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Thursday, February 24, 2005

Lawsuit By Canadian Beef Producers Could Cost U.S. Hundreds Of Millions
Canadian ranchers and feedlot owners, under the name Canadian Cattlemen for Fair Trade (CCFT) filed suit last fall for damages under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Canadians, about 500 of whom have signed on to the complaint, claim that the closing of the border to live c... Continued...

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

World Must Act on Bird Flu or Face Pandemic -- U.N.
HO CHI MINH CITY () - The world is overdue for an influenza pandemic and must act swiftly if it is to prevent one being triggered by the bird flu now endemic in parts of Asia where it has killed 46 people, U.N. officials said on Wednesday. "The world is now in the gravest possible danger of a pa... Continued...

U.S. Expects Strict Rules to Limit Initial Imports of Canadian Cattle
WASHINGTON -- Complex rules to regulate how Canadian cattle are allowed back into the U.S. will prevent an influx of the animals when the border is opened March 7, and delays may postpone trade for as much as three to four months, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said. Ron DeHaven, head o... Continued...

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Avian Flu World's No. 1 Threat, CDC Head Says
WASHINGTON - Avian flu poses the single biggest threat to the world right now and health officials may not yet have all the tools they need to fight it, the head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday. Vaccine efforts are still focused on garden-variety influenza, which k... Continued...

Risk Of Deadly Global Epidemic As Bid To Halt Spread Of Bird Flu Is Foiled
Thailand, one of two countries at the centre of the bird flu outbreak, is refusing to act against its spread, scuppering attempts to stop a devastating pandemic expected to kill tens of millions of people around the globe. An emergency plan to tackle the disease, drawn up by the country's Deputy ... Continued...

A Bitter Harvest
The final act of a controversy over GM crops that sets America against Europe unfolds today in Geneva. The World Trade Organisation will hear the closing arguments in a case where the public authority of both the European commission and the WTO is at stake. In May 2003 the US, Argentina and Canad... Continued...

Vietnam to Test Bird Flu Vaccine on People
HANOI - Vietnamese scientists will conduct human tests of a new vaccine against the deadly bird flu virus which has claimed 13 lives in recent weeks, state media reported on Friday. The tests would follow successful results from initial tests on chicken and mice, which produced antibodies, th... Continued...

Sunday, February 20, 2005

City Dwellers Plow Money Into Farmland
Investors who might not know a tractor from a silo are hiring farmers to do their bidding. By Times Staff Writer February 20, 2005 MALVERN, Iowa — In 32 years of farming, Roger Wyant has learned how to judge a piece of ground. And he judged this one to be a lost cause. It was a rugged 10... Continued...

Friday, February 18, 2005

President’s Budget Cuts Agriculture And Evades Responsibility
The 2002 Farm Bill was a bipartisan agreement that made improvements in nutrition, conservation, and rural development initiatives, as well as in farm commodity programs. Republicans and Democrats worked together to negotiate this legislation because they knew that a strong Farm Bill would help make... Continued...

Thursday, February 17, 2005

World Food Programe And United States Denounced For Distributing Genetically Modified Food In Central America
A genetically modified maize unauthorized for human consumption, StarLink, was found in food aid distributed by the World Food Programme in Central America. February 16, 2005, Managua, San Salvador, San Jose, Guatemala, Tegucigalpa -- More than 70 environmental, consumer, farmer, human rights gro... Continued...

Bird Flu More Widespread Than Thought: Study
Bird flu may have infected more people than thought, according to a study published on Thursday which suggests the virus can attack all parts of the body, rather than just the respiratory tract, but this has not been spotted by doctors. The research focuses on two Vietnamese children, a brother a... Continued...

Urgent Plea For Avian Flu Vaccines Issued As Human Death Toll Increases
February 17, 2005 Thursday Final Edition The World Health Organization is to issue an urgent appeal to governments to start manufacturing and stockpiling vaccines against the deadly Asian bird flu experts believe is poised to trigger a global influenza pandemic. The emergency appeal, reporte... Continued...

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Minnesota Ethanol Production Will Require Savvy Business Strategies To Continue Successful Industry
With other factors being equal, demand for efficiency could eventually drive ethanol production away from Minnesota. Minnesota and the state's ethanol plants' success and financial reward as early adapters will require savvy business strategies to continue to build a successful ethanol industry h... Continued...

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

What Is Avian Flu?
Avian or bird flu is caused by a new type of influenza virus (H5N1) that has emerged in South-East Asia in recent years. It is endemic in chickens and ducks in countries such as Vietnam and Thailand. Initially it was believed the virus could only be transmitted by direct contact between an infec... Continued...

Agriculture Commodity Prices Continue Long-Term Decline
WASHINGTON and ROME and GENEVA, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The long-term downward trend in agricultural commodity prices threatens the food security of hundreds of millions of people in some of the world's poorest developing countries where the sale of commodities is often the only source of cash, says... Continued...

Grassley Reintroduces Payment Limitation Bill
From Sen. Chuck Grassley today introduced legislation to target farm subsidies to small and medium sized farmers. He introduced the legislation with Sen. Byron Dorgan, of North Dakota. “The reality of farm payments is not a pretty site and the numbers only continue to get worse. We’re now facin... Continued...

Monday, February 14, 2005

Bush's Budget Would Change Farm Bill
The Bush administration Feb. 7 proposed an Agriculture Department budget that would make a 5 percent cut in the subsidies for every crop and dairy farmer in the country, reduce the percentage of a crop eligible for marketing loans, impose a 1.2 percent marketing assessment on all processed sugar and... Continued...

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Iowa Hurt By Its Embrace Of Industrial Agriculture
Lately the Iowa Legislature has been trying to find a way to solve a basic problem: how to keep young people from leaving the state. Right now, Iowa's "brain drain" is second only to North Dakota's. The Legislature is toying with a simple idea, getting rid of state income tax for everyone under 30. ... Continued...

Friday, February 11, 2005

Ag Secretary Says Subsidies Need Limits
Anticipating a fight in Congress over President Bush's proposed farm cuts, new Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Thursday that large operations are reaping too big a share of government subsidies. "There's a point at which there should be a limit," said Johanns, a former farm-state governor... Continued...

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Industry Reacts To Johanns' Order To Delay Imports Of Meat From Older
Industry reaction to Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns' decision to block import of beef products from cattle over 30 months old from Canada, but to allow live animals under 30 months old, as well as products from cattle of that age, to begin flowing on March 7, was immediate and mainly negative. ... Continued...