This week on Money Talks, your chatty hosts Joseph Freeman and Siddhartha Vaidyanathan speak with our seasoned agriculture reporter, Bridget Macdonald. Climate-change legislation has been proposed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, but Illinois agricultural groups are up in arms, saying the bill has the potential to raise input costs rather [...]
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Written By: sidvee on June 3, 2009
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Written By: bcm141 on May 19, 2009
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BY BRIDGET MACDONALD - MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
More than 400 people flocked to Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center Monday evening, hungry for kernels of wisdom from watchdog food writer Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.”
In the program, a conversation with [...]
Written By: bcm141 on May 15, 2009
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BY BRIDGET MACDONALD - MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
In the wake of a succession of food safety scares over the past few years involving the likes of tomatoes, spinach and peanuts, the House Agricultural Committee is taking a preemptive strike against food contamination in the expanding field of organic production.
Written By: bcm141 on May 14, 2009
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BRIDGET MACDONALD – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Although the ethanol market has been flooded with surplus over the past several months, forcing many producers to idle production or drop out of the business entirely, the industry is showing signs of life in the Corn Belt.
Six of the 11 ethanol plants in Illinois [...]
Written By: bcm141 on April 28, 2009
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BY BRIDGET MACDONALD – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Wet April weather has stalled spring planting for many farmers in the Midwest, but home gardeners are already anticipating their harvests.
While sales of cut flowers and potted plants have wilted over the past year according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Written By: bcm141 on April 16, 2009
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By Bridget Macdonald - MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
The Union of Concerned Scientists published a report Wednesday questioning the link between agricultural biotechnology and crop yields in the United States. In addition to ruffling a few feathers, the report demonstrated that even in the data-driven world of science, semantics matter.
Pick the [...]
Written By: bcm141 on April 1, 2009
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BY BRIDGET MACDONALD – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
For the first time in nearly two years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will compensate dairy farmers for low milk prices by providing payments through the Milk Income Loss Contract program.
Beginning this week, the USDA expects to [...]
Written By: marjorie on August 13, 2008
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BY MARJORIE KORN, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Moline, Ill.-based Deere & Co. [[DE]] posted a net income of $575.2 million, or $1.32 per share, for the third quarter ended July 31, compared with $537.2 million, or $1.18 per share, in the year earlier period. But the 7 percent rise in [...]
Written By: Administrator on May 30, 2008
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Don’t play with your food: Are hedge funds to blame for rising food prices?
By Frank Carlson
May 29, 2008
How would you like to earn a million dollars today, just to have it disappear tomorrow? Worse, how would you like it if this happened every day?
That’s exactly what grain elevators are experiencing as record commodity prices [...]
Written By: Administrator on May 3, 2008
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Chicagoans hungry for books about food, publishers happy to serve up more
by Molly Seltzer
Apr 28, 2008
Loaves and popovers grow lofty and puffy because yeast feeds on sugar and releases carbon dioxide. These rising breads are causing something else to rise — the popularity of food books.
In the [...]
