Raymondville Chronicle News

Ky. champion ham fetches $1.6 million for charity

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:41:52 +0000

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Start baking those biscuits and stirring that red-eye gravy. Two donors have pledged a record $1.6 million for Kentucky's grand champion country ham.

That works out to about $100,000 a pound for 16 pounds of Kentucky's favorite cured meat.

Cotton Market Weekly

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:41:52 +0000

The combination of sustained export demand, a respectable final domestic consumption report, media reminders about huge cotton losses in Pakistan, unseasonably cold temperatures in portions of West Texas, and extremely strong technical signals took cotton futures prices on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to new seasonal highs this week.

TDA Market Recap September 7, 2010

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:41:52 +0000

AUSTIN - (Sept. 7, 2010) For the week ending Sept. 4, feeder cattle price trends at Texas auctions were mixed, mostly $5 lower per hundredweight to $2 higher, with a few to $5 higher. Feeder prices normally decline during the late summer and fall as increasing numbers of recently weaned calves come to market.