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Hogs, Livestock

Maple Leaf dishes up first-quarter profit

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Reuters — Canadian meat processor Maple Leaf Foods reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by higher earnings in its prepared meats business. Adjusted operating earnings in the meat products segment rose nearly eight-fold to $61.3 million in the Toronto company’s first quarter, helped by lower operating costs and price increases. The company, whose brands include
Eggs are a healthful and budget-friendly food
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Eggs are a healthful and budget-friendly food

Prairie Fare: Heavenly Devilled Eggs

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A couple of weeks ago, my daughters and I were preparing food one afternoon for guests arriving the next day. I wrote a list of things to do. My older daughter enjoys eggs, so she wanted to complete the “hard cook one-dozen eggs” item from my list. Although “hard boiled” often is used to describe
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Crops, Weather

California communities beg for relief from drought restrictions

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Sacramento | Reuters — California communities where a wet winter has filled reservoirs and begun ameliorating the state’s catastrophic four-year drought begged water regulators on Wednesday to reduce or eliminate emergency conservation measures imposed last year. Facing pushback from aggravated consumers under the ongoing rules, water utilities say they will have little credibility asking for
Opinion

Editorial: The trouble with science: it changes

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Growing up on the farm in the 1960s, two events caused a dramatic shift in the family’s eating habits. First, the cow died. She was replaced with skim milk powder, which scientifically speaking, offered similar nutrition, was less expensive, stored better and was much more convenient than maintaining a cow and milking two times a
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Livestock

Costco plans chicken plant in Nebraska

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Reuters — Costco Wholesale Corp. is considering building a poultry-processing plant in Nebraska, according to a local development council, a move that would give the retailer tighter control over its chicken supplies. The facility, if built in Nebraska’s Dodge County, would create 1,100 jobs, work with local chicken farmers and invest $180 million in the
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Livestock, News

Zimbabwe drought opens can of worms for poultry farmers

With feed in short supply, feeding maggots produced from waste 
looks to be a winner for drought-stricken nation

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Lovemore Kuwana cheerily lifts the lid of a container full of fresh maggots in his backyard, which he will feed to the poultry he keeps once the worms are dried. Amid Zimbabwe’s worst drought in 25 years, which has killed more than 19,000 cattle in the last few months and left 2.8 million people facing
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Livestock

Bayer to consider shedding animal health unit

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Leverkusen, Germany | Reuters –– Bayer might look into selling its animal health division if it continues to struggle to find takeover targets for the business, the German drugmaker’s incoming chief executive said. “Animal Health is a business that we have been trying for many years to strengthen strategically, that is to say inorganically. That

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