http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com Special Sections RSS Feed Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:14:02 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=76&story_id=1625 Although beef supplies will be very short for several more years, the USDA's Cattle report indicates that the very early stages of beef cattle expansion have begun as beef heifer retention has increased a modest 1 percent, said Chris Hurt, a Purdue University Extension economist. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:14:24 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=76&story_id=1624 A full room of more than 50 growers listened to specialists from the University of Nebraska Panhandle Station discuss the 2011 sugar beet harvest campaign at the Western Sugar Cooperative Grower Meeting on Tuesday in the Gering Civic Center. Final 2011 figures showed the sugar Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:13:39 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=76&story_id=1616 Public commenting period on the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Roundup Ready Sugar Beets ended Dec. 13. The industry has spent a good deal of time digesting the comprehensive analysis and recommending that the crop be deregulated once again. The draft EIS will now Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:37:04 -0600