“Monthly WASDE Report Issued” USDA released the Monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates Summary on Wednesday. WHEAT: U.S. wheat ending stocks for 2009/10 are projected 20 million bushels higher as a reduction in expected food use pushes ending stocks to 1 billion bushels. Projected food use is lowered 20 million bushels. High flour extraction [...]
Archives: March, 2010
AG NEWS 2010/03/10
“Dairies Hit Hardest When Foreign Labor Leaves” A Texas AgriLife Research study examining the effects of immigrant labor in the dairy industry reveals out of 5,005 dairy farms surveyed nationally, 57,000 full-time employees, or 41 percent, were foreign workers. Additionally, the study showed that farms using immigrant labor account for about 62 percent of the [...]
