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Kansas Dairy Producers Disagree Over Proposed Labeling Regs

Associated Press/High Plains Journal (Kans.)
May 13, 2008 - Draft regulations would allow label statements products are free of artificial hormones, but also require a disclaimer that the milk isn't different from that produced by hormone-injected cows....
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Bush, Congress Set for Clash Over $300B Farm Bill

USA Today
May 12, 2008 - The Bush administration says the legislative package is stuffed with wasteful handouts to wealthy growers, which supporters defend as a needed rural safety net that also expands nutrition aid for the poor....
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EU, U.S. To Discuss Freeing Up Trans-Atlantic Trade

Associated Press/The International Herald Tribune
May 12, 2008 - Officials will meet on Tuesday to consider the lifting of import bans on U.S. chickens and mandatory holds on low-voltage European appliances, among other trade issues....
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Recall Data Sought From Big Food Firms

Omaha World-Herald
May 09, 2008 - The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce has asked 47 companies to provide details on all the recalls and safety alerts they had issued since Jan. 1, 2000....
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Lawmakers Finish Farm Bill as White House Repeats Opposition

Associated Press/AP Online
May 09, 2008 - The legislation would require that meats and other fresh foods be labeled with their country of origin, but subsuidues to growers are a sticking point for the president....
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Statement by USDA Secretary on HSUS Animal Cruelty Video

U.S. Department of Agriculture
May 08, 2008 - Secretary Ed Schafer said, "In my conversation with the Humane Society last week, I expressed my sincere desire to work with them to resolve these atrocities, and I trust USDA was given all the information HSUS has on this issue so we can thoroughly address it. It is essential that we work together in good faith."...
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Russia to Begin Allowing Importation of U.S. Livestock

U.S. Department of Agriculture
May 08, 2008 - The new live animal protocols will allow U.S. exporters to participate in Russia's $300 million market for live animal imports....
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Chesapeake Bay Crab Harvest Rules Aired

The Baltimore Sun
May 08, 2008 - Watermen fear proposed limits intended preserve and increase the crab population will ruin commercial fishing in the region....
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U.S.-Canada Potato Trade Rules Updated

U.S. Department of Agriculture
May 07, 2008 - The USDA and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency agreed on Monday to modified guidelines to allow for the continued trade of potatoes should there be future detections of potato cyst nematodes in either country....
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Thailand Drops Rice Cartel Plan

Associated Press
May 06, 2008 - Instead, leaders will meet next week to discuss how to deal with rice prices that have tripled this year to $1,000 a metric ton....
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