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Onset of football season may have spurred meat market

Could it be that America’s meat industry just got a boost from college football? It’s possible, said Kansas State University livestock economist Glynn Tonsor, who reported this week that consumer’s demand for proteins – beef, chicken and pork – is holding steady in large part due to a surge in the food service industry. “The […]

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Sandringham House: The Norfolk home of The Queen

In 2008, John Martin Robinson took a tour of Sandringham House, the country house beloved and developed by generations of the royal family, including rooms not seen by the public. Photographs by Will Pryce for Country Life. Over the front door in the hall at Sandringham is an inscription: ‘This house was built by Albert […]

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Study to explore potential for monkeypox virus to spread to livestock

While monkeypox has been circulating in Africa for many years, the recent outbreak across the globe has exposed considerable uncertainties about the virus’ transmission. Individuals infected with the monkeypox virus usually heal from the disease on their own without medical treatment, yet the questions raised reinforce the need for research to understand how the virus spreads […]

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Ag groups welcome agreement to avoid rail strike

Railroad and rail union representatives have reached a preliminary agreement in time to avert a nationwide rail shutdown in advance of Friday’s deadline. The action was welcomed by those in the agricultural sector who had already begun to see slowdowns in shipments of fertilizer and ethanol and expressed concerns over the impact to the economy. Many […]

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