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03/12/2010 - Export Promotion Cabinet President Obama has signed an Executive Order establishing an Export Promotion Cabinet. Read more... |
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03/02/2010 - Health Care Reform White House aides say President Obama will release a revised version of his health-care proposal this week, and it will address some of the issues Republicans raised at the Blair House... Read more... |
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02/26/2010 - Health Care Summit The Presidential Health Care Summit featured a lot of early finger pointing. Read more... |
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02/24/2010 - EPA on Green House Gases EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has laid out the timetable for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Read more... |
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02/22/2010 - Commission to Tackle Budget President Obama has signed an executive order creating a bipartisan commission to address the government’s budget problems. Read more... |
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02/17/2010 - ERS Forecasts The USDA Economic Research Service projects that net farm income for U.S. producers will be up 11.8 percent this year from 2009. Read more... |
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02/14/2010 - Guest Work Program Under changes published by the U.S. Read more... |
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02/12/2010 - Senate Jobs Bill A 52-billion dollar bipartisan jobs bill that includes disaster assistance to farmers has been introduced in the U.S. Senate. Read more... |
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02/10/2010 - Presidential Task Force President Obama has pledged his administration to a redoubling of efforts to solve the problem of childhood obesity. Read more... |
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02/08/2010 - USDA Adjusting Animal ID Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says USDA will develop a new, flexible framework for animal disease traceability in the United States, and undertake several other... Read more... |
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02/05/2010 - Call for Estate Tax It appears Republicans on Capitol Hill are feeling some new legislative clout now that Republican Scott Brown has officially taken the Massachusetts Senate seat formerly held by the late Democrat... Read more... |
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02/04/2010 - Farmer‘s Tax Calendar After nearly three decades of consulting with farmers on tax matters, Paul Neiffer of Hansen Neiffer CPAs & Consultants (www.hansenneiffer.com) realized farmers need a tax calendar to know when the numerous... Read more... |
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02/03/2010 - Budget The American Meat institute points out that the proposed 2011 Federal budget includes an intention to submit legislation to collect two new inspection user fees. Read more... |
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02/02/2010 - President Sends Budget Saying it’s time to - live within our means, - President Obama has sent to Congress his budget for 2011. Read more... |
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01/29/2010 - State of the Union Along with acknowledging rural communities have been hit especially hard by the economic recession - President Obama touched on a number of issues important to the nation’s farmers and ranchers during his... Read more... |
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01/27/2010 - Senate Rejects Budget The U.S. Senate has rejected by a vote of 53 to 46 a plan to create a budget commission that would have worked to address the nation’s soaring budget deficit. 60 votes were necessary to pass the plan. Read more... |
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01/26/2010 - Vote on Deficit-Reduction The U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Dean Foods Company seeking to undo its April 2009 purchase of dairy processing plants from Foremost Farms USA because of competition concerns. Read more... |
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01/25/2010 - Pork Safe A study conducted by scientists with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service confirms that meat and tissue from pigs exposed to two strains of the 2009 novel pandemic H1N1 virus did not contain the... Read more... |
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01/17/2010 - U.S. Food to Haiti When last week’s earth quake hit Haiti the world stood still and took notice. Then it went into action. Read more... |
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01/14/2010 - AFBF Delegates take Action Delegates at the 91st American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting in Seattle voted to support a balanced federal budget over... Read more... |
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01/13/2010 - 2009 Crop Records U.S. Read more... |
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01/12/2010 - Francl Reports on Crop Trends A potential federal boost to the ethanol market, South American forecasts, reduced global cotton output and an international outpouring of wheat... Read more... |
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01/11/2010 - Scientists Want Chance Members of the American Farm Bureau Federation are gathered in Seattle for their annual meeting. Read more... |
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01/08/2010 - 2010 Crop The weather has forced producers to revamp cropping choices significantly for 2010. Read more... |
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01/06/2010 - Taiwan on Beef Taiwan‘s legislature has voted to ban the import of some U.S. beef and beef products. Read more... |
