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Deere's 3Q profit rises 7 pct »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
Deere & Co.'s third-quarter profit rose 7 percent, but earnings from the world's largest maker of farm machinery missed Wall Street expectations despite a ...
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Deere 3Q profits rise 7 pct but miss expectations »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
Deere & Co., the world's largest of maker of farm machinery, said Wednesday third-quarter profit rose 7 percent as high crop prices spurred stronger sales ...
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Small-scale farmers grapple with modern commerce »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
DAYTON, Va. (AP) _ At the wholesale produce market in this Mennonite community, farming families arrive by horse and buggy and pallets are stacked high ...
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Farmers get money for capturing carbon »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ Everett Dobrinski recently got a $4,000 check for storing carbon dioxide in his soil.
Dobrinski, who farms near Makoti ...
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US grain exports snagged by infrastructure delays »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
Across the country, from grain elevator to grain elevator, golden wheat and corn are piled in towering mounds, waiting for a rail car to haul ...
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US questions China at WTO over pork, farm taxes »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 3 months ago in Business & Finance
GENEVA (AP) _ The United States has challenged China to justify the legality of its tax, subsidy and export rules for farm products such as ...
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UN says opium cultivation drops in Afghanistan »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 3 months ago in News
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) _ Drought and anti-drug campaigns helped slash Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation by 19 percent this year compared to 2007, but Taliban ...
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Russian farming: from basket case to breadbasket? »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
LIPETSK, Russia (AP) _ An American-made combine harvests barley doing the job of five Soviet tractors on this patch of the "Black Earth" region — a ...
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Farm groups worried about meat labeling law »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Farm groups are protesting the Agriculture Department's use of a new food labeling law, saying it has loopholes that could confuse ...
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Wash. dating service links vintners, grapes »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) _ Desperately seeking a mate: Hopeless romantic seeks mature, well-rounded, traditional partner. Must be bold, yet not too sweet.
OK, so the ...
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Wash. dating service links vintners, grapes »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) _ Desperately seeking a mate: Hopeless romantic seeks mature, well-rounded, traditional partner. Must be bold, yet not too sweet.
OK, so the ...
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Farmers having little problem getting ag credit »
Posted by: ap 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) _ The economic turmoil on Wall Street has not reached the dusty country roads in the nation's Heartland, where a rural ...
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