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Calvin R. Sutker, 1923-2013
As a Cook County Board commissioner, Calvin R. Sutker gained support from his fellow county commissioners to bring the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center to Skokie. As a Skokie village trustee, he helped pass the first open housing law in...
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Debate about ethanol and corn prices intensifies
WASHINGTON - This summer's brutal weather is the backdrop for a renewed battle between fuel and food interests: The meat industry and several governors want less of the nation's corn going to make ethanol, but it's questionable whether the pullback...Tags: Gasoline Industry, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Biofuels
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Top stories of the year on TribLocal.com
TribLocal - Crystal Lake » NewsWith 2011 in the books, TribLocal decided to take a look back and highlight the most popular stories of the year. Overall, extreme weather produced …... -
Smaller corn surplus could push food prices higher
NEW YORK (AP) — Food prices could rise next year because an unseasonably hot summer likely damaged much of this year’s corn crop. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated Monday that a surplus of 672 million bushels of corn will be...Tags: Agriculture, World War II (1939-1945), Food Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Sanderson Farms Incorporated
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U.S. farm exports boom as rest of economy struggles
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visits Vietnam and China to talk trade this week, he’s hoping to build on one of the few bright spots in the struggling American economy: agricultural exports. U.S....Tags: Productivity, Agriculture, Consumers, Vietnam, Contracts
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U.S. farm exports boom as rest of economy struggles
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - As U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visits Vietnam and China to talk trade this week, he's hoping to build on one of the few bright spots in the struggling American economy: agricultural exports. U.S. agricultural exports are...Tags: Productivity, Agriculture, Consumers, Vietnam, Contracts
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Farmers, ethanol makers likely OK with no subsidy
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — If a $5 billion-a-year federal subsidy that helped build the ethanol industry comes to an end, it will likely mean two things, experts who have followed its development say.
First, it doesn’t guarantee an end to the...Tags: Credit and Debt, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Colleges and Universities, Valero Energy Corp., Biofuels
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Predicting corn consumption and prices for 2011
With corn production down and corn consumption up, the market is poised to see record-high prices per bushel in the 2010-11 marketing year, according to a marketing and outlook brief prepared by University of Illinois agricultural economists Darrel Good...Tags: Education, Marketing, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest
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Higher food prices expected as corn reserves shrink
Americans should brace for higher food prices this year now that demand for corn has pushed U.S. supplies to their lowest point in 15 years. Higher projected orders from the ethanol industry sent corn futures soaring Wednesday, as corn supplies became...Tags: Food Industry, Biofuels, Weather Warnings, Tyson Foods Incorporated, Weather
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`Death' investors at risk
Tribune staff reporterInconsistent oversight of viatical companies and uneven enforcement by Illinois regulators leave buyers--who purchase someone else's life insurance benefit for less than what it would someday pay--with scant protection Desperate for help, a retiree...Tags: Orland Park, Newspaper and Magazine, Annual Reports, Corporate Crime, Sales
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