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Struggling ethanol makers hope to snap back

FAIRMONT, Minn. -- Farmer Dwayne Ehlert remembers the moment last August when he delivered a truckload of corn to an ethanol plant here and sold it for a record $8.16 a bushel.

"I knew it was good for me, and I knew it wasn't good for anyone else...

Foreclosure settlement checks seen as inadequate

Tyler Reid struggled to hold onto his Ladera Ranch, Calif., condominium during the recession.

He was self-employed. When his clients dried up, so did his software business. Reid sold his car, ate one meal a day, and paid his taxes with credit ...

Dry farming draws interest from small growers

A centuries-old farming technique called dry farming -- once the order of the day in California's Central Valley -- is once again drawing the interest of some of the region's farmers.

The technique is as simple as it is risky. Dry farming relies ...