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Trade Talks Stuck In Past

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The surest way to confirm if anyone in Washington, D. C. is telling you the truth about trade is to watch their lips: if they move, they’re stretching the blanket one way or the other. Of course, not many lips have moved on trade last year or this year. Indeed, on the White House to-do
Country Crossroads

White House Garden Changing Attitudes

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“In the single year since the groundbreaking, Mrs. Obama has caused a dramatic paradigm shift.” – EDDIE GEHMAN KOHAN When the first lady broke ground for a garden on the south lawn of the White House last spring, it was front-page news in the New York Times and Washington Post. Michelle Obama planted the first
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Boost Lunch But Cut Junk Food: U. S. Senator

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The U. S. government would launch an all-out ban on selling junk food at school under a key Senate chairman’s proposal, but funding for school lunch and child nutrition programs would grow by only half as much as the White House proposed. Senator Blanche Lincoln, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, proposed a $4.5-billion increase over
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U. S. Panel Opposes Cuts For Wealthy Farmers

The House Agriculture Committee on Mar. 3 rejected President Barack Obama’s proposals to reduce crop subsidies to higher-income farmers and federal support for crop insurance. There was little discussion as the committee refused farm cuts requested by the president for the second year in a row. With elections in November, the committee approved a letter
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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
Opinion

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.
News, Oilseeds

Grain Volatility To Stay High In 2010

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Prices of agricultural commodities will remain volatile in 2010 due to supply constraints, volatile shipping costs and a constant demand pull from new demand sources like biofuels, North American Export Grain Association president and CEO Gary Martin said Nov. 3. “In the last three years, volatility in this industry has increased and it’s likely to
Crops

Fertilizer Industry Proposes Processes For Disputed Rail Rates

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“Most of our plants are captive to one shipper.” – ROGER LARSON The fertilizer industry has proposed a Commercial Dispute Resolution model for dealing with quarrels with the railways over freight rates, says Roger Larson, president of the Canadian Fertilizer Institute. “Most of our plants are captive to one shipper,” Mr. Larson told the Ottawa
Country Crossroads

U. S. Official Asks Industry For Eat-Your-Veggies Ads

The U. S. produce industry could help Americans trim their waistlines while boosting sales if it would fund public service advertisements encouraging Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Sept. 10. “What if we took five per cent of your marketing budget and set it aside for that purpose?” Vilsack
Dairy cattle, Livestock

U. S. Lawmakers Seek Dairy Subsidy Boost

The leaders of a Dairy Farmers Caucus in the U. S. House said July 29 they sought a $211-million increase in U. S. dairy subsidies to offset the lowest market prices in three decades. The money would flow through an increase in the payment formula for the Milk Income Loss Contract subsidy, which is based

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