August Corn Prices

Farmers are on pace to produce the second largest corn crop and fourth largest soybean crop in history, which may lead to lower prices for the key grains, the government said Tuesday.
For the article:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080812/crop_report.html

Endangered Species Act

From an AP article:
Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.
New regulations, which don’t require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been [...]

Now that’s a wildlife market…

This morning on NPR there was a report on today’s field bird (grouse, quail, partridge…) hunting day in England. Evidently a LOT of hunters go to these reserves on August 12th each year….the example being a group of 20 might well go out and kill 300 birds. The fee structure is around [...]