Home Markets News Weather Farm Futures NOW! Magazine Online RSS News Land For Sale Mobile Subscribe Reprints Register Login About Us Advertise Senate Will Wait Until Spring to Move on Climate Change Bill Corn Quality Storm Water Runoff Exemption Threatened Record Harvest Finally In the Books Ford Pulls Out Ahead - Again Snow, Slush and Discouragement Give Way to Blue Skies Selling power Computer Choices Abound...Again The Idling Drummer Precision Ag Reaching Critical Mass? Traditional Versus Factory Farms European Farm Equipment: Bigger, with Better Gadgets Looking at How Land Use May Impact the Climate Estate Tax Fix Could Be Coming Rain Interrupts Push to Get Crops Out of Field Adkins Reviews his Farm Science Favorites CAFOs Under Fire Good News on Corn and Milo Harvest From the Ground to The Sky On Biofuels Food Security is Everyone's Concern Embrace Some Changes . . . Run From Others Farming is COOL AIR Retakes The Lead Why Is the University System Wrapped In a Blanket of Red Tape? Bad end to bright night See it on TV You Couldn't Ask For a Better Day in the Flint Hills And You Think You’ve Got It Bad Ohioans Vote in Favor of Issue 2 Got an EPA Permit? Avoiding Trouble with that E-mail In Box Best Laid Plans Hats Off to Gary Steinhardt and Company Europeans, Americans Face Hard Truths in Ag Policies One More Time: Relying on Foreign Supplies Is Not Good Tools Used To Last Several Lifetimes Ignorance Can Be Expensive Rains Delay Wheat Emergence Wet and Wild Get Rid of Livestock! Save The Planet! Unfavorable Harvest Weather! New Fuel Source Breakthrough Thinking Beyond the Current Year Bell Tolls on Georgia/Florida Tobacco They're Still Kids Inside the Blue Jackets Ford Runs Out Front Taking on the Animal Activists Older and, Hopefully, Wiser Beetles: A Bad Horror Movie Bad Boy LSV Shoots for Tax Credit and Outdoor Use Will it ever stop raining? Less than 10% of farms participate in ACRE program Facing the Issue Who Wants to Regulate and Shut Down CAFOs? Advances in Bioenergy Finally, Harvest Weather -- Until It Rains Again The Best Hayride Ever Imagine a 4-H Livestock Show with no Rules Biomass is Challenge and Opportunity This is no Winter Wonderland A Tough Harvest Winterization Can Prevent Cursing In the Spring Would You Try The Soil Pit Crawl? A Change for Microsoft COOL in the Frozen Food Isle Go Ford Cotton! Machinery Sales Slip in September Dairy Crisis: #1 Concern Car Buying Without Government Assistance Stewardship of the Past Involves Grasses Realistic Look at Long-Term Yield Goals Pre-Harvest Stress Congress Moves Forward New Bio-Security Lab U.S., Canada Unable to Resolve COOL Issues Cow Gas, More Corn, Health in Soybeans Cheaper Crop Insurance! Hey, Mr. Dean, Can I Get a Jump! Rush is on...Keep Safety in Mind Race to harvest Meet Buffalo Bill Soybean Market Moves With Weather Forecast Contradictions in Life Cycle Analysis and Cap & Trade Senate Climate Change Bill Lacks Ag Provisions Short Winter? Seed Trap A Trip to the Prairie Recalls Keep Coming Thick and Fast Planting Wheat in Trying Times Farmers fill out Top 10 Next Time You're In the Shop, Look Up My Engine! Knowledge Passed Down Through the Generations More Attacks Against Animal Ag Why 'Net Neutrality' is an Issue to Follow The Kids Just Get Younger and Younger Ford Retools Super Duty Truck Line Beware of Fred Whitford's Ball Bat Bring Back the 'Little' Combine? Asian Connection in the Corn Belt Measure Introduced to Prevent EPA from Implementing Indirect Land Use Rule The Vice President’s Luncheon Defying definition: the Sustainable Family Farm Chipping Away at Indirect Land Use Myths Climate Change Legislation May Get Delayed Keeping the Right Priorities On the Downhill Slide Kansas State Fair of 2009 is History The Coach Takes a Hit Fact-based Farce Puts Ag in Spotlight Seeing an Old Friend is Good for the Soul A Dakotan at Husker Harvest Days Industry in Transition? It's Fun to See What People are Noticing at Husker Harvest Days A Tale of Two Dealers Step Backwards Into Dairy Profitablity? Whew! One Show Down...Another This Week A True Farm Tech Pioneer You Are No Upton Sinclair, Sir Will the Environmental Protection Agency Clamp Down on Runoff? USDA Pleads With Media to Use H1N1 Name for Pandemic Influenza Cool Breeze and Hot Words at Kansas State Fair Dare To Do Demonstrations Live Keeping Perspective on Market Changes Harkin Will No Longer Head Senate Ag Committee Be Frugal With Your Tax Dollars Where Did the Ever-Worsening Grain Shortage Go? A checklist: Ways to Reconnect with Consumers Now Is Never A Good Time, But . . . Interesting Software Tips from High-Producing Growers Businessmen in Blue Jeans New leader in Individual Competition Energy Picture Still Full of Mixed Messages Northeast Crop Prospects Improve The Weather Was the Star of the Show The Return of the Scout Recycled Motor Oil Can Be Just as Good as New! Northern corn woes Tech Trend Questions Give Pause New Names in Top Ten Sanctions Approved in Brazil Cotton Case Standing on Other Side of Auction Ring Changes Perspective Senate Ag Committee Chairmanship Could See Changes Company Fills California Equipment Niche A Hundred Years Putting the Policy Cart Before the Science Horse Luck Is Watching Nature In the Country The Farm Progress Show Site Is Ready to Dazzle Visitors Showing a Profit Counts As a Win Productivity a Plus with New Tools Meet Ohio’s Conservation Farmers Being 'Cashed Out' By Clunky Thinking? Play Money Moves Smoother Risk Management Creeps into Field Day Machinery Launches Offer Fun, Information Indirect Land Use Model Undergoes Peer Review Putting a face on 'corporate' farming The Refuge Management Game Is Evolving Teaching Old Designs New Tricks As the Crow Flies Game Kicks Into High Gear This Miss America Much More Than a Title Fight for Ethanol Gets a New Weapon Don't Miss 'Defining Moments' Is ag facing a culture war? Farmer Spending Ramping Up Resources available for those considering to sign-up for ACRE Timing for Tech Purchases Makes Sense CSP sign-up begins today Meet 'Your Kind of People' Unique Promotion Definitely Got My Attention Tips from Texas Counting Down the Days A Blatant Waste of Your Resources and Mine Master Farmer Gathering Turns Into a Reunion Farm Labor Supply Surprising Tobacco Growers From Corn Yields to Prions The (Sweet Corn) Ears Have It House passes food safety bill with grain farm exemption A big party in Texas One Conservation Project at a Time What a Difference 30 Years Can Make Wolff Is Needed In Washington Living In the Country Affords Some Quiet Time Hay day fun Teams Revving Up For 2009-10 Game Not Starting from Square One Summer Meeting Circuit Is Full of Expert Advice Exciting Times Continue at County Fairs Development Beat Marches On New technologies for ag Form and Function Vilsack testifies that agriculture can benefit from climate change legislation Researchers Make Progress on Salt Tolerance A subsidy is a subsidy is a subsidy! What is a megafarm, really? County Fairs Still Hold Special Magic What's in a Domain Name? Aussie Travel Tour Continues This Has Nothing to Do with Farming The Caddy Speaks Part II Economic Aftershocks To Shake Agriculture Social Media Gets More Serious Pick Peanut Crackers Made in The United States Set Seven Extra Plates for Dinner Missouri River fishing story Remembering the Harvest Practices of Yesterday Organic Dairy Farmers Set for Symbolic Dumping of Milk Plan To Cancel Wind Farm No Big Surprise Applying Tech Everywhere Weather Pulls Crop Forward Unintended Consequences are Consequences Just the Same Battle Against 'Artificial' Hormones Misguided on Many Levels YouTube Therapy Judging the Cost of Overlap Can we feed hungry world without proven technology? Wheat Harvest Winding Down THIS is Our America! Aussie Trekers Travel Ohio Rumor Mill Fires Up Saving 'Private Sow?' House passes climate change bill My Carbon Footprint Grew To Sasquatch Size Finding the Humor in Honesty Slaughter Slashes Cull Prices The March to Cleaner Engines Continues Heavier Semis: A Good Idea? Show Me a Master Farmer Just Because They Haven't Come for Us, We Can't Be Complacent HSUS Considering a Referendum for Nov. 2010 It Truly Is a Small World After All 2009 Wheat Harvest Rolling Toward Memory Is Jim Hagemann A Polluter? Agriculture finds some middle ground in climate change bill Dealing with Animal Welfare Groups: It's Time to Get Proactive Crazy Animal Rights Tactics Lining Up with New Products Low Milk Prices Spurring Louder Protest Sign up for Market $ense Manage for healthy soybeans Individual Grit and Determination Still Work, Despite Being Out of Style It's All in the Details Wisdom of the fathers New Rendering Rule Is Classic Over Regulation Tough Start for Grain Crops What Frog Shortage? ACRE sign-up moved back until Aug. 14 New Way to Get Equipment Information Another Season to Forget in Indiana- So Far From Bobcat To Horseback Ohio's battle plan for animal activists Got An Idea For Bobcat? PETA Wants Your Help Emerging Details on Carbon Cap and Trade Disturbing What’s new at Bobcat Rain Keeps Wheat Harvest at Bay Court grants extension on Clean Water Acts Hay Expo Provides a Break From Corn Talk Company Offers Interesting Move for 2010 Vacation Time Not Without Pressure Not Like Your Father's Farm Equipment Dealership $400 a Ton Anhydrous? Worrying About Carbon Cap And Trade Greening of Ag is Just Beginning Global Warming -- Get Out Of Here Living Among My Ancestors Think Outside the Gate Planter Power Pays Big Time This Year Post crash thinking for a better world Farm Progress Show's Seed Technology Plots Ready for Emergence Catching a Sniff of Show Season Peterson unhappy with climate change bill Day Two ASABE Quarter Scale Tractor Competition (With Video) Time and 'Tech' Sure Have Changed Us Are You Ready to Rumble? Auditorium Full of Blue Jackets Inspirational There's More Than One Way to Use a Briggs & Stratton Engine! Steering Update: More Work Done as Weather Clears Buckeyes Sit at Carbon Table Oil Coolers are Cheap Insurance Against Frustration and Expensive Repairs Doggone It Trading punches over E15 Deals Abound, Market Wants your Business