Posted: February 5th, 2010, 1:55pm CST
Penn National Gaming Inc. is now the proud owner of two possible sites for its Columbus casino. -
Hawaii experiencing drought conditions
Posted: February 5th, 2010, 12:55pm CST
When it comes to rainfall, January was a dry month for most of Hawaii. -
Weyerhaeuser loses $175M in Q4
Posted: February 5th, 2010, 12:05pm CST
Weyerhaeuser Co. reported a net loss of $175 million, or a loss of 83 cents per share, which compares with a net loss of $1.2 billion, or a loss of $5.73 per share a year earlier. The results were worse than what analysts were expecting. (WY) -
Bunge swings to profit
Posted: February 4th, 2010, 3:21pm CST
Bunge Ltd. posted a profit in the fourth quarter, but Chairman and Chief Executive Alberto Weisser called the quarter a “disappointing end” to a “challenging year.” (BG) -
Albany beats Boston for ag conference
Posted: February 4th, 2010, 1:39pm CST
The Convention and Visitors Bureau in Albany County, N.Y., scored a victory recently when an agricultural trade association decided to move its annual conference from its longtime home in Boston to Albany. -
Monsanto to debut less-teary onion
Posted: February 4th, 2010, 10:41am CST
Monsanto Co. plans to debut a milder sweet onion at Schnucks. (MON) -
San Antonio Food Bank requests shoot up 53 percent
Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 4:45pm CST
The San Antonio Food Bank and Feeding America released a report Wednesday indicating that the amount of seniors and children assisted has risen dramatically in four years. -
Commerce official Hightower calls on Phila.-area to increase exports
Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 1:48pm CST
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dennis F. Hightower called on Philadelphia-area companies to work to increase exports and grow jobs in a speech at Drexel University Wednesday. -
Two Rivers Water acquires majority stake in SE Colorado water resources
Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 10:51am CST
Two Rivers Water Co. said Wednesday it has acquired a majority interest in southeast Colorado's Huerfano-Cucharas Irrigation Co. and plans to improve water resources in the area, including a dam near Walsenberg. -
Novus, World Trade Center launch $100,000 campaign for Meds & Food for Kids in Haiti
Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 10:21am CST
Novus International and the World Trade Center Saint Louis have teamed up to raise $100,000 by Feb. 12 for Meds & Food for Kids to help feed children and families in Haiti. -
Archer Daniels Midland profit falls 2%
Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 12:16pm CST
Archer Daniels Midland Co., which has operations in St. Louis, reported a 2 percent decline in profit and a 5 percent drop in sales for the second quarter on lower prices. (ADM) -
Dan and Katy Leese abruptly depart Sonoma's 585 Wine Partners
Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 12:07pm CST
Dan Leese, co-founder and president of 585 Wine Partners, left the company late last month, as did his wife and co-founder Katy Leese, the fast-growing wine company’s director of public relations and packaging. -
Weyerhaeuser-Mitsubishi in biomass fuel deal
Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 11:37am CST
Weyerhaeuser Co. said it’s signed a deal with Mitsubishi Corp. to explore possible future biomass-to-energy deals. (WY) -
60 Fla. counties declared disaster areas
Posted: February 1st, 2010, 4:30pm CST
Gov. Charlie Crist and state emergency management officials announced Monday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a Secretarial Disaster Declaration in 60 Florida counties in the aftermath of cold weather and freezes that occurred Jan. 2-14, 2010. -
Humane Society eyeing November ballot
Posted: February 1st, 2010, 4:25pm CST
The Humane Society of the United States has begun the battle it promised over a constitutional amendment Ohio voters approved last year over livestock care standards. -
Texas farmers join Haiti relief efforts
Posted: February 1st, 2010, 4:19pm CST
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples is urging the state’s agricultural producers to contribute food to needy people in Haiti still recovering from the devastating earthquakes. -
Plum Creek Q4 earnings, revenues fall
Posted: February 1st, 2010, 3:43pm CST
Fourth-quarter earnings at Plum Creek Timber Company Inc. fell to $28 million, or 17 cents per share, from $95 million, or 57 cents a share a year earlier. Revenues dropped to $258 million from $461 million in 2008. (PCL) -
Cargill, CHS to close 128-year-old Kansas mill
Posted: February 1st, 2010, 11:08am CST
