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Puerto Rico faces lowest coffee production ever

Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once burgeoning industry amid a deep economic crisis. Farmers produced some 80,000 pounds (39,900 kilograms) of coffee during the most recent harvest, which represents ...

  • Updated: 4:06 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Puerto Rico faces lowest coffee production ever

Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once burgeoning industry. Agriculture Secretary Myrna Comas says farmers produced some 80,000 pounds (36,000 kilograms) of coffee during the most recent harvest, which represents ...

  • Updated: 3:42 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Deep divide in Congress over domestic food aid

The House and Senate Agriculture Committees laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink food aid and alter the way people qualify for it. The two chambers are far apart on how much the $80 billion-a-year program ...

  • Updated: 2:41 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Rewards grow in North Dakota cattle killing cases

Donations from the North Dakota Stockmen's Association have boosted reward funds for information leading to convictions in two high-profile cattle-killing cases on opposite sides of the state. The reward in a Richland County case in May 2012 in which 13 cows and a calf were shot and killed in a ...

  • Updated: 11:33 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Hoke County turkey plant closing in July

House of Raeford Farms has set the closing date for a turkey plant in Hoke County. The company says the plant in Raeford will close by July 27, putting about 1,060 people out of work. The company had said in March it would close the plant later this year. House ...

  • Updated: 9:38 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
In this picture taken May 14, 2013 Mufti Tomasz Miskiewicz, Poland’s top Muslim leader, gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Warsaw. Miskiewicz is urging Polish lawmakers to pass a law that would re-legalize the practice of Islamic and Jewish religious slaughter, a practice that has been banned since January. The ban came after a campaign by animal rights groups, which consider it cruel because it involves a cut to the throat of a conscious animal, with no pre-stunning to make the animal unconscious. But the kosher and halal industry is also a big business and the ban is causing losses reaching millions of euros, putting pressure on the government to get the practice reinstated legally. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo

For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. Until January, slaughterhouses across Poland — a deeply Catholic nation — were the unlikely venues for the Islamic and Jewish slaughter of animals, which in both religions involves a swift cut to the throat ...

  • Updated: 6:52 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., center, flanked by the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., left, and Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to consider proposals to the 2013 Farm Bill, including small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program in an effort to appease conservatives who say the food aid has become too expensive. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House panel OKs farm bill with food stamp cuts

The House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved a sweeping farm bill that would trim the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. The panel rebuffed Democratic efforts to keep the food stamp program whole, as debate on the farm bill turned into a theological discourse on helping the poor. The House bill ...

  • Updated: 12:10 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

News from around Wisconsin at 5:28 a.m. CDT

Numbers drawn for $360M Powerball jackpot DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The winning numbers have been drawn for the $360 million Powerball jackpot. The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night: 2, 11, 26, 34, 41 and a Powerball of 32. The jackpot is considered the third largest in Powerball history and ...

  • Updated: 7:31 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 2013

Wis. congressmen propose crop insurance changes

Wisconsin Reps. Ron Kind and Tom Petri put forward a crop insurance reform plan Wednesday that they say will save the federal government $11 billion over the next 10 years. Kind, a Democrat, and Petri, a Republican, announced their plan as work continued in Congress on a new farm bill. ...

  • Updated: 6:58 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: May 15 Sacramento Bee on overreaching federal investigation of leak to AP threatens press freedoms: Protecting national security is one thing. Fishing expeditions that could intimidate and impede important watchdog reporting are another matter entirely. The Justice Department ...

  • Updated: 4:55 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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