We’ve Got Nothing Over Mother Nature Don't Wait To Tune Up the Dryer USDA Doesn't Listen Steering Toward A Better Life Ag has concerns over cap-and-trade provisions Update - Indiana Lightbar User Gets More Experience Real Dairy Leaders Needed, Wanted Tractors Need Spring Cleaning Too Save a hog farmer, eat more pork Countdown to Harvest is Under Way A Week Without Rain? Reliving Old Memories Always Fun for Hoosiers Be Safe in the Rush to Plant Farm Equipment Sales Slide Caution: You May Own "Waters of the U.S." Fun With Faulstichs How We've Changed! When It Rains It Pours Swine Flu Episode Exposes Chinks in Communication Armor Interagency working group formed Recesson Smells of Ag Opportunity EPA proposes anticipated RFS2 rule "Indirect Land Use charges:•bCrLf The next ethanol battleground Obama Warms Me Up With Biofuel Talk It's that second you'd like to have to live over again Compromise Reached on Coal-Fired Plant for Sunflower Move on Auto Industry to Impact Ag? Don't Blame Ethanol Define Corporate Farm Lessons Learned From a Year Ago Pork Producers Respond to Flu Outbreak A Tax By Any Other Name Is Still a Tax Just As Flood Waters Recede, More Rain Is Coming All Farming Busts Loose More Evidence That Kansas State Is Right Location for NBAF Cotton Hits Break-Even Price Shop local at a chain near you Swine Flu Fallout Is Making Me Sick Back Up Electronic Data Before It's Too Late Flooding Hits Much of Kansas After Six Inches of Rain Field Update - Putting New Tech to Work Rush Limbaugh Becomes Spokesman for HSUS It Was a Great Day for a Wildfire! Ethanol victory, but the war goes on Making Time for Sunday Worship Tractor Drive Can Be Therapeutic If You Don't Tell Your Story, No One Will Activists Looking at Fungicide? Why the First Lady Will Appreciate Farmers Changing of the Guard A Swiss View On Animal Rights Fieldwork and floods Big Green Makes Reorganization News Has Obama been good for Ag? Jimmy Cheney wasn't with us long enough Dump Poor Customer Service Providers! Blessings Don't Always Arrive at Convenient Times Handling Planting Season Phone Calls Senators introduce ethanol pipeline legislation The Proof is in the Rust on the Plow Council Encourages Producers to Become Animal Activists Snow Flurries in April No Surprise Criticism Cresting Is My America the Same as Uncle Sam's? Tomorrow's Farmers Have a Lot on Their Minds Online Parts Ordering in Your Future? Senate passes death tax amendment A "Busted" 4-H Story and The Technology Explosion Adversity Could Bring Opportunity USDA extends ACRE sign-up by 10 weeks Backyard Food Supplies Pride After the Fall USDA and IRS want to collaborate on policing farm payments Goodbye, Corn-man A Penny For Your Thoughts? Finding Some Predictability in Diesel Prices A Miserable 24 Hours Welfare of Animals Comes First as Blizzard Rages Adversity Brings Opportunity Not Nuts about Preconceived Notions Learning the Lightbar Radio Commercial Strikes a Scary Note "It's Only a Little Leak," said the Captain of the Titanic Flood Fight On the Red Sen. Voinovich talks Agriculture A Reason To Smile Nurse Practitioners: A Modern Solution to a Nagging Problem Alliances Open Doors to Interesting Ideas Concern over land use calculations continue Food Contamination Has Simple Answer Losing Our Ever-Loving Minds in the Name of Safety Dan's Inflation Market Basket Budget Squeeze Hits State Ag Agencies Managing for higher yields The Minimum Wage Myth Farmers' Thoughts Turn Toward Spring Weather Don't Miss an Opportunity Ag Producers Speak One Language Congress' Common Sense is MIA Conservation Easements Create Jobs? Take That, Animal Rights Activists Making a Combine Statement Are You a Rich Farmer? USDA announces start of economic stimulus funding Planning to Stay Ahead Follow South Dakota’s Lead On Ethanol Winding down in Hong Kong "China will be the last to fail•bCrLf Farm Support For Coal Plants Is No Mystery China now king of grain processing world Ethanol groups request higher ethanol blending level How Do We Get The Bidding Started? The Rush of Spring...is Coming Abandoned Horse Web Site Draws Attention to Lack of Slaughter Chinese agriculture is woefully inadequate How trade with China happens Focus, Mr. President, Focus on Goal #1 Don't Worry Be Happy How to feed, manage 1.3 billion people Two Sides of the Animal 'Coin' in Indiana Some Good News to Season the Bad Not Better Than Tractors First impressions: Beijing is big, proud and smoggy Obama's call for farm subsidy cuts unwelcome in Congress Record Deer Season Not Enough Farmer Panel Offers Insight Buy Cotton Options Now Food Safety Can Be Simple Fertilizer Report #1 Jet BioFuel About to Take Off Ready to Introduce New Master Farmers The view from China Sometimes the World is Still Smaller than You Think Do Fungicides Cause Physiological Responses? You CAN use less energy ND Again Eyes Cuban Market Shrinking Our Excesses Would Be Good Is Ohio the Next Target for Animal Rights Extremists? Midwest Power Shift Pioneer Seeks a Mighty Wind Utility Vehicle Makes a Stretch Stretching Out to Cover More Acres Horses: The last untapped source of protein on the North American continent Big Planter Captures Imagination Flexible, Maneuverable and BIG! Return of an Icon? Is It Spring Yet? Peanut Recall Gets More Confusing Farm Economy Worries Rise Stimulus package provides funds for rural America Agriculture: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon Thank You Mr. Lincoln Speak up for Peanut Producers The changing of the seasons can be violent Some disturbing news Farm Bureau Talks Budget Acre shifters: What factors impact last minute planting decisions? Where did the money go? Where is the National Peanut Board? Farm Show Ahead...Excitement to Follow Payment limitation booklet available online Where Meat Comes From, It's Not Science Fiction Peanut Math Doesn't Add Up Are payment limits unfair? The Law of Gravity Has NOT Been Repealed More Funds and More Time to Apply for EQIP Is Welcome News AGCO launches new tractor lines Power Show Must Go On Passages Meeting the 2009 Masters If Snow Keeps Coming, Winter Could Get Really Ugly Why Uncle Sam's Getting Involved THIS is America! Line Between Life and Death Is Mighty Fine Why •Buy American' is a bad idea Telling Agriculture's Story Is An Important Job A Truly Inconvenient Truth No-Till on the Plains Draws Large Turnout Out of the Mouths of Babes Different Subject/Same Argument What a Difference Six Months Makes We Will Survive Keeping in Touch - Getting Easier Deep in the Bear Pit, hope reigns supreme Grandma’s Sugar Crème Pie After the Flood An RX for Tough Times USDA extends comment period on payment limitation rules Maybe Legislators Eat Too Much Pie Shivering through the inauguration Land Prices Are Softening? How Quickly Fortunes Change Vilsack quickly confirmed once Obama assumes helm Get an Obama Invite? Compliance, Enforcement of New EPA Rules Problematic Finally, A Smart President Cold Is Relative After All Caring for a Key Asset More Than Just Another Award Wake Up NCBA, It Wasn't Ethanol Population Rates: the Devil's in the Details A real life Valkyrie It's Official: A Lot of People Did Not Plant Wheat Bumpy Ride Ahead? Never Out Grow Your Need to Learn Good News and Bad News A Dose of Reality Needs to Set In Playing chicken with fertilizer Smooth confirmation expected for Vilsack Buy Ahead! Now's the Time! You Can’t Take Indiana Out of a Hoosier Lists, Lists and More Lists USDA to Investigate Soybean Checkoff Allegations Welcome A New Forum for Your Thoughts The Birds Know Starting Out Fresh? Where Will The Market Go? Picking High Yields in San Antonio After Dinner Discussions Obama less left than originally feared The Last Time We Touched . . . Time to Take a Deep Breath What I Learned This Christmas Global warming: Is the sky really falling? Not Ready for their Close-up Finally more details on ACRE released My New Year's Resolution Last Chance for Tax Savings Obama nominates 'pro-trade' Ron Kirk to lead USTR Why do we need foreign workers? Find Used Equipment Fast Top energy and environmental posts named Vilsack named new ag secretary Finding Inspiration During the Winter Months Kick-start the Economy -- Now ASA vs USB: Did anyone see this coming? Don't POP cotton We could use a Southerner at USDA Company Move Aimed at Matching Machines to Markets Two ag secretary potentials work to the top Farming and Inventing Go Hand in Hand Exercise Your Financial Health Big Food: Nowhere to hide Christmas Tunes Future Electronics Get Push Our Economic Health Must Come First Bobbing for Nickels Obama targets farm payments in financial mess Stop Feeding the 'Monster' Is an FFV Mandate the Answer to Foreign Oil Dependence? APH or CRC? From Dust to Dust Maximizing that Capacity States also see growing Democratic control after elections Fresh From Florida "Toms" top next ag secretary list Heading into 'Crazy Season' All About Corn (Well, Almost) Machinery Sales Demand to Continue? Finding the Next Best Thing Reader Calls to Discuss Premise Registration Obama improved Democratic presence in rural areas Tight credit, poor prices keep grain out of export channels The Scariest Part of November 4 Was . . . Emerson Nafziger Attempts to Replicate Kip Cullers' Soybean Yield Prop 2 Swings the Door Open Big-Rig Pickup? President Obama: Good for agriculture? Agriculture welcomes Obama as new president Democracy Prevailed Ahh, It's Almost Over! Really? Only Half Done With Corn? Election only days away Seed Selection Boosts Yield Share Ag's Good Financial News Getting attention in Congress The Tigers Woods of Presidential Hopefuls Putting Things In Perspective My Mind's Made Up! How Are You Capitalizing on Cheap Diesel? Candidates differ on ag subsidies Moving Ahead with Buying Plans Good News You Can Use When a Hobby Becomes an Obsession Like Deer, Questions Come in All Sizes Making the U.S. Industrial Case Keeping Ag Out of the Eye of the Financial Storm Sun sets on Sunbelt Presidential candidates on tax policy Happy To Be Here High Profile Pigs Year of the Utility Tractor? Campaigning to Lose Congress wraps up loose ends Montgomery County Farmers Continue