Horizon Milling, a joint venture between Cargill Inc. and CHS Inc. announced Friday it will be closing a mill built in 1882. -
Biofuel plant in eastern Tennessee starts turning grass into gas
Posted: February 1st, 2010, 10:34am CST
A small-scale experimental biofuel plant has begun producing ethanol in eastern Tennessee, about a year and a half after it was announced by Gov. Phil Bredesen. -
Rapid Diagnostek developing bug-detection device
Posted: January 31st, 2010, 11:00pm CST
Rapid Diagnostek Inc., a firm developing a product that can quickly detect viruses and bacteria, has raised about $1.5 million in financing. -
Maryland wineries seek end to ‘crazy rules’
Posted: January 31st, 2010, 11:00pm CST
A toilet stands between John and Denise Wilkerson’s dream of turning their 45-acre farm into a winery. -
Hermann’s legacy lives on in hospital and green space
Posted: January 31st, 2010, 11:00pm CST
The name Hermann is spoken by many Houstonians every day. They may be referring to a hospital, a park, a street, a building or a public square. While the name is well-known, people may know little about the man behind the name: George Henry Hermann. -
Bank deal adds work for Columbia’s Mark Brandon
Posted: January 31st, 2010, 11:00pm CST
Mark Brandon’s job just got harder. -
North Pacific assets for sale
Posted: January 31st, 2010, 11:00pm CST
North Pacific Group Inc., Oregon’s third-largest private company, has set a Friday deadline to accept bids for its business units. -
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. to pay up to $1M to settle pay dispute
Posted: January 29th, 2010, 4:04pm CST
Poultry company Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. has agreed to pay up to $1 million to settle a suit filed by workers at the company's Dallas facility who said they should be paid for time spent putting on layers of protective gear. (PPC) -
Maui sugar plantation stays open, for now
Posted: January 29th, 2010, 2:55pm CST
The owner of Hawaii’s only sugar plantation may shut down operations next year, citing drought conditions and disputes over diverted water. (ALEX) -
Leprino Foods says it no longer gets milk from dairy accused of abusing cows
Posted: January 28th, 2010, 6:52pm CST
Denver cheese maker Leprino Foods Co. said Thursday that a New York dairy accused by an animal-rights group of abusing its cows no longer supplies one of its cheese plants with milk. -
Monsanto brings R&D facility to Kannapolis
Posted: January 28th, 2010, 8:05am CST
Agricultural-technology giant Monsanto Co. will establish a research-and-development operation at the N.C. Research Campus within six months. (MON) -
Front Range uses only 19% of Colorado’s water, report says
Posted: January 27th, 2010, 3:04pm CST
A new report on Colorado’s water usage concludes that the Front Range uses about 19 percent of the state’s water, yet generates between 80 and 86 percent of its economic activity and tax revenue. -
Applications open for agricultural grants
Posted: January 27th, 2010, 1:38pm CST
The N.C. Value-Added Cost Share program is accepting applications for the spring funding cycle. The program is administered by N.C. MarketReady, part of the educational outreach efforts of Greensboro’s N.C. A&T State University and Raleigh’s N.C. State University. It is supported by the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission to support the development of value-added agricultural operations, an emerging sector of the state’s agriculture. -
Bunge to sell Brazilian fertilizer assets for $3.8B
Posted: January 27th, 2010, 8:19am CST
Bunge Ltd. plans to sell its fertilizer nutrients assets in Brazil, including its interest in Fertilizantes Fosfatados S.A. (Fosfertil), for $3.8 billion in cash to Vale S.A. (VALE) (BG) -
SF investor in huge Marin land deal
Posted: January 26th, 2010, 3:27pm CST
San Francisco-based Virtu Investments has paid $4.5 million for the 865-acre Borello Ranch in West Marin, one of the largest land sales in Marin County in years. -
Target to stop selling farmed salmon
Posted: January 26th, 2010, 3:15pm CST
Target Corp., which has more than a dozen locations in the Raleigh-Durham area, on Tuesday said it has eliminated farmed salmon from its stores, instead selling only wild-caught Alaskan salmon. (TGT) -
Crispin Cider gets Fox Barrel Cider
Posted: January 26th, 2010, 1:04pm CST
Crispin Cider Co., which makes a high-end alcoholic cider, has bought Fox Barrel Cider Co. in a bid to broaden its brand and reach. -
Full text of Strickland's State of the State speech
Posted: January 26th, 2010, 12:31pm CST
What follows is the full text of Gov. Ted Strickland's annual address to the state legislature. The governor spoke at noon on Jan. 26 at the Ohio Statehouse: -
