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• Steakhouses continue to suffer

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  One of the first victims of an economic downturn is higher-end dining, and nobody has felt this recession more than steakhouses. All the big chains, led by Outback and Ruth’s Chris, have reported double-digit dips in sales volumes this year. The slowdown is the major reason why prices for cattle, a prime leg of ...
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• Buffett wannabee rides hamburger

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Can the Steak N Shake hamburger chain, which has outlets in Davenport and Coralville, do for 32-year-old hedge fund manager Sardar Biglari what Berkshire Hathaway did for Warren Buffett? We know that four decades ago the Omaha-based Buffett took an obscure New England clothing manufacturer and use it as a vehicle for ...
  4 days ago

• Argentina looking at big corn crop

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Good rains may enable Argentina to boost this year’s corn crop by as much as three million metric tons from the 13.2 million metric tons produced by the drought-hampered crop last year. The information came in a report from Argentina’s corn growers group, Maizur, and reported by Bloomberg News. Read the ...
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• Ethanol profits are up

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  News that Hawkeye Energy put two of its four plants into bankruptcy this week overshadows news of greater profitability for ethanol producers. Iowa State University Extension’s monthly survey of ethanol costs and returns, based on averages, shows that in November a gallon of ethanol produced a 45 cents profit, up ...
  5 days ago

• Let’s hear it for Iowa’s hens!

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  When Iowans brag about their state as a national leader, they almost always talk about corn, soybeans, hogs or maybe the Presidential caucuses. They should be talking about eggs and specifically, those hardworking hens who produce them. In today’s specialized world, Iowa is a layer state, meaning its poultry ...
  5 days ago

• Grassley: Obama needs fast-track trade power

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  There’s little talk around Washington of renewing trade negotiations. But at some point, Congress is going to have to resurrect the president’s fast-track authority to negotiate agreements, says Sen. Charles Grassley. Under fast-track, Congress can approve or disapprove a trade agreement that a president has ...
  6 days ago

• A worrisome forecast on soybeans

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Soybeans had a nice run in 2009 as strong Chinese demand kept prices above $10 per bushel most of the year, a contrast to the yearlong weakness in corn prices which except for a brief period in June failed to break consistently above $4 per bushel. But soybeans’ may be in for a rockier year in 2010 according to a ...
  6 days ago

• “Corn fed” still has cachet with steak lovers

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Beef producers have had a tough time lately as the flaccid economy cut into demand for the choice cuts. But the term “Corn fed, Midwestern beef” still is the call that beckons steak lovers, even among Texans who normally confine bragging to their in-state products. What the beef crowd has long considered the ...
  1 week ago

• Bad day for climate legislation

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Hopes of enacting one of President Barack Obama’s signal goals, capping carbon emissions, took two more hits today. First, there was the release of a USDA study that predicts the legislation would lead to 59 million acres of cropland and pasture being planted to trees. Then, more seriously, Obama left Copenhagen ...
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• Fed cattle up in Iowa, down in U.S.

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Iowa’s population of cattle on feedlots for slaughter on Dec. 1 totaled 1.3 million, up 6 percent from Nov. 1 of this year and 2 percent greater than Dec. 1, 2008, according to a report issued Friday by the U.S. Department of A griculture. Nationally, cattle and calves on feed totaled 11.3 million on Dec. 1, down 1 ...
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• Monsanto to keep Roundup Ready 1 soybean

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Monsanto is telling farm organizations in a letter this week that it plans to continue to allow use of the Roundup Ready 1 soybean after the patent for that seed expires in 2014. Monsanto said the letter was a “clarification” but it counters widespread talk that the St. Louis company would take the mainstay ...
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• Exxon Mobil becomes Big Gas

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  If you’re wondering what Exxon Mobil’s $41 billion purchase last week of natural gas producer  XTO Energy of Fort Worth may mean to the future of energy, you’re not alone. Because of its sheer size Exxon Mobil is the elephant that moves the rest of the energy industry. Columnist Loren Steffy of the Houston ...
  1 week ago

• Biodiesel industry looking for ‘Christmas miracle’

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Iowa’s biodiesel industry is likely to shut down over the coming days, barring a “Christmas miracle,” last-minute action by Congress to keep the industry’s $1-a-gallon tax subsidy alive, says Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association. Congress is expected to revive the tax credit ...
  1 week ago

• Corn and beans stop their free fall

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Corn and soybean futures halted the dollar-induced free fall they were in Thursday, dropping 3.4 cents per bushel to $3.92 on the March corn contract and 6 cents per bushel to $10.16 on the January soybean contract during the first 90 minues of trading Friday. Corn had fallen 13 cents per bushel and soybeans 32 cents ...
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• Vilsack questions department’s own climate analysis

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is catching flak from Republicans for appearing to disavow his department’s own estimates of the impact of reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a  proposed cap-and-trade system. In testimony to a House committee earlier month, the Agriculture Department’s chief economist ...
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• Dairy farmers to get special subsidies

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Dairy farmers are going to be eligible for checks to help cover their recent market losses. The U.S. Agriculture Department announced today that it would make the payments using $290 million that Congress earmarked for dairy farmers in the department’s 2010 appropriations bill. The one-time payment will be based on ...
  1 week ago

• Dollar’s gains spook corn and beans

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Corn exports were up 45 percent last week from the previous week, which should have been good news for corn except for one thing. The U.S. dollar is suddenly hot again, and when the dollar rises U.S. exports become expensive and corn and soybeans generally fall. That very thing happened Thursday when the Dollar ...
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• Soy growers losing hope for biodiesel subsidy

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Soybean growers are losing hope that Congress will prevent the $1-a-gallon tax subsidy for biodiesel from lapsing at the end of the year, shutting down some biodiesel production. The credit is due to expire Dec. 31. The House passed legislation extending the credit through next year, but the Senate is bogged down in ...
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• Give the gift of soybeans

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  If you haven’t found that just right gift for a special person (probably a woman) in your life, consider earrings and pendants inspired by soybeans produced by Adorments and Ornaments of Ankeny. Linda Funk, who created the website where the jewelry can be purchased, has worked for years in the culinary field and ...
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• Grains down sharply

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 135
  Corn futures dropped 15 cents per bushel to $3.94 Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade at noon. Soybeans had no luck,  either, down 37 cents to $10.22 per bushel. This despite estimates that the corn harvest may be down 5-10 percent because of moisture and shrinkage caused by the bad weather. Analysts say that ...
  1 week ago

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