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• April Milk Up 0.2%
  
  05/20/2013
  Year-to-date, milk production is down 511 million pounds compared to the first four months of 2012, a decrease of 0.7%.
• USDA Decision Slows Weed-control Technology Registration Process
  
  05/20/2013
  Industry leaders encourage farmers to provide input to the Agency during public meetings to review two environmental impact statements on transgenic crops designed to tolerate 2,4D and dicamba.
• Danone Invests in Mengniu as Chinese Demand Food Safety
  
  05/20/2013
  Investment aims to boost Danone’s sales in China’s yogurt market, strengthen Chinese consumers’ food-safety confidence.
• Immigration Encounters Business-Labor Rift that Undid 2007 Bill
  
  05/20/2013
  Movement in both the House and Senate on revising U.S. immigration law belies a long-running rift between business and labor that could derail the bill.
• Corn Climbs Before Planting Report on Forecast for More Rainfall
  
  05/20/2013
  The Midwest and Great Plains may see more rain through May 22, slowing fieldwork, AccuWeather Inc. said in a report today.
• Farm Kids Photo Contest: Out In the Field
  
  05/20/2013
  Whether it's helping with harvest or just playing in the corn, these kids know why spending time in the field is great.
• Bomb Worries Put Brakes on Indiana Fertilizer Plant
  
  05/20/2013
  A Pentagon task force has focused on Pakistan-based Fatima Group’s production of an ingredient in bombs used against some U.S. soldiers.
• USDA Announces Conservation Reserve Program Sign-Up
  
  05/20/2013
  Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today reminded farmers and ranchers that the USDA will conduct a four-week Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up.
• Late Spring, Record-Low Stocks Threaten Hay Supplies
  
  05/20/2013
  Record-low hay acreage and a delayed growing season are creating concern about how high alfalfa prices will need to climb to ration supplies.
• Be Ready for a Planting Progress Shock
  
  05/18/2013
  Jerry Gulke doesn’t think the grain market is prepared for how much planting was completed this week. Find out why.

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