YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY

    ND farmers produce record corn, soybean crops

    ND farmers produce record corn, soybean crops; many other crops rebound from 2011 flooding

    Associated Press – Mon, Jan 14, 2013

    FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota farmers produced record corn and soybean crops last year.

    The Agriculture Department says North Dakota's corn crop was a record 422 million bushels, up 95 percent from the previous year. The state's soybean crop totaled 161 million bushels, up 40 percent over the year.

    Oil sunflower production was up 91 percent, canola up 60 percent, flaxseed up 126 percent and dry edible peas up 287 percent. Many of the crops rebounded from 2011 flooding.

    North Dakota sugar beet production for 2012 is estimated at 6.02 million tons, up 31 percent.

    Loading...

    News for You »

    • Wash. parents' ruse snares man wooing daughter

      SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A father who discovered his 15-year-old daughter was being wooed on Facebook by a man twice her age took matters into his own hands.

    • Baby-size burritos lead to unusual photos

      America’s problem with portion size has sparked a strange new photo trend, one in which parents set their newborn babies alongside massive burritos on restaurant tabletops. According to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, a Mexican restaurant in Seattle, Wash., is saying that any diners who take photos of their babies next to one of the restaurant's [...]

    • Stacy Keibler: How I Lost Weight Without Working Out

      Stacy Keibler was able to lose weight without even working out - but it was far from easy!

    • Ousted founder of Men's Wearhouse fights back

      NEW YORK (AP) — George Zimmer, the ousted founder and executive chairman of Men's Wearhouse, says Wednesday he was dismissed after he and the company's board disagreed about how it should look.

    • Man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship

      SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California grand jury has indicted a Florida man on charges he strangled his ex-wife and tossed her off a cruise ship in Italy.

    • HPV vaccine cut infection by half in teen girls

      A vaccine against a cervical cancer virus cut infections in teen girls by half in the first study to measure the shot's impact since it came on the market. The results impressed health experts and a top ...

    • Pistol-Packing Grandma Starts Neighborhood 'Glock Block'

      A grandmother  in Milwaukie, Ore., is organizing a “Glock Block,” a pistol-packing group of neighbors that she said she hopes will help deter crime in her community. Coy Tolonen, 65, said the idea came to her last Thursday after she tried and failed to chase...

    • Illinois father gets prison in child-binding case

      LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern Kansas.

    Show More

    Follow Yahoo! News

    Loading...