Category: mike johanns
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What You Talkin About?
<blockquote>Soaring corn prices are squeezing meat and milk producers, but consumers will not necessarily see higher prices at the grocery checkout, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said in an interview Thursday.<br />n<br />nCostly corn has made it more expensive to feed cows, chickens and pigs. Demand for ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has pushed the…
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USDA Fights for Canadian Cattle
USDA stands for United States Department of Agriculture. I repeat United States. Check this out.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/061406-usda.htm"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>’s Inconsistent <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> Policies Continue to Cost U.S. Cattle Industry Billions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Following the December 2003 discovery in Washington state of…
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Not Mandatory, Yet
<a href="http://www.farmfutures.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=CD26BEDECA4A4946A1283CC7786AEB5A&nm=News&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=2B5B435BBE6A4B9AA6848821D72B364F"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Outlines Plan, Benchmarks for National Animal ID Implementation</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A new proposal from <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> outlines timelines and benchmarks for the establishment of the National Animal…
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Japan Unsure
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030600142.html">Japan says unclear if U.S. beef actions would work</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Japan's vice farm minister said on Monday it is unclear if actions proposed by Washington would help prevent shipments of banned U.S. beef to Japan.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMore stonewalling from Japan on the beef issue. Not surprising but it would be nice to get this…