Corn prices will have to be high enough during the 2011-12 crop year to convince some end users of corn to reduce their consumption from current levels because this year’s corn crop is “not big enough” to meet the entire consumption base that has been built, according to Dr. Chris Hurt, agricultural economist at Purdue University.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced in an August 18 letter to Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) that current deportation policy is being reformed. She wrote Senator Durbin regarding his proposed “Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act.”
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USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has released questions and answers about the Bonus Purchase Program for Chicken on their Web site. The document is drawn from the discussion during NCC’s conference call earlier this week with AMS.
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Intended U.S. placements of broiler pullet chicks for the hatchery supply flock for July 2011 were 6,444,000, a 3-percent decrease from the 6,675,000 pullet chicks placed in July 2010, according to the “Chickens and Eggs” report issued this week by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
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