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Cargill launching data-analysis service for farmers
2014-09-08 22:23:41| Chemicals - Topix.net
Cargill Inc. is developing a software service that guides farmers on how to plant crops, a foray that pits the agricultural conglomerate against a host of rivals seeking to harvest reams of data to sell "prescriptive planting" technology in North America. Wayzata-based Cargill began selling the service in two U.S. states, Minnesota and South Dakota, this summer and plans a broader push over the next several years as it seeks to help farmers produce larger crops and navigate weather shifts, officials said.
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Canadian Pacific rail cars lined up to receive grain at the Farmers Union elevator in Wilton, N.D.
2014-09-08 04:42:11| Railroads - Topix.net
Canadian Pacific rail cars lined up last week to receive grain at the Farmers Union elevator in Wilton, N.D. FARGO, N.D.-Deregulation has been a popular theme in U.S. politics for decades, but a Surface Transportation Board hearing here last week on railcar shortages and service delays provided an example of how dependent rural America still is on a federal regulatory agency to push the railroads to provide vital services. The BNSF Railway Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company move commodities from the northern tier of states stretching from Minnesota through the Dakotas and Montana to the ports in Washington state and to processing facilities elsewhere.
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Farmers Warn of Trojan Horse Labelled COOL ‘Reform’
2014-09-08 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson argues in a recent Politico op-ed that the opponents of Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL), having lost their battles on both the ideological front as well as in the courts, are now trying have the law gutted in the name of ‘reform.”
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Farmers Turn to Lawmakers for Help in Fight Against Rail Yard
2014-09-04 15:36:24| Railroads - Topix.net
Rows of cotton that have been picked by the same family for generations sit in the shadow of a railroad track in Mumford, a small farming community about 22 miles northeast of College Station in the Brazos River Valley. The cotton is starting to bloom and Frank DeStefano, who farms the land along with three brothers, said it will be a beautiful sight in a few weeks.
Monsanto thinks it can add $4 billion in gross profits by getting farmers to switch to soy
2014-09-03 02:56:58| Chemicals - Topix.net
Monsanto Company wants to make this the "decade of the soybean." And if it succeeds, the agrichemical and biotech company thinks it can reap a windfall of $4 billion in the next five years.
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