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Bulgaria Police Raid Farm Ministry Over Land Swaps

Bulgaria’s national security agency and prosecutors raided the Agriculture Ministry March 18 and seized documents in an investigation into large-scale illegal land deals. The raid was part of Bulgaria’s drive to assure the European Union it is serious about fighting chronic corruption and organized crime. Brussels has punished Sofia for failing to produce results by
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EU To End Beef War With U. S. And Canada?

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“The EU and U. S. are engaged in negotiations to find a way forward on this issue, and I am confident we will find a solution very soon.” – CATHERINE ASHTON The United States will hold off on new retaliatory duties for European products while the two countries work on a possible fix to a
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Aggies To Obama: No!

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“…if your local butcher put his greasy thumb on the scale in such a clumsy manner, you’d slap him with your chequebook. Congress does it, however, and you hand it your chequebook.” Of the many talents Americans– and especially American politicians – have acquired in the last 25 years, coupling fact with fiction to create
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Farmer Found Dead In Bin

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RCMP at Portage la Prairie are waiting on autopsy results to learn how a Newton-area farmer died alone Saturday in his grain bin. According to a release Monday, RCMP were called at about 6:45 p. m. that day to a farm south of Newton, just east of Portage. A neighbour had phoned 911 to report
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Crisis brings hope to Brazil’s landless

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“This will give us more strength.” – OZANO DOS SANTOS Ozano dos Santos admits to knowing little about the global economic crisis beyond snippets of Brazilian television news and conversations at his small bar. But he senses it can only be a good thing for the movement he calls his “father.” “This will give us
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Sask. to expand rural extension

Saskatchewan’s Agriculture Ministry says call centres and websites aren’t cutting it for farmers needing provincial extension services. Agriculture Minister Bob Bjornerud announced Jan. 29 his ministry will open new rural extension offices in three communities and assign more extension staff to rural communities. “We have heard overwhelmingly from farmers and ranchers that a telephone line
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Brazil landless peasants aim to extend fight to oil

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Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement marked its 25th anniversary on Jan. 19 by pledging to extend its fight against capitalism to ensuring the country’s new oil wealth remains in state hands. Since state energy company Petrobras announced in 2007 it had discovered massive light oil reserves off Brazil’s southern coast, talk has swirled that the government
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Zimbabwe farm output seen continuing free fall

Zimbabwe faces another huge food deficit in 2009 due to continued falls in farm production, mounting political uncertainty and economic instability, a report by a farmers’ union said Jan. 21. The southern African country is battling hyperinflation and has endured food shortages since 2000, when President Robert Mugabe’s government began seizing farms from whites to
Dairy cattle, News

cash for dairy, rural Internet brussels/ reuters E urope’s farm

Europe’s farm chief will propose spending part of the unused EU agriculture budget to help countries finance rural development projects, including support for dairy industries and improved Internet access. Speaking to bloc farm ministers, EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said up to 1.5 billion euros ( US$ 2 billion) could behandedout for certain schemes
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Arson causes straw bale fire at Elie

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“I knew this was going to happen some time.” – RCMP spokesperson A fire which destroyed some 200 straw bales at the site of the former Dow BioProducts plant at Elie last week was deliberately set. The Manitoba Fire Commissioner’s office has ruled arson as the cause of the fire and is investigating, a provincial

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