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Water Worries Cloud Future For U. S. Biofuel

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“We really have to ask ourselves, do we want to be driving with renewable fuels or with gasoline made from petroleum resources?” – BRENT ERICKSON, EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT, BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION It’s corn-planting time in the U. S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl “Buck” Rexford is worrying about the weather – and hoping
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Recession, Health Concerns Get Americans Gardening

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Alison Baum of San Antonio, Texas hopes to save money and eat better by getting her hands dirty. She is joining the swelling ranks of Americans who have started backyard fruit and vegetable gardening, a trend rooted in a desire to cut costs as the recession bites, fears about the safety of commercial food supplies
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Take Free Trade — Please

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When the international trade portion of your resume is as thin as the new U. S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk’s, it’s likely you’d stress personal ideals over professional accomplishments when talking about your new job. Kirk did just that in a May 22 speech to the U. S. Meat Export Federation. As Barack Obama’s trade
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U. S. Farm-Cut Fight Far From Over

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The fight to cut U. S. farm subsidies is just beginning in Congress despite a committee vote against a $250,000-a-year cap on payments, a limit supported by the White House, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says. “Let’s see where things end up,” Vilsack said during an interview with Reuters March 27. He said deficit hawks in
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Big Oil Invests In Ethanol

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If it’s even partly true that you’re known by the company you keep, then the farmer-loved ethanol business got a lot less lovable Feb. 8 when Valero Energy Corp., the largest crude oil refiner in North America, announced its intent to purchase five of the choicest plants owned by mega-biofuel maker, mega-bankrupt VeraSun Energy. Should
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U. S. Lawmaker Blasts China Food Safety

The United States has “serious issues” with food imports from China and needs to do more to prevent contaminated products from entering the U. S. food supply, an influential House lawmaker said March 18. At the same time, Washington needs to toughen up its own outdated food safety laws after a series of food recalls
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Obama Names Miller, Tonsager To Top USDA Posts

President Barack Obama chose Jim Miller to run the U. S. farm subsidy program and Dallas Tonsager as the top rural development official at the Agriculture Department, the White House said March 13. Both appointments, as USDA undersecretary, require Senate confirmation. In late February, Obama selected Kathleen Merrigan for deputy secretary, the No. 2 job
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U. S. NFU Opposes Subsidy Cuts

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The Obama administration should drop its proposal to end the direct payment subsidy to large U. S. farmers, the National Farmers Union said March 9, pointing to a slump in dairy and crop prices. The White House proposal has few supporters among farming groups and farm-state legislators. It calls for a three-year phase-out of direct
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U.S. Warns “Imbalance” In Doha Talks Needs Fixing

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The Obama administration said March 2 there would be no agreement in long-running world trade talks aimed at cutting rich country farm subsidies and promot ing global development until other countries make better offers to open their markets to U. S. goods. The warning came in the first U. S. annual trade agenda report prepared
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U. S. farmers get another governor

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If conventional leadership and bureaucratic competency had a face, it would look exactly like Thomas J. Vilsack: round as an apple pie, chin disappearing under sagging cheeks, greying (and amply present) hair. President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Vilsack, the two-term (1998-2006) Iowa governor, to lead the U. S. Department of Agriculture marks the third non-farming

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