St. Joseph, Mo.-based pork processor Triumph Foods announced it recently began a $7.5 million expansion that will add about 105 employees to its workforce of 2,800.

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Whole Foods Market Inc (WFM)., the largest natural-goods grocer in the U.S., boosted its forecast for earnings this year after sales at established locations increased and second-quarter profit climbed 20 percent.

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The nation’s latest media darling is a 105-year-old Texan who credits her longevity to her life-long devotion to “hard work and bacon.”

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The nation's biggest banks are going on the offensive to fend off growing efforts in Washington to rein them in.

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R-CALF USA and 20 other livestock and consumer groups sent a joint letter to leaders of the agriculture committees in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate urging the inclusion of a ban on packer ownership of livestock and other livestock and poultry reforms in the 2013 Farm Bill.

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Most of the discussion in the corn market has centered on U.S. planting progress, the likely magnitude of planted acreage, and the U.S. average yield potential. The pace of planting as revealed by the USDA’s weekly Crop Progress report

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During the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference in Florida in February, Sean Connolly, chief executive officer of the Hillshire Brands Co., outlined Hillshire’s strategy for reinvigorating the company’s packaged lunchmeat business.

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A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.

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Tyson Foods Inc.'s (TSN) fiscal second-quarter earnings fell 43% as higher beef and chicken prices weren't enough to offset the meat processor's increased costs.

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March pork exports slumped on lower results in several mainstay markets, while US beef were down in volume from a year ago but edged slightly higher in value.

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CF Industries joined commentators cutting forecasts for US corn plantings, thanks to the slow start to the seeding season which left the fertilizer group nursing a 12.5% drop in sales for the January-to-March period.

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In his latest commentary, the National Restaurant Association's Chief Economist Bruce Grindy overlays new consumer research with the latest jobs report. Although the employment situation showed renewed signs of life in recent months, consumers’ assessment of the economy remains bleak.

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Rasheen Aldridge and a couple of his coworkers did not report Wednesday for their 11 a.m. shift at the Jimmy John's in Soulard.

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With the May 23 deadline looming for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue a final rule on COOL, in order to comply with a WTO ruling, National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement...

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The burger wars are coming. And, as America's expansion-minded burger chains strategically position themselves across the country, Las Vegas is starting to emerge as ground zero.

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Triumph Foods, a leading pork processing company, will invest $7.5 million to expanding its facility in St. Joseph, Missouri, with plans to create 105 new full-time jobs within one year, Missouri Economic Development officials said.

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Beef and dairy industry understanding of climate change and weather variability on cattle is to receive a boost in the form of $19.5 million for investment in education, extension and research.

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Whole Foods Market is recalling bulk curried chicken salad and bulk vegan curried chick'n salad because in some stores these items may have been sold with reversed labels causing undeclared soy and egg allergens. Due to the label mix-up, allergens were undeclared; the vegan chick'n salad contains soy, and the curried chicken salad contains egg.

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If the thought of officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) flying over your farm makes you nervous, now is the time to get your questions answered and fix any potential problems. Both the Iowa Department of Natural Resource (DNR) and the EPA have indicated they will be doing inspections of livestock and poultry farms around the state, including on-site inspections, aerial surveillance and computer-based inspections (i.e. looking at the images on Google Earth and other Web sites with aerial images), says the Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers (CSIF).

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Chickens likely raised with arsenic-based drugs result in chicken meat that has higher levels of inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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U.S. farmers will produce record corn and soybean crops this year, providing a much-needed supply to replenish dangerously low stockpiles, the Agriculture Department predicted Friday.

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New Cattlemen’s Group Hits the Ground Running at K-State

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Drier weather early this week in the U.S. crop belt will allow active corn plantings, countering the slowest seeding pace in nearly 30 years, an agricultural meteorologist said on Monday.

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Reporters at Bloomberg News used private information from Bloomberg terminals to spy on employees at Goldman Sachs.

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National Livestock Credit is pleased to announce the purchase of Superior Livestock Auction, Inc. National Livestock and cattlemen from several states have formed a limited partnership to acquire Superior.

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Monsanto Co. (MON) can use its patents to prevent farmers from planting later generations of genetically engineered seeds without paying for them.

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If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, "diversity" should be recognized as the undisputed world champion

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Spending habits have changed in four years with American shoppers spending almost 10 percent more in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same time frame in 2009. Some of the budget lines with the highest increase are necessities including groceries and gas.

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You should have read it. The story was in all the newspapers last month. Issued by the Food and Drug Administration, it was called the NARMS (National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System) study and it created panic in the streets.

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New-crop corn production of 14.14 billion bushels will surpass last year’s output by 31% despite delayed planting that has already cut yield potential significantly, according to USDA’s latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) released May 10.

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One person's trash may be another person's treasure, but sometimes, trash is just trash.