to Fight Against Longwall Miners Exploring New Cotton Technology Here's What I've Heard Regarding Fertilizer Prices Congress approves farm bill fixes Transportation efficiency: It's your business No Lipstick on These Pigs Bigger, Faster, Oh My Game Over Where is the Truth? As if Politicians Weren't Already Confused Going Electric? Chrysler Makes a Statement Toyota Pushes Full-Size Truck Line into the Farming Segment McCain ahead in rural swing states St. Louis: It's No Chicago Biofuel: What's now -- and not! House approves speculation limiting bill Equipment Availability and Brand Loyalty Collide Will $1 Buy Cotton Acres? Energy package goes to floor today What happened in Week 14? Losses Overwhelming Ever Since 9-11 ACRE implementation causing concern Lucky Time at a Farm Show Is It Just Me, Or Was August Ridiculously Cool? Capital Overtakes Elephants Saying Not Goodbye, But See Ya Later Another Crop Rally Coming? Agriculture Heats Up Local Politics Loss to Profit Chasm Widens Define Trade Distorting It's an Elephant Market A Precision Change? Agronomy Day: A Great Way to Catch Up on the Latest Research Are you SURE on farm bill disaster program? Good News Keeps on Coming Put cash on the table, then we'll talk Biodiesel survey reveals consumer good will New at Boone! Farm Progress Show opens with a bang Holding On Pays Dividends Weed Management and Refuge Planting: One in the Same? Facts in Plain Sight Packing for the Big Show Key Reversal Takes Toll Key Reversal Takes Toll Supply, Demand and Early Frost Farm bill questions? Marketing Scam or Cause for Concern Savor the South Hat's Off to the Thinking Farmer Ramping up for 'Fieldwork' Downed Corn Along the Road Past Grain's Peak; Now What? Cheaper Food to Come CRP: Hold or Fold? Hat's Off to the Thinking Farmer Fool Me Over and Over Again Who needs Doha? An ethanol victory (for once) Ethanol industry support maintained Diversity Drives the Land of Lincoln Stout Hearts; Deep Pockets AIR Takes Flight Grain exports through a farmers' eyes Doha hopes sizzle away again USDA: Penalties remain in place for existing CRP contracts Class Without Cash Judge Limits CRP Grazing Market on Slippery Slope Greed Alters Profit Opportunities Markets Shake Up Standings Judge Limits CRP Grazing Ideal Weather Clouds Markets Go Southern Farmers! Tax Provision Tweaks in This Year's Farm Bill The Port: Firing on all cylinders Buy-in to get covered under new disaster assistance programs Worn Out on Wheat Rural Vote Up for Grabs Wherewithal Limits Gains Key Ag Issues Hinge on Fall Elections Go Long for Profit Wheat Warrior Anticipates Cotton Move Bin building boom continues World food policies must change — including our own Farm Bill Implementation Underway Wild Ride Dips Teams in Red Farm Moves don't Match Game Play Manage Price Decisions Markets Offer Wild Ride Only Two Teams are in the Black Revisiting ethanol mandates Ford Down, But Not Out Full farm bill finally becomes law Hedge Farm Profits in the Market AIR Team Takes an Early Lead "This growing season sucks" Animosity Over ACRE Climate bill hits ag's bottom line First Impressions Farm bill limbo Revenue-based program offers protection against low prices and/or yields Teams Warm up for FACTsim! Suderman Weighs in on Corn Crop Would farmers back Barack? USDA, farm groups slam anti-biofuel campaign Take Stock in Inputs Farm bill becomes law, almost entirely Clerical error sends farm bill into limbo Managing for 300-bu. corn (part two) President officially vetoes farm bill Congress sends farm bill to White House Managing for 300-bu. corn (part one) House passes farm bill by veto proof margin Grocers target biofuels, with Big Oil's help Bush unhappy with lack of reform, budget gimmicks Let the Games Begin! President Bush veto threat still stands Farm bill negotiators lower payment limits Go vegan? A billion or so Chinese would disagree Big Oil: Laughing all the way to the bank Conference continues, extending again 2002 farm bill How do countries manipulate their farm economies? Let's count the ways Maybe we've finally got a deal• Are we feeding the fuel tank but starving the world? President calls for one year farm bill extension One more week to settle out tax credit differences Agreement made on three titles, tax breaks stall talks One-week extension in the works Farm bill conference starts off on rough patch When Will Corn Belt Dry Out? House conferees named•ball is finally rolling Final farm bill still up in the air Auto steer and auto swath: Worth the money? Why farmers outsource Paying a price for prosperity Direct payments on the chopping block Disaster program bogs down farm bill President grants one more month Be careful out there! Fight over who controls the money Administration keeps fighting for reforms Farm Bill: Chance for reform ticking away Revenue assurance still on the table Cleaning the desk! (part one) Senate, House work on farm bill compromise Even Jaws loves biodiesel Framework deal offers glimpse of hope in farm bill negotiations Bush reiterates farm bill veto threat Biodiesel plants won't gain much from mandate More biodiesel... from less soy oil Welcome to the biodiesel rock concert Biodiesel industry may look for cheaper feedstock Schafer's first week as ag secretary Despite Demand, same old European trade mentality Hold-up on Schafer confirmation It's profit in any language British food prices up 12% Farm Bill Dominates Farm Bureau Convention Discussion Beware! Farm Bill Changes Ahead Anhydrous prices have farmers hopping mad Finalized energy bill gives needed boost for 2008 Mystery surrounds •world demand' for fertilizer Farm Bill failure fuels anti-ag campaign No real reform in Senate passed farm bill Senate gets deep into farm bill amendments Biofuel battle: Fact and fiction New ag secretary looks to be nothing more than an administrator Chief economist says goodbye High input costs enrage farmers Are the Republicans out to sabotage the farm bill? Politics fly in potential farm bill extension The business-as-usual Farm Bill U.S. beef is back - on European shelves Congress finally passes WRDA 2008 Farm Bill? Wanted: Fiscally Sound Farm Bill Administration issues veto threat on Senate farm bill version Floor fight expected on revenue option New ag secretary surprises many Senate ag committee approves farm bill Senate farm bill markup underway Ethanol plant margins get thinner Ethanol opponents duke it out Senate ag committee set to begin debate Wednesday Can you eat a tree for breakfast? WTO: Will U.S. Congress reject any new deal? Is a permanent disaster fund really the solution? Mike Johanns listened WRDA finally approved, Presidential veto looms Japan's farmers face uphill struggle Japan's ag policies difficult to digest Johanns resigns from USDA post Senate wrangles over farm bill funding Japan's jittery consumers need a little faith in science Time to build liquidity? Time to build liquidity? See how farm bill proposals pay A great time to be a farmer WTO takes August to regroup Harkin releases commodity title draft Why on-farm storage pays Growing Degree Days: leading to record yields? Bumper crop ahead? Farm bill expiration not a concern A look at revenue assurance House passes farm bill with tax provision included Partisan fires fuel over farm bill Peterson threatens pulling bill if Kind-Flake amendment adopted Johanns issues presidential veto threat Groups welcome House farm bill House Ag Committee finalizes farm bill Payment limits tightened, farm bill hearings continue Congress wrangles with farm bill While I was out• President Signs Disaster Bill Into Law Legislative Roundup: New bills introduced on Capitol Hill Johanns Delivers Draft Farm Bill Legislation House passes WRDA, White House not supportive Wild planting season ahead Finally EPA makes RFS law, so what! Biofuels lovefest continues Free trade activity heats up Budget battle won't hurt farm bill How to step out of the •production trap' First Payment Limit Attempt Made The end of •cheap' food First Farm Bill Debate Begins With Budget Markup NCGA Gives Revenue Assurance Second Look The Tigers Woods of Presidential hopefuls Happy days in stormy Tampa Doha Deal Not Imminent, But Hope Exists Canada's colorful farm management guru The world according to Lowell Catlett Two Farm Bill Debates - The First is Increasing the Baseline Does the Budget Cut It? Low-lin soybeans looking for more acres Vultures circle around ethanol Johanns Calls for Farm Bill Change - But Only Minimal Congress Tepid on Farm Bill Proposals 10 million more corn acres coming Bush Pushes Biofuels in State of the Union Budding biofuel business in Germany German farmer saves thousands on home-grown energy German farm fueled by rapeseed oil A bumpy ride ahead for Farm Bill Why biodiesel is the next boom Ethanol Has Banner Year in 2006 The CEO farmer of tomorrow Building spreadsheets that work on your farm Expect Less Money in Farm Bill Commodity Title A passion for planning Senate Denies Ag Disaster Aid CRP Won't Be Ethanol Factor in 2007 Ethanol investors: Make sure it's business first Fixed costs, farm bill speakers added to Management Summit CSP Will Continue, But Don't Bet The Farm On True National Program Will biofuels free us from subsidies? New Democrats More Conservative, But Not on Energy, Environment Ag Issues Take Back Seat to Urban-focused Issues Continuous corn may need biotech boost Democrats Take Full Leadership In Writing Next Year's Farm Bill Dems Take Over House, Senate Still Up for Grabs GOP Burns Loses Senate Seat Is Change What U.S. Agriculture Needs? Farm equipment makers see slowdown in 2007 Moving beyond corn-based ethanol Texas oil man cheers for ethanol ADM's new CEO heralds bio boom Are you subject to FDA's bioterrorism rules? Oil change should be voluntary Johanns Wants New Farm Bill Will you plant more corn next year? Live and in living color: The next generation of biotech wonders Let's get a little mud on the tires! More than a free lunch at this field day Meet a Specialty Crop Warrior Back to the future with closed-loop farming Start planning now for 2007 "We're eliminating the middleman" The biofuel