Kate Petersen on June 18th, 2008

Floods seen adding to already high food prices CHICAGO (Reuters) – The cost of everything from corn chips to beef steaks was going higher even before the disastrous floods hit millions of corn and soybean acres in the U.S. Midwest, and now food price increases may be even greater, industry sources said on Tuesday. Torrential [...]

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biscuit on April 22nd, 2008

Yesterday, I finally roused myself from my miserable sickbed and rejoined The Community of (Hu)Man: I took my weekly trip to the feed store. I always pick up all kinds of necessities there, like brass sprayer tops or pumps for plastic bottles, red clover seed, the latest gossip — um, news, that is. The only [...]

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Monkeyfister on April 10th, 2008

Well, HOWDY!!! I’m Monkeyfister, and this is my first post here. (Hi Monkeyfister) If you are not familiar with me, I can be a bit acerbic, but, oh, so friendly, once you get past my style of writing, and language (I am an old Sailor and Stagehand– my language is a bit salty), and get [...]

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