UPDATE: Illinois Corn Growers Would Face Cost Hikes Without Atrazine
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To: BUSINESS EDITORS  Contact: Chris Robling, Jayne Thompson & Associates, Office: +1- 312-658-0445, or Mobile: +1-312-343-2026, or crobling@jaynethompson.com   SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb.
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Higher energy costs boosted producer  prices 0.9 percent in May, but excluding volatile food and  energy costs, prices paid at the factory gate were up a more  moderate 0.2 percent, the Labor Department reported on  Thursday.
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By Matthew Wilde, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Feb. 4--WATERLOO -- Agriculture experts say they would be surprised if Northeast Iowa farmers experience a negative impact from proposed changes to the farm bill.
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Atrazine, the second most widely used weedkiller in the country, is showing up in some streams and rivers at levels high enough to potentially harm amphibians, fish and aquatic ecosystems, according to the findings of an extensive Environmental Protection Agency database that has not been made...
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By Scott Miller, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  May 26--BLOOMINGTON -- Opponents of a proposed crude-oil pipeline in Central Illinois face a costly uphill battle.   Mark McCormick of Woodstock knows.
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By Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 16--BOISE -- Farmers on the Rathdrum Prairie won't be torching their fields this summer.
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Ethanol demand has doubled corn prices, making it more profitable than agave.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - Monsanto Co. MON.N on Monday  said it would set aside $285 million to cover liabilities tied  to its former affiliate Solutia Inc. SOLUQ.OB in an initial  move to define the cost of a tangle of legal problems stemming  from the bankrupt chemical company.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - Biotech crop critics said they were asking for a permanent injunction to stop the planting of Monsanto Co.'s genetically modified alfalfa after failing to negotiate a settlement with U.S. regulators by a court-imposed deadline on Friday.
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Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since the Depression. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 22--The price paid to farmers for a bushel of corn jumped more than a third over the past year, with bushel prices on commodity markets going from a little over $2 to more than $4.
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says the federal government has failed to help us with high prescription drug prices, so Illinois is stepping in.
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By Rausch, Kent D Raskin, Lutgarde M; Belyea, Ronald L; Clevenger, Thomas E; Tumbleson, M E  ABSTRACT Nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) concentrations can affect the market value of coproducts from corn wet-milling.
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By Kylene Kiang, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Sep. 17--Besides paying higher production costs than conventional farms,  U.S.
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Farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks stealing their fertilizer may soon catch them pink handed, thanks to a new dye developed by a Southern Illinois farmer.
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By Hillary Borrud, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Jun. 19--LUCERNE VALLEY -- New regulations on greenhouse gases that were passed by the state legislature last fall created a problem for local cement plants, one they now hope to turn into a profit.
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By CHRIS YOUNG OUTDOORS EDITOR  The push to produce more renewable fuels such as ethanol has to be about the best news for corn growers since Henry Wallace introduced hybrid varieties in the 1920s.