revolution Rail companies anticipate grain market needs Corn piles ahead? Joining the hay burner fraternity Meet me in St. Louis! Food, then and now - a world apart Low-lin Soybeans Face Yield Drag Debate Low-linolenic soybeans take center stage Life of a farmhouse Trade's cleanup hitter gets benched The world according to Flinchbaugh: "The federal budget is irrelevant to the farm bill" World's largest indoor cornfield The coming crop rotation war Land prices headed for a fall? Six factors to watch Part two: More tips for a smooth farm transition Smooth transition: The right way to bring young farmers into the fold The heart of Andy Markwart Inside the mind of the European farmer Alexander Graham Bell would be amazed Why care about farm exports? Pumped up land prices hurt future farmers Do you know your magic number? U.S. subsidies at risk Show time with Max and Orion The cloudy future for trade talks What farmers say about WTO WTO: Sound and fury, little else Pepper spray and riot gear WTO: This is what deadlock looks like And now, on to Hong Kong New Tractor Fanatic Web Series! Algae: The New Oil Seinfeld dvd Let's Cook with Gail RE: Chinese may impose tariff on american poultry Direct Payments Suggestions from Landowners RE: Chinese may impose tariff on american poultry Chinese may impose tariff on american poultry Afternoon Recap by Arlan Suderman Lackluster Day on the Markets Bean Exports Hot, Others Not Livestock Call by John Otte Morning Call by Bryce Knorr Food Safety Bill Passes Senate HELP Committee President of NFU Sends Letter to Senate on Child Nutrition Reauthorization Current Estate Tax Laws Likely to be Extended for a Year Financial Oversight Considered by Senate Ag Committee Other Issues Push Climate Change to 2010 Please Place Swine Workers on H1N1 Priority List with Santa The Buzz: Battles Lines Drawn Livestock Movement is Still Weak Weekly Energy Review Possible Delay in Estate Tax Bill Food Fight Designed to Combat Misinformation Food Fight Designed to Combat Misinformation U.S. and Chinese Presidents Make Energy Announcement Duty-Free Access Subject of Sub-Committee Hearing World Trade Leader Says Ag Negotiations are Moving Senate Hold Hearing on Child Nutrition Program Mark Up of Food Safety Bill Scheduled House Bill Introduced on Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension RFA Responds to Gore Book on Energy Survey Focuses on FDA Food Safety Oversight Corn Futures Not Following Other Grains Mercantile Following the Dow All Markets Up Except for Dollar Weekly Financial Review Former Secretary Questions Need for Climate Change Legislation DOI Announces Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sale NAILE Show Has Livestock From Everywhere NAILE Show Has Livestock From Everywhere More Than 17 Million Households Struggle to Put Food on Table U.S. Meat Exports Are Mixed Bag U.S. Meat Exports Are Mixed Bag Interim Agreement on Global GGH Emissions Possible APEC Leaders Moving on Issues Study Finds No Welfare Advantage to CAS Study Finds No Welfare Advantage to CAS Politics Casting Long Shadow Over Climate Change Many Critical of Senate Banking Plan Merrigan to Chair FAO Meeting USGC and ASA Sell Commodities at Conference USDA Issuing Household Food Security Report Weekly Corn Review Weekly Soybean Review Weekly Wheat Review Talking About the Market's 'Wild Ride' New Holland Launches Largest Capacity Combine China Demand for U.S. Soybeans Still Hot Group Puts Animal Well-Being Tools Online Biofuels Supporters Frustrated by EPA on E15 Emission Allowances in Senate Climate Bill Prompts Letter Challenges Ahead for USAID Appointee Changes in Slaughter of Downer Cattle Sought Report Focuses on Global Biofuels Policy Weekly Fertilizer Review Weekly Basis Review New Fungicide Registered Dairy Group Leaders Outline Actions Seed Tech Agreement Announced Priorities for Doha Rolled Out by ASA Waterway Study Shows Decline in Chemical Levels Industry Messages Help Mexican Pork Demand Industry Messages Help Mexican Pork Demand RMA Provides Information on Obtaining Crop Insurance Extension Climate Forecasting Becoming More Useful to Farmers Revised Label for PowerFlex Herbicide Volatile Market Tied to Dollar Moves Vilsack Announces Funding for Market Access Development 25x'25 Releases Climate Change Analysis EPA Submits Greenhouse Gas Findings Next Year's Ethanol Needs Being Met By U.S. Farmers Senate Introduces Banking Regulation Bill Debate on Health Care Could Begin Next Week Rural Broadband Funds Available Sooner Pig Vaccine for H1N1 Could Be Available by End of Year Pig Vaccine for H1N1 Could Be Available by End of Year The First Domesticated Pig Genome Is Sequenced The Buzz: Beans Face Test After USDA Report Farmers Taking Advantage of Weather to Move Harvest Forward Climate Legislation Unlikely to Come to Senate Floor This Year Reauthorization of Child Nutrition Act Headed to Congress Soon Pork Producers Receive Influenza Information Pork Producers Receive Influenza Information Bipartisan Group of Representatives Introducing Bill on Cuban Trade in House Markets are on Fire Due to the Dollar USDA Announces National Pork Board Appointments House Approves Health Bill JBS Expanding Beef Operations in Russia JBS Expanding Beef Operations in Russia H1N1 Cases in Pigs Seem to be Mild H1N1 Cases in Pigs Seem to be Mild 25x'25 Wants Improvements for Agriculture in Clean Air Legislation R-CALF Pushes Agenda with USTR Workmaster Is New Moniker for New Holland Tractors Toro Introduces Layflat Hose Swisher Offers Clean Driveways Reinke Ups Warranty on Irrigation Rigs New Draper Platform from Deere Dry Fields Allow Farmers to Move Grain Across Scales COVER STORY EXTRA! From Bankruptcy to Industry Giants COVER STORY EXTRA! Defining the Issues COVER EXTRA! Download These Special Reports Information Sharing for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers More Clogged on Capitol Hill Policies can Overcome Impediments to Going Organic Renewable Fuels Being Promoted by Pro Football Player Facts Needed for 'Daily Show' Breaking Down the Options Breaking Down the Options Senate Committee Passes Cap-and-Trade Obama Meeting at the Hill FSA Stresses Importance to Vote for County Committee Hearing Held on Chief Ag Trade Negotiator Nominee USDA Offering Sessions of Food Commodity Contracting Harvest Lingers in the Midwest Deere Offers 5D-5M Series Utility Tractors Export Business Quiet This Week Challenges Lay Ahead for Senate Health Bill Climate Bill Alternatives Are Being Considered New Pesticide Labeling Proposed by EPA Biodiesel Tax Credit Backed by Farm Groups Saturday Vote on Health Care Expected in House Animal Agriculture Wins in Ohio Animal Agriculture Wins in Ohio African Swine Fever Reason for Russian Ban African Swine Fever Reason for Russian Ban The Buzz: Farm Futures Crop Report Estimates Wild Hectic Day on the Markets Stallman Against Health Care Act Still A Ways to Go Before Health Care Reform Senate Committee Begins Markup of Climate Bill WTO's Lamy Presents Overview of Climate Crisis Beginning Farmer and Rancher Education Grants Awarded Taiwan Opens Markets to U.S. Beef Taiwan Opens Markets to U.S. Beef Issue 2 Victorious in Ohio Election Issue 2 Victorious in Ohio Election Atrazine Panel Convened by EPA Reversal of Trade Sends Money Flowing Back to the Commodities Ag Recovery? Don't Bet On It, Says Economist Profit Takers Come in Overnight after Monday's Rally Farm Bureau Petitions Supreme Court in Pesticide Case Issue 2 Vote in Ohio Has Arrived Issue 2 Vote in Ohio Has Arrived Climate Change Markup Boycotted by Republican Senators New Climate Change Title Being Developed Pig Genome Sequenced Pig Genome Sequenced RFA Chief Addresses World Conference Farming Technology Advances with Ag Leader, AutoFarm Alliance Markets Reverse Higher Will Markup of Climate Bill Happen Tuesday? Subcommittee Holds Advanced Biofuels Hearing Ethanol Industry Can Utilize Low Test Weight Corn Fertilizer Outlook Brighter, But Price Picture Cloudy Beef Group Criticizes EPA Analysis More Bad Video for Beef Industry Budget Deficits Could Sink Ag Programs Markets Give up Gains in End-of-the-Month Moves Next-Gen Biofuels Hampered by Credit Availability Weather is Hot Topic for Commodities Market Soybeans Again Lead Export Lineup Morocco Presents New Opportunity for U.S. Grain Sorghum Health Care Legislation Unveiled in House Senate Hears More Testimony on Climate Change Bill Ohio Votes Tuesday on Prop 2 New Ram HD Trucks Made for Towing U.S. Signs Nine Agreements with China Unprecedented Rainfall Continues Syngenta Donates to Farm Rescue, Feeding America China Re-Opens Market for Pork and Swine Uncertain Nose Count Remains for Public Option MOU to Support Energy Cooperation Program Signed in China Ag Subcommittee Examines Farm Bill Specialty Crop Provisions Fertilizer Contracting Could Help, But Watch the Fine Print Farmers Could Cut Fertilizer Use Again This Fall Confusing and Frustrating Day Across Board for Markets New Report Focuses on Rural Health Care House Floor Debate on Health Care Could Come Next Week Fairness of Climate Legislation Raised During Hearing Gillibrand Authoring E. Coli Eraadication Act Durbin Introduces Bill to Increase FDA Oversight Money Flow Hurts Markets Despite Delayed Harvest Dollar Rebound Hit Markets on Monday Details of Senate Climate Change Bill Unveiled Senate Leadership Decides to Include Public Option in Health Care Bill U.S. Blocks Request for WTO Panel Changes Needed in DOE Loan Guarantee Program International Assistance for the Philippines Money Leaves the Grain Market Farm Futures Summit is Jan. 6-7 Challenging Weather and Yield Impact Discussed on This Week in AgriBusiness. Senate Schedules Climate Change Hearing Public Option Remains Big Roadblock for Health Care Reform WTO Negotiations Update Offered House Cap-and-Trade Numbers Quantified by Report RFA Responds to Faulty Carbon Claims NPPC Asks Congress' Help for Pork Industry Have MIG Will Travel Ranger 225 Enclosed Case Welder Sparks to Life Miller Creates a 40-foot Extension to the Work Area Easier Pulls on Swisher's Log Splitters Shuttle Shift Available on Kioti DS Terex