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• For dollars’ worth of copper farmers out thousands

  October 14, 2012 in Nation/World DOS PALOS, Calif. (AP) — Cannon Michael is a folk hero across California’s agriculture heartland, where these days the price of scrap metal influences a farmer’s bottom line as much … 1

• NM company linked to illness expands peanut recall

  October 14, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Mexico food company that produced the peanut butter linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning has expanded an ongoing recall of its products to include …

• NM company linked to illness expands peanut recall

  October 13, 2012 in Health, Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Mexico food company that produced the peanut butter linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning has expanded an ongoing recall of its products to include …

• Idaho dairy workers charged with animal cruelty

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three former dairy workers with Idaho’s largest dairy operation have been charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty after undercover video shot by an animal rights group showed …

• Freeze, drought take bite out of fall tourism

  October 8, 2012 in Nation/World INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Devastating spring freezes and a historic drought have stripped some charm from rustic fall destinations, leaving some corn too short to create mazes, orchards virtually devoid of …

• Problems found at peanut butter plant in 2010

  October 5, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration found what it called “objectionable conditions” at a New Mexico peanut butter plant in 2010, two years before the current outbreak of …

• Drought worsens in some key Midwest farming states

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS — The nation’s worst drought in decades is showing no sign of letting up in several key Midwest farming states, worrying farmers harvesting the summer’s withered corn crop … 1

• Drought worsens in some key Midwest farming states

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s worst drought in decades is showing no sign of letting up in several key Midwest farming states, worrying farmers harvesting the summer’s withered corn …

• Chicago police find about 1,500 pot plants in city

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — In Chicago, a bustling urban metropolis where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just enough room … 2

• Chicago police find about 1,000 pot plants in city

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World CHICAGO (AP) — In Chicago, a bustling urban metropolis where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just enough room … 2

• Ranchers see increase in grass thefts amid drought

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World VAUGHN, N.M. (AP) — Petty crime and burglaries aren’t unusual in New Mexico’s isolated Guadalupe County, but lately Sheriff Michael Lucero has seen thieves steal something a bit unexpected — …

• Tests come back negative in Mich. search for Hoffa

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World DETROIT (AP) — Like many others that came before it, the latest search for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa has come up empty. Tests on soil samples gathered last week …

• Authorities: Oregon farmer eaten by his hogs

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World COQUILLE, Ore. (AP) — Oregon authorities are investigating how a farmer was eaten by his hogs. Terry Vance Garner, 69, never returned after he set out to feed his animals … 2

• Peanut butter recall includes major retailers

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A recall of peanut butter and other nut products has some of the country’s largest grocery stores pulling store-brand products off their shelves. New Mexico-based Sunland Inc. …

• Bacon shortage ‘baloney,’ but prices to rise

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS (AP) — Bacon lovers can relax. They’ll find all they want on supermarket shelves in the coming months, though their pocketbooks may take a hit. The economics of … 3

• Calif dairies going broke due to feed, milk prices

  September 29, 2012 in Nation/World HANFORD, Calif. (AP) — In nearly six decades of running a dairy in central California, Mary Cameron made a name for herself in a male-dominated industry: She led several dairy … 2

• No sign of remains in new Mich. search for Hoffa

  September 28, 2012 in Nation/World ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Jimmy Hoffa is presumed dead, cocooned in mystery and innuendo and missing for the past 37 years. Patricia Szpunar just hopes that if the former Teamsters …

• Stubborn drought maintains grip on most of US

  September 27, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS (AP) — A weekly update on U.S. drought conditions shows the nation’s worst drought in decades slightly worsened in the lower 48 states with the Midwest corn harvest …

• Rainfall easing drought in certain corn states

  September 20, 2012 ST. LOUIS (AP) — With hopes of a once-stellar corn crop dimmed by a summer of drought, Gerald Jenkins doesn’t expect the unfolding harvest to burden his co-op’s grain elevators, …

• Judge: Texas firm must pay disabled workers $1.4M

  September 19, 2012 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Texas company that profited for decades by supplying mentally disabled workers to an Iowa turkey plant at wages of 41 cents per hour must … 1

• FDA urged to set standards for arsenic in rice

  September 19, 2012 in Health WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration may consider new standards for the levels of arsenic in rice as consumer groups are calling for federal guidance on how much …

• APNewsBreak: BPI sues ABC News for defamation

  September 13, 2012 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Beef Products Inc. filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against ABC News for its coverage of a meat product that critics have dubbed “pink slime,” alleging that …

• Rain eases drought as Midwest corn harvest unfolds

  September 13, 2012 ST. LOUIS (AP) — The latest update on the nation’s worst drought in decades shows that farmers bringing in their weakened corn crops caught some relief with recent rains that …

• NYC big-soda crackdown plan goes to vote Thursday

  September 12, 2012 in Health NEW YORK (AP) — One of New York City’s most ambitious efforts to prod residents to live healthier appears poised to pass as a health panel takes up a plan …

• Teen boy, Pa. Hershey school settle AIDS bias case

  September 12, 2012 in Health HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy and his mother will receive $700,000 from the settlement of an AIDS discrimination lawsuit against a private boarding school that refused to enroll … 1

• CDC reports incidents of tainted ricotta cheese

  September 12, 2012 in Health WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials say ricotta cheese tainted with listeria bacteria is linked to 14 illnesses including at least one death. The imported Italian ricotta salata cheese distributed …

• Two-thirds of Indonesian men smoke, tops in world

  September 11, 2012 in Health JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian men rank as the world’s top smokers, with two out of three of them lighting up in a country where cigarettes cost pennies and tobacco …

• Girl golfer in Idaho fights to play with the boys

  September 9, 2012 BUHL, Idaho (AP) — For a golf ball waiting to be clubbed, physics are everything. Swing outside-in and the dimpled sphere slices into the rough. Hit it too high and … 1

• Isaac’s remnants relieves some drought states

  September 6, 2012 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hurricane Isaac’s remnants dumped heavy rain on some key Midwest farming states, dramatically lessening the drought there while corn-producing heavyweights Iowa and Nebraska missed out on …

• Iowa study aimed at making tractors safer for kids

  September 5, 2012 in Health CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Researchers who hope to prevent children from dying in tractor accidents are turning to a state-of-the-art driving simulator to help determine when kids can safely operate …

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