Target says no to farmed salmon
Posted: January 26th, 2010, 11:01am CST
Target Corp. on Tuesday said it has eliminated farmed salmon from its stores, instead selling only wild-caught Alaskan salmon. (TGT) -
Mexico OKs Monsanto corn seeds
Posted: January 25th, 2010, 2:34pm CST
Three types of Monsanto Co.’s genetically modified corn seed traits have won regulatory approval for import in Mexico. (MON) -
Former tribal leader knew to take advantage of opportunities
Posted: January 24th, 2010, 11:00pm CST
Ivan Makil grew up on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community near the corner of Pima and McDowell roads. He watched housing and commercial developments creep closer and closer to the reservation boundaries and pondered how one street could so definitively divide a land of rapid development and a land of farming. -
How Seattle conventions spread the wealth, even in thrifty times
Posted: January 24th, 2010, 11:00pm CST
Wendell and Naomi Wimberly couldn’t have been happier than to be in Seattle for the annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation. -
$25M biomass test plant big opportunity for Hawaii
Posted: January 24th, 2010, 11:00pm CST
The company planning to build a biomass plant in Kapolei said it chose the Islands for its multimillion-dollar test project because of the state’s commitment to “green” energy and accessibility to a variety of feedstocks that can be grown year-round. -
Receiver appointed for $1B North Pacific Group Inc.
Posted: January 21st, 2010, 5:36pm CST
The North Pacific Group Inc., Oregon’s third-largest private company, has been taken over by a court-appointed receiver after what appears to be at least three failed attempts to sell the company. -
Consumer groups seek ban on Monsanto sugar beets
Posted: January 21st, 2010, 2:32pm CST
Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety attorneys filed court papers this week on behalf of organic seed growers, conservation groups and food safety groups seeking a ban on Monsanto’s genetically engineered sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. (MON) -
Fla. Farm Bureau blasts new EPA standards
Posted: January 21st, 2010, 11:53am CST
The Florida Farm Bureau Federation has joined a growing number of groups blasting new water quality standards proposed last week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
Drought leaves 99% of Hawaii dry
Posted: January 20th, 2010, 5:05pm CST
Hawaii agriculture continues to be damaged by an unrelenting drought that has continued into the state’s rainy season. -
Coke partners to help African farmers
Posted: January 20th, 2010, 9:06am CST
The Coca-Cola Co., the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and nonprofit TechnoServe formed a four-year $11.5 million partnership to help 50,000 small fruit farmers in Uganda and Kenya boosts productivity and double their incomes by 2014. (KO) -
Abengoa, Mid-Kansas to partner on hybrid power plant
Posted: January 19th, 2010, 3:30pm CST
Abengoa Bioenergy and Mid-Kansas Electric Co. LLC announced Tuesday plans to develop the country’s first commercial-scale hybrid cellulosic ethanol and power plant. The facility will be built in Stevens County at a cost of $550 million and will have the ability to generate both electric power and cellulosic ethanol. -
Cargill donates $2M to Macalester for charter-school program in MN
Posted: January 19th, 2010, 10:08am CST
The Cargill Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to the new Center for School Change at Macalester College in St. Paul, intended to improve the academic and operational performance of Minneapolis-area charter public schools that serve a high percentage of students from low-income families. -
Delphi named as alternative site for casino
Posted: January 19th, 2010, 8:03am CST
Penn National Gaming Inc. has picked the former Delphi Automotive Systems LLC site as an alternate location for its Columbus casino. -
Online wine seller Vinfolio takes unusual ‘insolvency’ route
Posted: January 18th, 2010, 5:42pm CST
Vinfolio Inc., a San Francisco-based online wine seller that raised $4.5 million in venture funding last September, entered into an “Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors” filing late last week. The filing is a state-level alternative to filing under Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 for federal bankruptcy protection. -
Jacksonville shares ‘tastiest’ moniker
Posted: January 18th, 2010, 12:04pm CST
Jacksonville is among the featured cities in Florida’s Tastiest Catch, a new Web site launched by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.