Track Delivers the Goods LS Hits the U.S. Market with New Line of Compact Utility Tractors Loss of Outside Market Support Brings Down Corn Ag Secretary Previews Priorities for Reauthorization of Child Nutrition Act Chinese President Calls for Improved Cooperation on Climate More Questions about Quality of Harvest Rather than Volume U.S. Customers Asking About Corn Quality Anti-Trust Exemption for Insurance Companies Stripped in Health Bill Biofuel Facilities Toured by USDA Deputy Milk Marketing Changes Recommended by USDA U.S. Ready to Talk Commerce & Trade with China Groups Want Key Trade Position Filled The Buzz: Grain Markets Flip A Coin A Lot of Mixed Signals Coming from Outside World They're Back! China Buys More Beans House Agriculture Committee Approves Legislation Strengthening Derivatives Regulation Economist Says There Is Hope on Horizon for Pork Industry. Economist Says There Is Hope on Horizon for Pork Industry. FDA to Develop Standard Labeling Practices House Could be Close to Passing Health Care Reform USDA Budget Targeted For Change Interior's Salazar Moving on Nation's Oil Shale Reserves We May Have Seen High for Corn and Soybeans DCP and ACRE Numbers Reported Lamy Says it's Time for Serious Acceleration Meetings Scheduled to Discuss Interstate Shipments by Small Firms R-CALF USA Sets Trade Complaint Benchmark NCGA Survey Provides Strong Results Midwest Weather Affects the Dow on Wall Street Harvest Continues to Be Delayed by Wet Weather Newspaper Association Asks for Reporting Accuracy NAFTA Leaders Meet Wheat Summit Held in Kansas City Vilsack to Travel to Philippines and China Senate Health Care Reform Deliberations Continue Film Introduces Family Farming to Consumers Hogs from Minnesota State Fair Confirmed to Have H1N1 A Lot of Money is Flowing Today No Animal Connection Yet in Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Cases No Animal Connection Yet in Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Cases Clean Water Act Enforcement Plan Released by EPA Waterways Council Wants Funding for Locks and Dams Clearer Picture of H1N1 Influenza Reported Commodities Performed Well and Traders Decide to Take Some Profits Buyers Step Up For Beans Preweekend Harvest Pressure Hits the Markets Rally for Ohio's Issue 2 Draws Large Group of Supporters Over-the-Counter Act Passes Hurdle CBO Director Says Cap-and-Trade Will Slow Economy NCGA Reacts to USA Today Editorial DOJ Approves JBS Purchase of Pilgrim's Pride Bill Gates Addresses World Food Prize Event. Soybean Farmers Contribute to World Food Prize Most Crops Don't Qualify for DCP Payments Study Shows Biodiesel Has High Energy Balance Appropriation Debate Continues in Senate Plant Research Grants Released The Buzz: Weather + Wall Street = Rally Vilsack Addresses Disparity in Rural Health Care U.S.-Brazil Organizations Sign Poultry Agreement Senate Finance Committee Passes Health Care Bill Does Surprise Endorsement Boost Climate Change Chances? Pork and Beef Exports Still Lagging Compared to 2008 California Signs Energy Agreement with Fed Government Vilsack, Miller Call for Strong State Role in Proposed Consumer Legislation Gradual Increase is Seen in Dairy Exports Health Bill Vote Expected in Senate Finance Committee Cases of H1N1 Are Rising Call for More Administration Involvement on Climate Change Selling Raw Milk Has Risks Prices Bouncing Back After Overnight Profit Taking Grain Prices Rocket Higher Dispute Panel to Investigation EU's Poultry Restrictions Dispute Panel to Investigation EU's Poultry Restrictions Peterson Introduces Derivatives Discussion Draft CBO Says Lawsuit Reform Would Cut Health Costs New Research Challenges California's LFCS. Prices for Electricity are Declining The BUZZ: Wet, Cold Weather Heats Up the Market No Real Surprises in USDA Report Weather, USDA One-Two Punch for Markets EPA Begins New Scientific Evaluation of Atrazine NIFA Launched by Ag Secretary Rural Health Care Coverage Report Issued DOJ Under Pressure to Deny Acquisition of Pilgrim's Pride by JBS CRP Contracts Reported Guaranteed and Direct Loan Programs Now Available NCBA and R-Calf React to Canadian Complaint Company Sequences Canola Genome Money Flow is Primary Factor Driving Markets Higher Chinese Soybean Buying Slows Funding for NBAF Included by Conference Committee Finance Committee Receives CBO Report on Health Care Bill Cadillac Health Plans a Problem DCP and ACRE Sign-up Begins Strong Sign-up for CSP Program House Subcommittee Reviews Farm Bill Implementation WTO Panel to Consider Canadian Complaint Arlan Suderman Talks Markets with Ag Network Government Studying Own Carbon Footprint IEA Sets Goals for Clean Air Committee Health Care Vote Delayed Genetic Link Found Between Higher Milk Production and Reduced Fertility Foreign Holdings of Agricultural Land Increase Egg Producers Firing Back at Animal Rights Activists Secretary Reacts to Extreme Case of E. coli Bryce Knorr Talks about Factors Impacting Markets Canadian Pork Council Distributing Traceability Ear Tags Dairy Funding is Causing Some Controversy Dairy Funding is Causing Some Controversy Corporations Backing Climate Change Bill ARA Has New President and CEO Wind Energy is Spreading NCGA Members Debut Sustainable Agriculture Video BIO Requests Changes to Cap-and-Trade Legislation New Food Safety Regulations for Produce Being Developed ILUC Report Released by GAO World Climate Change Discussions Going Slow Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill Has Another Ag Group Against It Ethanol Production Sets New Record All Parties Should be Held Responsible in Animal Cruelty Cases This Week Marks Release of H1N1 Vaccine IFPRI Report Affixes Numbers to Climate Change Bryce Knorr Discusses Markets California Water Crisis Gets Federal Attention U.S. Soybean Farmer-Leaders Sign Global Agreement with Uruguay Some Small Grains Producers Will Be Resurveyed Increased Soybean Purchase Intentions by Taiwan Program to Support Producers Proposed by NASDA Program to Support Producers Proposed by NASDA More Dairy Herds Being Removed Farms, Small Businesses Exempt from New EPA Regulations Senate Finance Committee to Finalize Health Care Plan Conflict, Corruption Greatest Causes of Hunger Cover story: Precision Payback Insights on Brazilian Ag Senate Begins Work on Climate Change Bill How to Write a Manure Contract Health Care Reform Bill is Moving Forward in Senate Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill Receives Mixed Reviews Cabinet Members Studying Energy Transmission House Committee Studies Farm Bill's Research Title USDA Program Delivery to be Studied Ag Appropriations Bill Passage is Likely Grain Storage has Value Senators to Introduce Global Warming Legislation Grassley Wants H-1B Program Cleaned Up Technology was Main Point of NCGA Comments to EPA DOE Puts More Funding into Cobs as Fuel The Buzz: USDA, weather and outside markets confuse traders Chinese File Another Trade Complaint Lamy Encourages World Trade Japanese Confidence in U.S. Beef Has Increased Sorghum Checkoff Hosting Team from Saudi Arabia Update on Algae Research Reported Chinese Corn Production Lower than Last Year Appropriations Agreement Hailed by Top Leaders VeraSun Facility Purchase Completed Campaign Begins for Ohio Animal Care WTO Ag Committee Meets AFBF Urges Passage of Trade Pacts Wireless Control For Tree Shearing Bulldog 140 is New From Lincoln Westendorf Unveils Freedom Mount Loaders Valley 5000 Series Aimed at Small Field Operators Russia Close to Self-Sufficiency in Poultry Electronic Beam Technology Meeting Requested by AMI EU Visit to U.S. Sponsored by Soy Checkoff May Help Ensure Market Access Jackson Admits EPA Uncertain About Land Use Change A Variety of Grants Issued by USDA R-CALF USA Wants JBS S.A. Purchase Denied Compact Impact Sprinkler Concerns About EPA Proposed RFS Rule Outlined by RFA New Initative for Mississippi River Basin Headed Up by NRCS New Initiative to Fund Projects in 12 States in Mississippi River Basin More Bean Sales to China This Week House is Willing to Wait on Senate Finance Health Bill E-Verify Program Still Alive NPPC-AFBF Support Siddiqui Nomination Michelin Offers Harvest-Time Bounty on High-Performance Ag Radial Tires Summit Discusses Climate Change NFU Seeks Support for Energy Amendments The Buzz: The Boy Who Cried Wolf? House Looking for Bipartisan Approach to Health Care Comments on Outer Continental Shelf are being Reviewed Harkin Amendment Would Prevent Funding for Indirect Land Use Change Theories Ongoing Verification of RFS Compliance Could be Costly Borrowing and Spending Won't Lead to Healthy Economy Chinese Talks to Continue Road Map Laid Out for Doha Round of Trade Talks President Appoints Chief Agricultural Negotiator Time Growing Short to Comment on RFS G20 Challenged to Support Negotiations East Coast Food Production Being Researched 25X'25 Focusing on Cap and Trade Senate Finance Committee Ready To Mark Up Health Bill Agriculture Saluted And Participation Urged In Safety Programs For Hillside Farming Shell Offers Energy Efficient Hydraulic Fluid ARS Issues Report on Feeding WDGS to Cattle Paper Recognizes Possible GM Role in Wheat Production New Fuel Compatibility Bill Sought in Senate Climate Change Bill Debate Picks Up Worksaver Adds New Tine Grapple Healthy Landscapes Through Ranching Promoted by Coalition College Students Participating in Telling the Story of Agriculture Growing Oilseeds Along Roadsides For Fuel Production Field Scouting Supported by Multi-State SCN Research Reaction to Senate Health Care Bill is Widely Varried House Ag Committee Hears Over-The-Counter Testimony RMA Agreements Will Help Underserved Producers Monsanto Company Announces Approach to Chemistry to help U.S. Farmers Manage Risk Bobcat Offers New M Series Congress Continues to Debate Costs of Cap and Trade New Senate Chair Addresses Cattlemen New Senate Chair Addresses Cattlemen JBS S.A. to Hold Most of Pilgrim's Pride Stock JBS S.A. to Hold Most of Pilgrim's Pride Stock JBS S.A. to Hold Most of Pilgrim's Pride Stock JBS S.A. to Hold Most of Pilgrim's Pride Stock Chinese Delegation Visits Soybean Producers Belgian Dairy Farmers Dump Milk Belgian Dairy Farmers Dump Milk New Fuel Mileage Standards Proposed by Administration Development Grants for Rural Economy Announced Senate Finance Committee Unveils Health Care Bill FSIS Publishing Interstate Shipment Rules DOI Announces Climate Change Council RFS Letter Writing Campaign Pushed by ASA RFA Wants RFS Rules Revisited Report Quantifies Problems with Cross-border Trucking Program USDA Launches Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Program Relief for Dairy Industry Supported by NFU Relief for Dairy Industry Supported by NFU Vaccines for 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus Approved by FDA The Buzz: Can The Frost Rally Last? The Buzz: Can The Frost Rally Last? USGC Announces Dorr as New President and CEO Obama Asks Wall Street To Embrace Financial Reform Health Care Bill Moving Through Senate Finance Committee Applications Available for New Disaster Program Soybean Prices Improved by Biodiesel U.S.