ALBUQUERQUE (AP) -- More than 16 percent of New Mexico's households worry about having enough to eat, ranking New Mexico second-highest in the nation in food insecurity, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on hunger in America. Natio
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Iran has recently boosted its oil and gas production capacity to 4.3 million barrels of oil equivalent a day and could reach the level of 4.5 million barrels a day within two years, the country's new oil minister said Thu
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Wildlife advocates are accusing federal officials of doing little to improve the safety of a program designed to protect livestock from coyotes and other predators. Their criticism follows an announcement earlier this month by the
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- OPEC, which meets more than 40 percent of the world's oil needs, is set to launch this weekend an environmental fund to bring together producers and consumers in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, senior officials in the
WHIPPANY, N.J. (AP) -- Suburban Propane Partners LP, which distributes propane, fuel oil, and refined fuels, said Thursday posted a wider loss for the fiscal fourth quarter as a change in customer mix and its exit of certain businesses brought on a s
MORTON GROVE, Ill. (AP) -- Lifeway Foods Inc., makers of a probiotic dairy beverage called kefir, said Thursday its third-quarter profit dropped 37 percent, weighed down by higher milk costs. Kefir is a creamy dairy product that contains potentially
NEW YORK (AP) -- Analysts said shares of ConAgra Foods Inc. should rise Thursday after the company said there are no traces of salmonella at a plant linked to last month's turkey pot pie recall. ConAgra recalled Banquet and store-brand turkey pot pie
RIYADH (Reuters) - Oil prices would probably not fall even if OPEC raises production when it meets in December, since the market is being supported by factors other than supply, the oil ministers of Algeria and Iran said on Thursday. Algeria's Energ
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world's largest dairy exporter, said Thursday it is considering an initial public offering that could be worth as much as 2.5 billion New Zealand dollars ($1.9 billion). The plan calls
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of soft drink maker National Beverage Corp. dipped Wednesday to a two-year low after a Stifel Nicolaus analyst said higher commodity costs and the declining popularity of carbonated soft drinks will keep the shares from rising
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- ConAgra Foods Inc. says it has resumed making the Banquet and private label pot pies that were linked to last month's salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds. The company says environmental tests of its Marshall, Mo., plant hav
ROME (AP) -- China and India are under pressure to reduce their carbon emissions, but energy executives and government representatives agreed Wednesday that the two booming economies will be sticking with coal -- whether the rest of the world likes i
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Attorney General Drew Edmondson is asking a federal judge to stop poultry companies from dropping animal waste in the 1 million-acre Illinois River watershed, citing an "imminent and substantial endangerment of the public health.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama opposes a bill that would change the nation's 135-year-old mining law -- the same stance as mining industry executives who employ a Nevada-based lobbyist advising the presidential candidate. The Obama campaign
NEW YORK (AP) -- Copper prices climbed sharply Wednesday after a major earthquake struck northern Chile and set off fears that output of the world's largest copper producer could be disrupted. In other commodity markets, agricultural and energy futur
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·Writedowns Overshadow Merril
·BGI's New ETNs Track Commodi
·La. Cotton Farms Hope for Dr
·Bunge Lifts 2007 Profit Outl
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·Spinning cotton
·Cotton: the next commodity c
·Oil inventories post surpris
·Agriculture Futures Slide on
·Russian Food Makers, Retaile
·Bhutto Is Unlikely Savior of
·Writedowns Overshadow Merril
·BGI's New ETNs Track Commodi
·La. Cotton Farms Hope for Dr
·Bunge Lifts 2007 Profit Outl
·Trinidad Boosts Sugarcane Fa
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