Nation&#39;s Cotton Crop May Exceed Records
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This year&#39;s cotton crop is on pace to be the largest in US history, although hurricanes that have battered the nation in the past few months may reduce the final amount.
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TIKRIT, Iraq, March 12  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After decades of strain, the Ministry of Agriculture in the Ninewa Province reported a significant increase in the wheat crop yield for 2006.  Today, the U.S.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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Tests confirmed soybean rust disease has spread throughout Louisiana and into Mississippi, the US Agriculture Department said on Tuesday, adding to fears the fungus could rapidly infect more Southern states.
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This one looks top heavy and dangerous for North Carolina. With Georgetown, Washington State, and Texas as other top seeds, this will be no cake walk for the Tar Heels. But make no mistake, Roy Williams's club can handle it.
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Monsanto Co.'s  attempt to buy  southern seed giant Delta & Pine Land Co.  could be  running into trouble as an unusual backlash against the  proposed combination is taking root across the U.S. Farm Belt,  the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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$35.8bn pot bonanza A report into illicit marijuana cultivation in the US says it is now the country's biggest cash crop, having seen a tenfold increase in production over the last 25 years.â¦
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India is on course to overtake Brazil as the world&#39;s biggest sugar producer in 2007/2008, the International Sugar Organization forecast Friday in a report which also predicted a record surplus.
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Sales on America's busiest shopping day of the year could exceed last year, retail experts believe.
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DURHAM, N.H. -- Maybe someone will ask him how the foliage is going to be up country. Or what he thinks of his home state's artisanal cheddar. Anything but the two queries that David Ball has been hearing for weeks now: How will you feel when you break Jerry Rice's records? When is it going to happen?
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By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 5--Maryland's reputation as one of the nation's leading states for farmland preservation is expected to get a boost today when Harford County officials announce the addition of 16 farms totaling more than 1,100 acres into a preservation program.
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Corn, milk, bread, and other farm products hit record high prices in 2006 â and will likely keep rising in 2008.
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U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion (18 billion pounds) worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said Monsanto Co.'s  $1.5 billion acquisition of top cotton seed producer Delta and Pine Land Co.  would be allowed, but the companies would have to sell a range of key assets.
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The hurricanes of August and September did even more damage to the state&#39;s citrus crop than first predicted, federal officials said.
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Rice finished with 145 yards on eight catches, and Jackson had 113 yards on nine grabs...Testaverde broke Steve DeBerg&#39;s NFL record with his TD pass to Copper, the 63rd receiver he&#39;s hooked up with for a score...Alexander has scored 15 or more touchdowns
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Soybean rust was confirmed in a  Tennessee, the ninth state infected by the highly contagious  disease that has rapidly swept across the U.S. South and is  taking aim at big Midwest farming states, officials said on  Wednesday.