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AP-USDA-Eastern Cornbelt Hog Report,626
LM—HG209 Des Moines, Iowa Mon, May 20, 2013 USDA Market News EASTERN CORNBELT DAILY DIRECT MORNING HOG REPORT BASED ON STATE OF ORIGIN PLANT DELIVERED PURCHASE DATA FOR Monday, May 20, 2013 (As of 9:30 AM) CURRENT VOLUME BY PURCHASE TYPE BARROWS & GILTS LIVE AND CARCASS BASIS Estimated Actual ...
AP-USDA-Midwest Regional Eggs
NW—PY018 Des Moines, IA Mon. May 20, 2013 USDA Market News SHELL EGGS: Daily Midwest Regional Eggs Midwest delivered asking prices are 15 cents higher for Extra Large and Large, and 11 cents higher for Medium. Daily producer prices are 2 cents higher for Large and Medium, and 1 cent ...
PERSONAL HEALTH: MANY FRONTS IN THE OBESITY WAR
c.2013 New York Times News Service Sugar, and especially the high-fructose corn syrup that sweetens many processed foods and nearly all soft drinks, has been justly demonized for adding nutritionally empty calories to our diet and causing metabolic disruptions linked to a variety of diseases. But a closer look at ...
Ohio livestock prices
The Eastern Cornbelt Daily Direct Summary from Friday as reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture Marketing Service: BASE MARKET On a carcass basis plant delivered (54-62 pct. lean): 37 cents lower. Base price range: 84.46-92.00, weighted average 90.27. 0.8-0.9 inches backfat: 88.00-96.27. 0.6-0.7 inches backfat: 91.00-99.50. Total prior ...
More centers in DC area speak seniors' language
If Mohammad Rahro, 91, had gone to just any senior center in Maryland, chances are he would not have encountered someone who remembered the headmaster with four wives who rode to school each day on a beloved white donkey. Instead, on his first day at the Loving Care Adult Medical ...
Maker of 'pink slime' continues to struggle
The beef-processing company that makes the product that critics call "pink slime" continues to struggle more than a year after the initial stories on the lean bits of beef that Beef Products Inc. makes. The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/15YXsIh ) the Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based company lost 80 percent of ...
SC colleges look at on-campus tobacco bans
Campus-wide bans against smokers could spread to several South Carolina universities. The State newspaper of Columbia reports (http://bit.ly/110zJ7i) that at least 10 South Carolina colleges have gone tobacco free and at least five others are considering it in the country's fifth-largest tobacco-growing state. University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides ...
Mobile farmers markets infuse fresh foods
The steam from a plump roasted yam greets Peggy Miller for dinner most days. It doesn't take much to satisfy the 72-year-old's appetite, but she's picky about what's on her plate. Fresh vegetables are her first choice, but they're not easy to come by in Ballentine. The closest supermarket, a ...
Mass. husband, wife thrive coaching college teams
As the final seconds of the first half ticked off during the Atlantic 10 tournament semifinal against George Washington last month, University of Massachusetts women's lacrosse coach Angela McMahon didn't like what she had seen. Her top-seeded and heavily favored Minutewomen were ahead 5-4, but they were lacking energy and ...
Adopted Russian orphan triumphs over challenges
Sophie snaps her fingers and, with her classmates, bounces, twirls and kicks to the tune of West Side Story's "America" blaring through the dance studio sound system. The 10-year-old, adopted from Russia by U.S. parents nearly nine years ago, is a bright-eyed, carefree fourth-grader who wakes up with a song ...
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