While the index funds in the commodity markets have boosted the price for ag commodities, the situation is getting attention from the government and various farm groups.

WILLIAMSBURG --- When one of Kathy Jones' customers wants their money, she has 24 hours to write a check.

INDIANOLA --- Don't get Kelly Clevenger wrong. He enjoys high corn and soybean prices.

DANBURY --- Adam Cameron never dreamt he would be farming back in Iowa.

AMES --- Food fights are breaking out in college cafeterias across the state.

The shroud farmers once planted genetically modified seed under might be slowly lifting.

Gave him back to the dirt from which he came. Earlier his family and neighbors walk by, Looking at memories of a simple man's life. A table of photos, toy tractors and cards, Telling the story of life on the

DES MOINES --- With more money flowing in and out of ag pockets this year, farmers and state regulators are starting to talk about updating Iowa's grain indemnity fund.

DES MOINES --- After more than two years of discussion, the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) voted this past week to limit the application of manure on land going into soybean production.

DES MOINES (AP) — At a time of record ag profits, concerns are mounting that U.S. farmers could be edging toward a financial crisis not seen since the 1980s farm-economy collapse.

In responding to the current price hike of fuel and essential commodities, minister of finance and economic planning yesterday revealed that the increment was a blessing in disguise as it creates awareness among the people.

The long awaited revival of the Aveyime Rice Project, now Quality Grains Rice Project, which has been in abeyance for the past eight years, is likely to suffer another setback from land litigations and apathy from residents of the area.

The Mozambican government has invested 7.7 million meticais (380,000 US dollars) in the purchase of wheat seeds to resume the production of this grain and reduce the country's dependence on wheat imports.

THE Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU) has urged all livestock farmers to ensure that correct codes and numbers are put on the ear tags of animals when they leave their farm.

One of America's noticeable NGOs, Mercy Corps, is making a case for funding to intervene in the agriculture sector, preferably the production of cash crops such as cocoa.

The Executive Director of the Action for Greater Harvest (AGRHA), who is also the Board Chairman of the Micro Finance Network of Liberia, departed the country over the weekend at the head of a two-man delegation for Kampala, Uganda.

President Kikwete yesterday urged rural farmers to revive cooperative societies as a way of securing strong domestic markets for their produce.

More than three years after the January 2005 signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), health needs in southern Sudan remain critical and simmering tensions create a precarious security situation, a medical charity says.

Small farmers and agricultural enterprises are the main beneficiaries of a financing partnership launched on 6 May to help them break out of poverty and commercialise farming.

The current world food crisis presents a serious challenge to education in Africa, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Koichiro Matsuura, has warned.