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Afghans Would Rather Farm Than Fight

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Afghans would rather be farmers than fighters, the U. S. agriculture secretary said Feb. 3, highlighting a U. S. focus on farming jobs to lure people from the battlefield and curtail the opium trade. Separate from the Afghan-led reintegration plan announced by President Hamid Karzai at a conference in London recently, Washington sees its agriculture
Livestock

U. S. Farm Group: Stop EPA On Greenhouse Gases

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“They don’t have enough lipstick to put on that pig (climate legislation) to make it look good.” – MISSOURI FARM BUREAU PRESIDENT CHARLES KRUSE The largest U. S. farm group called on Congress Jan. 12 to prevent the government from regulating greenhouse gases if lawmakers kill climate change legislation. The six-million-member American Farm Bureau Federation
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Modest U. S. Farm Subsidy Reforms Criticized

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The U. S. Agriculture Department unveiled tighter eligibility rules for farm subsidies on Jan. 6 but a small-farm group says they don’t live up to President Barack Obama’s call for reform. The rules, effective Jan. 7, bar subsidies to the wealthiest Americans, as required by the 2008 farm law. There is no limit on how
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Agriculture Key To Stabilizing Afghanistan

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Rebuilding agriculture can boost confidence in Afghanistan’s fragile government and pull farmers away from the drug money that fuels the Taliban insurgency, the U. S. agriculture chief said Jan. 10. The Obama administration sees agriculture as the biggest non-security priority in Afghanistan, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, as he arrived in Kabul for a three-day
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Take Biofuels To The Non-Bank Bank

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It was more a wavering non-waver than another government oldie but goodie, a non-denial denial. Still, nothing in the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Dec. 1 delay to grant the ethanol industry’s request to boost the current 10 per cent ethanol limit in gasoline to 15 per cent suggested it won’t happen – and soon.
Livestock

U. S. Sets Competition Meetings

The Obama administration will hold workshops in 2010 in Iowa, Wisconsin, Alabama, Colorado on fair play and concentration in agricultural marketing, officials said on Friday. After sessions in farm country, the all-day hearings will conclude with a meeting in Washington on the spread between prices received by farmers and those paid by consumers for food.
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Guidelines Could Help Improve Farmland Deals

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A draft of the first-ever international code of conduct for farmland deals should be ready by the end of the year, the head of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development said. The draft document will lead to more discussion about how to ensure deals benefit host nations, as well as those seeking to
Livestock

U. S. Blocks Canada/Mexico Call For WTO Panel In Meat Row

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The United States has blocked requests by Canada and Mexico for World Trade Organization experts to examine new U. S. labelling rules that the two U. S. neighbours say are hurting their meat exports. Both Canada and Mexico told the WTO’s dispute settlement body that U. S. country-of-origin-labelling (COOL) rules – requiring meat sold in
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U. S. Eyes Flexibility In Allocating Food Aid

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The Obama administration wants more flexibility in how it allocates food aid dollars to complement its new strategy to help small farmers in poor countries boost their food production, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Oct. 16. Vilsack and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is leading the adminstration’s three-year, $3.5-billion global food security initiative, did
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Global Food Security Plans Too Narrow

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Global plans to reduce hunger by boosting food production are too narrowly focused on farming without considering how to slow population growth or halt climate change, longtime environmental analyst Lester Brown said Sept. 29. The Obama administration and leaders of other wealthy nations have promised to spend more money and coordinate efforts to reduce the

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