-Mexican Truckers Debate Continues China Launches Investigation On Chicken Imports Who Knows What Legislation will be Next? Reauthorization Deadline Approaching for Nutrition Programs More Forest Protection Funds are Released Advisory Committee Members for Beginning Farmers Program Needed Rhino Hay Rake Deep Tillage and Residue Control: One Tool New GFX Row Cleaner Sports Independent Suspension Summers Rolling Chopper Smooths Soil Turn Round Bales Into Cash Nobel Laureate, Father of 'Green Revolution' Passes Nobel Laureate, Father of 'Green Revolution' Passes The Buzz: Will Big Crops Get Bigger? AGCO Extends Motor Oil Rebate Export Sales Solid This Week Vilsack Discusses Preparations for H1N1 Vilsack Discusses Preparations for H1N1 More Positive Reaction for Change on Senate Ag Committee FSA Announces Changes to LIP FSA Announces Changes to LIP FSA Announces Changes to LIP Cuba Opening Up a Little More CFTC Pitches Cap-and-Trade Regulation Authority New Senate Ag and Health Chairs Announced Health Care Plan will be Marked Up by Senate Finance Committee Groups Request Denial of NBAF Funding Denial of Funding of NBAF Requested Global Warming Explored by Senate Ag Committee Punke Nominated to Represent U.S. at WTO Food Safety Working Group Unveils New Web Site Harkin, Lincoln Moving to New Chairs Senate Ag Leadership Change Likely USDA Offers to Mediate Between Soybean Groups Hunger Prevention Important to Supporting Education Congress Takes Up Health Care Debate Quickly Obama to Give National Address on Health Care Wheat Growers Change Greenhouse Gas Regulation Policy Published Report on Climate Change Questioned Corn Farmers May Slow Sales Road to CFTC Reform Goes through the Farm Senator Calling for Farm Relief Euro Commission Rejects Dairy Plea Euro Commission Rejects Dairy Plea Most Farms Would Be Worse Off Under Waxman-Markey Misconceptions About H1N1 Remain in Chinese Marketplace Global Warming Hearing Scheduled by Ag Committee Labeling Produce with Tattoos Has Additional Benefits Canadian Herds Find H1N1 Canadian Herds Find H1N1 Canadian Herds Find H1N1 JBS S.A. Makes Offer for Pilgrim's Pride JBS S.A. Makes Offer for Pilgrim's Pride JBS S.A. Makes Offer for Pilgrim's Pride JBS S.A. Makes Offer for Pilgrim's Pride Grassley Gives Officials First-Hand Look at Farming DOT Issues Report on Mexican Truck Safety More Than 200 Projects Funded in Last 100 Days Value-Added Grant Applications Being Accepted by Rural Development Pork Purchases Approved by USDA Strong Soybean Sales See More Interest from China REAP Grants are Being Released Drying Grain Efficiently With Propane Efficient Grain Drying With Propane Expanding Biofuels Role Explored Top End Beef to EU is Great Opportunity for U.S. Top End Beef to EU is Great Opportunity for U.S. Top End Beef to EU is Great Opportunity for U.S. New Front-end Loader From Buhler The Buzz: Outside Markets Have Big Influence Cap and Trade Study Commissioned by NCGA Health Care, Kennedy Overshadowing Climate Change in Senate Obama Needs to Focus on Trade Country of Origin Labeling of Fuel Requested by Growth Energy Farmers Could Plant More Corn, Less Soybeans Next Year Southern Leadership of Senate Ag Committee Could Change Agenda Cotton Case Ruling by WTO Sets Sanctions Against U.S. First Payments Made in Biomass Crop Assistance Program Rural Housing Repair Grants Awarded By Rural Development Twenty More 'What if' Questions Fistful of Dollars: Exclusive Storage Study Talking 'The Talk' Weigh Your Storage Options Ten Years After Mad Cow: How Europe Solved its Food Crisis Investing in Brazil: Exchange Rate Trend is Key Sign up for Farm Futures Management Summit Two New Box Spreaders in New Holland Line New Web Site Offers Up Ethanol Information Information Campaign Begun by Growth Energy Parasite Infection Make Hog Vaccines Less Effective Parasite Infection Make Hog Vaccines Less Effective High Approval of President's Energy Policy According to Poll FAS Tour This Week Hearing on Biofuels Set by Senate Ag Committee Sukup Introduces QuadraTouch Internet Funding Requests Reported SprayIT Calculator Makes Tip Selection Easy Stalks, Hay and Straw Make Fodder for the BR7090 The Buzz: Buyers Seek Beans Ahead of Frost Threat An Important Factor in Big Yield Prediction is USDA Ear Counts OMB Updates Administration's Economic Forecast FAS Launches Updated Trade Database Grants Upcoming for Value Added Commodities R-CALF USA Questions Canadian Cattle Entry into U.S. R-CALF USA Questions Canadian Cattle Entry into U.S. R-CALF USA Questions Canadian Cattle Entry into U.S. Several States Are Having Problems with TB Several States Are Having Problems with TB Several States Are Having Problems with TB Co-ops Are Possible Health Care Option Bean Sales Huge, Wheat Surprises Committee Assignments Could Change as Result of Kennedy's Death. Health Care Deal in Wake of August Recess is Possible Funding Released for Alternative Fuel Vehicles Estimated CSP Payment Ranges Issued by NRCS Feeding the Poor Starts in Rural Populations Forest Improvement Funds Released USDA Seeks Comments on Trade Adjustment Assistance Program Land Use Meeting: More Questions Than Answers Estimates Released for H1N1 Human Infection Scenario USDA Forming Dairy Advisory Committee USDA Forming Dairy Advisory Committee USDA Forming Dairy Advisory Committee Commission Formed on Animal Well-being Commission Formed on Animal Well-being Commission Formed on Animal Well-being Report Questions Atrazine Levels in Water Cap and Trade Discussion Held at White House Colony Collapse Disorder Breakthrough Electrical Generation Sources Shift Chili Reports H1N1 in Turkeys Reduced Domestic Fuel Production Projected Food Story in TIME a Bit One-Sided Food Story in TIME a Bit One-Sided Food Story in TIME a Bit One-Sided Cattle on Feed Numbers Surprising Cattle on Feed Numbers Surprising Cattle on Feed Numbers Surprising Natural Resources Focus of Internet Tool Phone Conference Held on Health Care Reform Immigration Could Move as Amendments Costs-Benefits of Climate Change to Fertilizer Released 25X'25 to Release Analysis of Cap-and-Trade Cap-and-Trade Analysis from 25x'25 Farrowing Down But Production Could Be New Record Farrowing Down But Production Could Be New Record Farrowing Down But Production Could Be New Record Melamine Recall Report Released New CAST Issue Paper Examines Cloned and Transgenic Animals New CAST Issue Paper Examines Cloned and Transgenic Animals CRP Will be Discussed at Public Meetings Senators Encourage Insurance Process Improvements RMA Reminded of Insurance Process Improvements Some Movement on Health Care Legislation Possible Possible Movement on Health Care Reform Law Needs to Cover Marketplace Without Exception Says CFTC Chairman More Calls for Government Help in Pork Sector More Calls for Government Help in Pork Sector More Calls for Government Help in Pork Sector Kinze Launches Planter Rebate Program Corn, Soybean Sales Strong Mexico Looking for FTA with Brazil Veterinary Association Questions Pew Report Pew Report Questioned by Veterinary Association Crop Insurance Deadline Comes With Strong Incentives Strong Incentives As Crop Insurance Deadline Looms Iowa State Fair Hosts Administration's Rural Tour Farm Notes Sale Underway Internet Auction of Farm Loans Wind Energy Has Many Potential Positives Huge Job Potential in Wind Energy New Tractor Builds on Winning Strategy 7000 Series Tractors Get New Model Powering Up for Forage Productivity Sprayer Aims for Bigger Market New Windrower Lineup Launched for 2010 Guidance Products Additions Offered Boosting Sprayer Productivity Anhydrous Hookup Offers 'No Hands' Convenience Colombia Official Working on Trade Deal Deere Launches New Tractors and Equipment On Farm Storage Loans Now Available FSA Has Applications for On Farm Storage Loans Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble Drought Causes Problems for Argentina Beef Industry Drought Causes Problems for Argentina Beef Industry Drought Causes Problems for Argentina Beef Industry ARRA Dollars to Protect Natural Resources USDA Releases ARRA Dollars for Forest Service Rural Broadband Study Completed Study Completed on Rural Broadband Health Care Option Being Debated Uncertain Future for Public Option in Health Care Legislation Petition to Activate God Squad to Be Presented Water Crisis Prompts Groups to Ask for Pump Exemptions The Buzz: Where's the Bottom? Soy Transportation Coalition Publishes Semi Weight Analysis Semi Weight Analysis Published by Soy Transportation Coalition NPPC Asks for Industry Help NPPC Asks for Industry Help NPPC Asks for Industry Help Pork Sector Asks USDA for Help Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Administration Changes Views of Some Health Care Issues Rural Tour Focuses on Education Education Focus of Rural Tour Anti-Cap-And-Trade Rallies Begin Tuesday Letter Supporting Antibiotics Use Sent to Obama Administration New Look for FarmFutures.com ACRE Payments Ranked by States Most Likely to Receive Pushing Climate Change to Next Year Proposed by Senators New Direction Outlined by Ag Secretary for Forest Service FAS Wants Comments on USDA's Facility Guarantee Program Human, Animal