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Food prices, elections and robotic milkers

Weather was a big talking point across rural America. But that’s not the only story we’re looking at this week.

Ae we all count down to the midterm elections, the stakes are high for rural America. What will certain races mean for ag interests?

Commodity prices are on the rise and USDA predicts food prices will follow in 2011. Which products are jumping up the fastest and why?

And a 3rd generation dairy producer capitalizes on a steady source of labor by going robotic.

Those stories and market analysis with Darin Newsom, this week on Market To Market. Check your local PBS station for broadcast times or visit our website to view the program. www.iptv.org/MtoM

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 28th, 2010 at 10:44 pm and is filed under Economy, Production. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  1. Deanne says:
    October 31, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    Interesting story on the Robotic milkers. Until the end of it. How sad this couple has girls and no son to take over. What a shame. Bull. Why is it farms cannot continue on unless there is a son. I’ve spent 57 years of my life on a family farm only to be excluded at the end because I wasn’t THE SON. When will this Neanderthal attitude end?

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