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A Ray Of Light For Consumers: Bigger Corn Crop Expected

After months of rising food prices, there may be some relief coming with farmers on track to produce the second-largest corn crop and fourth-largest soybean crop in history. ...more

August 13, 2008

Shades Of Stephen King: Gulf's Dead Zone Growing

Scientists expect the expanse of lifeless water in the Gulf of Mexico called the Dead Zone to be the largest since measurements began in 1990 and to cover an area the size of Massachusetts. ...more

June 14, 2008

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A Letter to my 'Representatives (?)" ...more

June 13, 2008

Gulf Dead Zone Expected To Reach Record Size

TAMPA - Scientists expect the expanse of lifeless water in the Gulf of Mexico called the Dead Zone will be the largest since measurements started in 1990 and cover an area the size of Massachusetts. ...more

June 12, 2008

Flooding May Raise Corn, Soy Prices

After a damp, chilly spring, grain farmer Norman Voyles Jr. still had 300 acres of soybeans yet to plant when a monsoonlike storm dumped 10 inches of rain on his central Indiana farm last weekend. ...more

June 12, 2008