Health Could be Promoted by Virus Enzymes The Buzz: Weather Watch Begins After USDA Report Leave a Clean Path Kuhn Knight Has New Spreader Case IH Offers Small Square Baler Topcon Releases AES-25 for Sub-inch Accuracy Quick Change Artist from Kuhn Mixed Report on Meat Exports House Legislation Exempts Agriculture from Estate Tax Applications Accepted Starting Monday for Farm Storage Loan Program Organizations Release Study of Clean Energy Bill Impact Coarse Grains and Ethanol Will Contribute to Profitability Bean Sales Remain Strong Pork Producers Pleased with Korean Move Future of Ethanol Depends of Increased Blending Limit Additional Pork Dollars Denied Cap and Trade Discussed in Iceland Australian Report Reflects Light on Beef Markets President Expects End of Year Plan for Immigration Blend Your Own Ethanol Campaign Launched 'United We Serve' Initiative Focuses on Volunteerism and Community Service Rural Health Care Report Released The Buzz: Weather Watch Begins After USDA Report Alliance Backs Resolution to Mexico Trucking Dispute ACRE Looking Attractive Due to Low Prices Crude Firms Despite Another Increase In Supplies APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork Growth Energy Road Map Announced Retooled Loan Assistance Launched by USDA Ban on Pork Lifted by South Korea Senators Ask for RFS-2 Implementation Secretary Promoted Biochar at Conference Emergency H1N1 Plan Developed by APHIS Ethanol Will Get Cleaner and Greener Delays in Crop Progress Continue Fed Watch Stymies Wall Street Rally Mexican Trucking, Immigration Discussed at North American Leaders Conference More Pumping Stations Would Be Made Available Under Legislation Simplification and Extension of Biodiesel Tax Proposed Enforcement Actions Would Happen Faster Under FDA Proposal Energy Research Centers Being Funded Lifecycle Analysis Issues Clouded by EPA Report Still Time to Sign Up for ACRE Corn Market Hopes for USDA's Help Wheat Market: Try A Facebook Page? Beans Keep Flexing Muscles Planning for New Business Ventures Fall Ammonia Prices Shoot Higher Cellulosic E85 Shown to Outshine Other Alternatives Minnesota Turkey Flock Has H7N9 Avian Flu Lowest Hog Prices Seen in Two Years Conditions Could Make August Crop Forecast Difficult to Predict Assistance for Pork Producers Requested by Governors Competition in Ag Industry Focus of USDA-DOJ Joint Workshops Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced Inaugural Class elected to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame Inaugural Class elected to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame Partnerships: Help When Help is Needed The Buzz: Weather Rules Many Helped by Senate Ag Appropriations Bill WHO Estimates Two Billion People will Have H1N1 Influenza National Sign-Up For New Conservation Stewardship Program Announced Bean Basis Rides Roller Coaster USDA Likely to Raise Corn and Soybean Production Estimates Chinese Still Buying Old Crop Beans The Buzz: Weather Rules Brazil Climate Change Seen First-Hand Food Sustainability Addressed by Vilsack at African Conference Report Shows Drop in Ag Land Values CWT Announces Latest Herd Retirement Results Online Spreadsheets for Equipment Decision-Making Tariff Rate Quota is Still Being Reviewed by USDA Senate Approves Ag Spending Bill Proposed Label Rule for Biobased Products Published Ethanol and Corn Prices Affected by Blend Wall House Republicans Want More Ag Committee Hearings on Climate Change Legislation Oregon Implements B2 Biodiesel Requirement WTO's Lamy Says Conclusion Needed Crude Ignores Supplies, Focus on Dollar How High-Profit Farmers Handle Debt Rural Economic Development Grants Are Available Ag Census Information Provided by ZIP Code Influenza Recommendations Issued by Swine Vets Floor Vote Next Step for Health Care Reform More Work Needed on Food Safety Rising Tide of Risk Lifts All Boats Russia Cutting Back on Meat and Poultry Imports Four Tips Before You Re-Tool Equipment Lineup Increased Meat Recall Authority for USDA Introduced WTO Investigating U.S. Poultry Import Rules Derivatives Legislation Outline Completed U.S. Travels to Kenya for Trade and Economic Forum Health Care Reform Continues in House and Senate Positive Responses to Dairy Support Payments Estate Planning: Heirs at Odds Corn Prices Bounce, But How High? Bean Bull Bounces Back Wheat Builds Base, But for What End? Advisory Board Helps Steer Decisions Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports Ethanol Production Efficiency Improved Sign-Up Begins for Biomass Support Program Rural Businesses Receive Billions in Assistance Blue Dog Agreement Defended by Speaker Fertilizer Prices Edge Higher Hike in Milk Price Supports Urged by Senators Wind Investments Encourage by New Legislation Conference Scheduled for Food Safety Next Year Export Sales Good All Around Exports Help Boost Corn Basis Administration Backs Brazil Tariff Congress Moving Forward on Health Care Reform International Outreach Programs for Science and Education House Shoots Down Food Safety Bill The Buzz: Watch out for Washington The Buzz: Watch out for Washington Push Made by Anti-Ethanol Groups H1N1 Virus Policy Changed by CFIA Ag Negotiations Key to Completing Doha Round House Subcommittee Holds Dairy Hearing Funding Made Available for Wetlands Program Grassley Looks for Clarification of President's Stance on Ethanol Tariff Huge Build in Crude Oil Stocks Sinks Energy Trade Discussion of Implementation of NAIS Requested by State Officials GAO Questions Kansas Research Site Mexican Market Opens for U.S. Sorghum Higher Ethanol Blends Supported by Senators Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Salazar Says Confidence is Returning Lawsuit to Stop Animal ID Dismissed Efforts of U.S. Grains Council Pour Millions into U.S. Agriculture Blue Dogs Have Problems With Proposed Health Plan USDA Asked to Update Climate Study R-CALF Wants Changes for COOL Rule Swine Vets to Provide Recommendations on H1N1 Corn Market Searches for Early Low Worries Keep Wheat Rally Under Wraps Old Crop Soybean Demand Stays Strong Ammonia Prices Surge Higher at the Gulf Natural Gas Bill Up for Consideration EPA Has Until December to Rule on 15% Ethanol Senate Taking Time Before Voting on Health Care Projections Are for Fewer Cattle Placed on Feed During June Biofuel Feedstock Projects Receive Funding Alliance Formed to Urge Legislators to Fix Trade Dispute CFTC Panel Recommends Incremental Modifications to Wheat Contracts Peterson Urged to Assert Ag Jurisdiction on Food Safety Legislation Several Groups Testified Against Clean Water Restoration Act Corn Basis Doesn't Crack On Rally Farm Loan Restructuring Options Report Released WHO Pushing Nations to Plan for H1N1 Virus Hearing on Climate Change Provides Lots of Viewpoints Corn, Soybeans Sales Are Strong Grains Council Receives World Food Demand Report Canadian Listeriosis Outbreak Report Released Analysis Shows Reversal for Cow-Calf, Stocker Operations NFU Outlines Climate Change Priorities FSIS Asked for Info by AAMP Biofuels Receiving Funds from Farm Bill Crop Insurance Changes Requested by Ag Chairs U.S. Moves to Block China's Panel Request Cap and Trade Study Released August Crop Report Will Include New Information Grassley Voices Concern for Role of USTR Crude Oil Holds Firm on Another Drop in Supplies Plenty of Opinions on Dealing with Dairy Crisis USGC Directors Provide Trade Outlook NPPC Concerned About Possible Canadian Pork Bailout Outside Markets Shift Back to Brighter Tone Rural Perspective on Public Health Care Clock is Ticking to Sign Up for ACRE India Makes Economic Recovery A Goal Drudge Report Failed to Get Facts Straight Budget Measures Take Center Stage for NPB Korean Grain Buying Leaders Meet with U.S. Corn Suppliers House Facing Problems With Health Care Food Safety Standards Need to Address Public Health Benefits Animal Health Association Hosts TB Discussion WHO Looking for H1N1 Spread Beans Brace for Chinese Selling Corn Market Set to Play Waiting Game Wheat Consolidation Boosts Bulls Confidence Food Safety Bill Triggers Fight Final Push for Higher Ethanol Blend Made by Growth Energy and NAEDA Ammonia Prices Threaten Rebound, Potash Retreats Request for Referendum of Soybean Checkoff Falls Far Short Direct Loans Available to Farmers and Producers Rural Tour Stops at Dairy Rally House Ag Committee Holds Food Safety Hearing USDA Civil Rights Deputy Named ARRA Issues More Money for Water Improvement Climate Bill Will Have Different Consequences for Different Ag Areas and Industries Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response Guidelines Released Lamy Says Keeping Trade Open Important for Recovery Bargain Hunters Shop For Exports The Buzz: Funds and Outside Markets Still Matter Scabby Wheat Popping Up All Over Stallman Calls Climate Bill a 'Fool's Errand' Disease Outbreak Prevention Discussed by Government and Industry Stakeholders FAPRI Study on H.R. 2454 Cited at Senate Committee Meeting Diesel Prices Staying Stubbornly Strong WHO Declares H1N1 Unstoppable Wheat, Oats and Barley Won't Have Counter-Cyclical Payments Inflation Fears Bubble Back to Surface H1N1 Could Return Aggressively this Fall Failure to Ratify U.S.