...connect-the-dots book, running in a diagonal line from Alaska, down through the prairies of western Canada, into the U.S. Midwest before stopping in Texas. The dots serve as a sort of flight plan for 19427, one of four sandhill cranes that biologists...

...watersheds" of north-south commerce within the region. While there's a lot of east-west trade between Asia and the U.S. Midwest and East that comes through the ports of Tacoma and Vancouver, the regional trade is 3 to 1 north-to-south than...

...45 percent of its products. Agrium now operates close to 220 Western Farm and Crop Production retail outlets in the U.S. Midwest, Pacific Northwest and West, plus 18 retail outlets in Argentina. If the Unocal purchase goes through, Agrium could...