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Acadian Fine Foods, LLC, a Church Point, La. establishment, is recalling approximately 17,037 pounds of pork stew and chicken stew products because of misbranding and undeclared allergens. The products contain whey and soy, known allergens which are not declared on the product label.

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Hooking both the high-end customer and value shopper continues to challenge the Wendy’s Co., as the fast-food chain works to balance marketing of its 99c items and premium products.

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Corn futures tumbled, capping the biggest weekly loss in more than a month, after the government said U.S. inventories will double as farms recover from the drought in 2012 to produce the biggest crop ever.

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"Choose about any negative word you want – awful, dismal, disastrous, whatever – they can be used to describe the state of pork exports in March. Only Canada and the markets labelled "Other" were higher this March year than last - 7.4 per cent and 16.2 per cent, respectively.

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Inside a warehouse near the Canadian border, boneless hams bound for Philadelphia are coming off a tractor-trailer from Toronto under the gaze of a federal food inspector.

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USDA expects a big bounce back in the U.S. corn crop that is largely still unplanted, predicting a 14.14 billion bushel crop compared to last year’s drought-reduced 10.78 billion bushels and pushing expected average corn prices below $5 a bushel.

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The political arm of the product review magazine Consumer Reports on Tuesday urged lawmakers and federal regulators to take steps to eliminate antibiotic use in healthy animals.

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Wild hogs have become a huge problem in places like Louisiana, rooting up fields in their quest for food and generally being extraordinary 200 pound pests. Given their size, smarts, and tenacity,

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In their latest publicity stunt, PETA announced Thursday they will have a pair of members dressed in “giant condoms” on the streets of Winnipeg Friday.

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Foreign workers could gain visas for year-round work in U.S. meat processing plants under a proposal by the meat industry and the meatpackers union for immigration reform designed to create a steady supply of workers for slaughterhouses.

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The Obama administration announced it is accepting applications for the first phase of the "Investing in Manufacturing Communities" Partnership, a new initiative to accelerate the resurgence of manufacturing and create jobs across the country.

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The current high feed prices are here to stay as a result of a number of intricate political, economic and demand-supply conditions. Understanding the background helps to cope with the challenging conditions, Dr Terry Barr stated at IPPE in Atlanta.

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Certainly, it is a big day for agricultural commodity investors pondering what 2013-14 might bring, with the US Department of Agriculture to publish its first full forecasts for the season.

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The American Meat Institute (AMI) today released a video tour of a pork slaughter plant hosted by leading animal welfare expert Temple Grandin, Ph.D., professor of animal science at Colorado State University. The video is available on the Institute's dedicated animal welfare Web site http://www.animalhandling.org/.

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Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index was -8 last week, matching the five-year weekly high set the week ending Feb. 3. The current score is up from -13 the previous week.

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McDonald’s announced this week that they will be cutting the Angus burgers from their menu, which are the most expensive items the restaurant serves.

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McDonald’s Corp. confirmed Thursday that it is removing its premium Angus Third Pounder burger from U.S. menus.

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It's a controversy that's caught the attention of several cities throughout northern Arkansas -- a commercial hog farm on the Buffalo River Watershed.

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Corn planting is falling farther behind normal. As of May 5, 12% of corn acres were planted compared to 69% a year ago and a 5-year average of 47% planted by May 5.

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With the unofficial start of the grilling season just days away, grocers are getting ready, preparing meat for memorial day weekend. But this year, the meat… May cost you more.

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Cattlemen in Oklahoma/Texas are having to sell cows for meat due to fodder shortages meaning cow slaughter is up 7 per cent last year. But without Canadian cow imports Steve Meyer and Len Steiner write that cow slaughter would be down on 2012.

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Adding to its array of gourmet burger options just in time for National Burger Month, Johnsonville Sausage introduces its latest Griller varieties in Cheddar Cheese & Bacon and Swiss Cheese & Mushroom.

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Dynamic Fuels, a renewable energy joint venture between Tyson Foods and Syntroleum, is set to resume operations at its bio-fuel plant by making an investment of $20m by the end of July 2013.

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Tyson foods is in the process of developing an audit system for its beef suppliers this year, with a plan to launch the beef version of its “FarmCheck” program in 2014. The program will involve audits of beef operations along the supply chain, focusing largely on animal welfare.

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-U.S. wheat futures fall on positioning before USDA crop forecasts

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USDA announced it awarded $19.5 million to support research, education and extension activities associated with climate solutions in agriculture aimed at the impacts of climate variability and change on dairy and beef cattle.

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US cow slaughter continues to be well above 2012 and 2011 levels. As we have noted before in this report, the surge in cow slaughter is in large part due to more dairy cows coming from Canada.

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It happens every year. It’s too dry. It’s too wet. It’s too early. It’s too late. After last year’s unusually early planting season due to warm, dry conditions, this spring’s cool, rainy weather across the Midwest has delayed plantings significantly.

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