-Colombian Agreement Could Cost Producers Millions Pork-Beef Exports Mixed Bag Cuban Farm Export Limitations Overturned Hearing on Restricting Antibiotic Use in Livestock Held Wheat Tries to Turn the Corner House Committees Examine Over-The-Counter Derivatives Voters will Decide on Ohio Livestock Care Legislation CWT Sets Second Dairy Buyout Beans Try to Hold the Line USDA Deputy for Food Safety Chosen Corn Wonders If Party Is Over The Buzz: Weather, Exports Best Hopes for Rally Immigration Policies Coming Fast Ag Appropriations Bill Passes House Fertilizer Prices Fall In Line With Wholesale Market Timeframe Extended for Senate Climate Change Legislation FSA Administrator Post Filled Russia Urged to Lift Meat Bans Information Sharing Amendment Denied Recommendations on Immigration Reform Announced House Ag Subcommittee Asked to Provide Oversight for Bioenergy Program Change in Cap-and-Trade Tariff Pushed for in Senate. Lower Prices Fuel Export Sales Demand for Fertilizer Expected to Rebound Red-hot Corn Basis Tries to Coax Sales Signup Begins Monday for New Livestock Indemnity Program EU to Place Anti-Dumping Duties on U.S. Biodiesel Farmers Should See Cheaper Diesel Ahead Climate Change Testimony by Cabinet Members Hearings Announced by CFTC Two World Issues affect U.S.; EU USDA Announces Dairy Export Incentive Allocations Second Guessing Begins On Wall Street New Plan for Food Safety Unveiled New Immigration Enforcement Focuses on Employers Release of Food Safety Working Group Findings Tuesday Food Prices Keep Sliding Lower Paraguay Pushes Tougher Chemical Standards Meat, Poultry Producers Keep Cutting Back, but is it Enough? G8 Countries to Invest in Agriculture Ammonia Prices Tumble at the Gulf Lamy Opens Aid for Trade Review Health Product Withdrawal Standards Need to Be Checked If Things Play Out Right Potential for Ethanol Looks Good Latest Herd Retirement Round Finished by CWT Secretary Vilsack Announces Disaster Funding for Rural Development Programs Climate Change Set to Move Forward in Senate Fuel Savings Could Change Highway Weight Limits Vilsack Announces New Approach to Food Security National Disease Strategy Not NAIS Requested by R-CALF New Rules for CSP Almost Complete Corn Sales Boom Ahead of USDA Reports Cash Market Tries To Figure Next Basis Moves Michigan Taking Proactive Approach toward Livestock Standards Six Things You Should Know About Animal Activists Today Pencils Down! County Level Cash Rents Calculate Savings from Your Health Plan Calculate Savings from Your Health Plan July Bonus Feature Wall Street Rings In New Quarter on Upbeat Note Comment Period on RFS Extended by EPA Climate Bill's Tariff Provision Concerns President Obama Administration Filling State Posts Rising Gasoline Stocks into Holiday Could Signal a Top Cutting Energy Project Red Tape Goal of New Legislation Trade Mission for Corn-Fed Beef Wraps Up in Korea Obama Administration Launches Rural Tour Recovery Act Provides $4 Billion for Broadband Gray Wolves Agreement Reached USDA Economist Sees Soybean Acres Rising Ag Secretary Outlines Food Security Strategy The Buzz: Beans Still Have Bullish Flavor Aussie Tractorcade Gets Rolling Farmers in Paraguay in Fight over Crop Protection Products Bulls Hope Acreage Report will Turn Corn Tide More DDGS Headed North USDA Web Site Looks at Recovery Spending Australia on the Road to Big Wheat Crop Wheat Market Looks to Better Days Soybeans Face Critical Test Tuesday H1N1 Reactions Discussed in WTO Meeting Congress Still Working on Immigration Reform When Will House Vote on Climate Change? Fertilizer Markets are Quiet, Companies not so Much Climate Change Bill Has Different Levels of Support Corn Basis Firms on Tight Farmer Holding Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Backed by Ohio Lawmakers Soybean Sales Continue To Wind Down Climate Change Legislation Addressed by Rural America Solutions Group House Ag Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Farm Bill Implementation Climate Change Bill Won't Have Farm Bureau Support Energy Rally Stumbles On Rising Tide of Gasoline Upward Spending Trend Shown in Appropriation Bills Agreement on Energy Bill Reached by Peterson, Waxman Farm Futures See Corn Acres Down 3% Excessive Wheat Speculation Investigation Results Released Family Farm Visit for EPA Officials Energy Secretary Voices Support of Ethanol USDA Recovery Act Web Mapping Tool Adding HUD Data CBO Releases Cost Analysis of Climate Change Wall Street Rally Takes a Breather Review of International Marketing Efforts Sought by Soybean Checkoff Officials Search for Cause of Contamination Small Swine Production Cuts Being Made Forward Movement on Doha Talks Commodity Market Investigation Asked for by NFU Acre Worries Surface For Soybeans FY2010 Ag Appropriations Bill Passes House Ag Committee Wheat Presses Lows on Harvest Pressure Clashing Policies Could Hurt Biofuels Development President Delaying South Korea Free Trade Deal Bearish Turn Rattles Corn Market Crapo Intends to Stand in Way of Clean Water Act Meatpacker is Under Investigation in Corruption Case Food Safety 'Overkill' Battled by Ag Groups Congress Moving on Two Threats to Agriculture Grassley Speaks to International Trade Association New Financial Regulations Proposed by President Budget Squeeze Hits Farmland Preservation New Strain of H1N1 Found in Brazil Clean Water Bill Headed for Markup Today Forest Service Chief Named Iowa State Economist Issues Biofuels Warning Animal ID Recommendations to Wait for Listening Sessions Recovery Act Funds for Rural Water Projects Announced Equivalency Organic Agreement with Canada Announced The Buzz: Marketing Opportunities Still Exist For Crops Corn Sales Healthy, China Still Buying Beans Land Values Holding Up, and Investors are Returning Potash Prices Finally Start to Crack - for Some Time Running Out for Committee Markup of Climate Change Bill Energy Prices Choppy After Report H1N1 Herd in Canada Culled Growing Support for Biodiesel Chambliss and Klobuchar Introduce Food Safety Bill Climate Change Report Looks at Ag Cellulosic Ethanol Being Sold by Shell Ag Secretary Discusses Renewable Energy Opportunities at Western Governors Conference Marketing and Regulatory Programs Deputy Under Secretary Named Growth Energy Absorbs Another Ethanol Group Farm Interest Rates Are on the Rise Deadline to Report 2009 Planted Acres Approaching Fast Virus Worries Not Only Reason for Pork Bans AMI Study Shows Big Contribution to U.S. Economy from Meat and Poultry Industry Several Countries Continue to Refuse Pork from U.S Nominations Open for FSA County Committee Biomass Utilization and Wood-to-Energy Grants Clean Water Restoration Act Opposed by Farm Bureau Climate and Energy Legislation Still Focus of Ag Groups Wheat Rally Evaporates As Quickly As It Came Corn Lacks Story Line to Drive Prices Higher For Now Congress Using Money as Leverage to Make NAIS Mandatory Stronger Crush Supports Soybeans 2009 World Food Prize Awarded to Ethiopian Scientist House Committee Passes Food Processors Fee Ag Committee Discusses Waxman-Markey Bill Pandemic Status Officially Reached by H1N1 Virus Pork and Beef Export Numbers Released by USMEF Economic Slowdown Not Stopping Grain Demand Report Projects Dramatic Drop In Farm Income Funding Announced for Disaster Relief Stimulus Hearing Held by Ag Subcommittee Missouri Crowd Opposed to Mandatory NAIS EPA Holds Hearing on Indirect Land Use Decision on Chemical Application Permitting Postponed for Two Years Kirk Calls Cairns Meeting Productive Kirk Calls Cairns Meeting Productive More Anti-Competitive Suits Prosecuted will Help GIPSA Credibility Broadband Access Critical to Keep Agriculture Competitive Obama's Biofuels Directive Met by USDA Leaders Balk at Obama Request for H1N1 Vaccine Funding Early Payments Going to Dairy Farmers Schedule for Fall International Food Shows Released Senate Leadership Wants Comprehensive Immigration Bill A Busy Week Lies Ahead for Biofuels FAS Reports on Colombian Biofuels Industry Colombia and Panama Could Be Large Buyers of U.S. Soy Products Iowa Senator Invites EPA Regulation Writers to the Farm Harkin Confident Senate Will Remove Indirect Land Use Amendments to Climate Change Legislation Suggested Corn Faces A Long, Cool Summer? USDA Report Is Next Soybean Milestone Wheat Traders Wonder If Top Is In Rural Development Loans More Than $1 Billion to Utilities and Co-Ops Marketing and Regulatory Deputy Undersecretary Named Ranking Member Wants More than Generalities on Cap and Trade Ammonia Prices Tumble Again on World Markets Dairy Crisis Ideas Delivered to Ag Secretary Agricultural And Ethanol Contract Trading Hours Are Being Expanded New Tool Helps Hog Farmers Develop Emergency Action Plan Derivatives, Speculation Focus of Senate Ag Hearing At Least Another Year Of Losses For Hog Producers Tight Supplies, Slow Planting Boost Basis in Eastern Midwest Pork Producers Face Hard Times Chinese Cancellations Trim Soybean Sales Jurisdiction Issues Remain on Clean Energy Bill Food Safety Overhaul Begun in House Leaders Will Discuss Future of Ethanol at Biofuels Financial Conference President Asks for Additional Funding to Fight Flu Pandemic All 50 States Have Confirmed H1N1 Cases Meetings Scheduled on Outer Continental Shelf Renewable Energy Two Conservation Programs Unveiled by Secretary Vilsack Supply Surprise Derails Energy Market USTR Kirk to Discuss Trade Issues in Russia This Week Growing Concern about Effects of Proposition 2 The Buzz: USDA Should Tighten Soybean Stocks Leadership Program Participants Announced by Pork Checkoff Congress Back in Washington for Next Month Crumbling Dollar Lights Bonfire on Wall Street See for Yourself Participants Chosen by USB Age Limits on Cattle Raised by Resolution Little Change in Prices by Increasing Ethanol Blend Milk Production Increases, Receipts Decrease Safe Feed/Safe Food Program Approved by Pork Committee Can Corn Crop Overcome Challenge Two Years in a Row? NASS Releases Annual Poultry Numbers Derivatives Hearing Set by Senate Ag Committee Swine Team from China is Training in U.S. Wheat Smashes More Barriers Beans, Beans, Who's Got The Beans? Corn Bulls Graze On Fund Money Funds Announced to Improve Infrastructure Across Rural America Specialty Crop Assistance Deadline Rally for Dairy Industry Being Held A Lot of Work Remains Ahead for Climate Legislation Plains to Benefit from Hot Weather OIE Moving Japan's BSE Status ARRA Funds Being Released for Energy Development 2009 Farm Progress Show Online Tickets Available Six More Listening Sites for NAIS Named Trade Included in U.S. Egypt Partnership Field Study Shows Benefits of No-Till Proposed Legislation Would Raise Costs for Food Production Facilities Mental Health Care Lacking in Rural Areas Biodiesel Gaining Support from Scientific Community Safety Materials for Biodiesel Jackson Says Wyoming Has Huge Potential for Energy Rural Mainstreet Index Expands for Third Straight Month Strategy for Rural American Broadband Released Morocco Beef Opens Doors for U.S. Grain NCGA Gearing Up for RFS Comment Period More Time Available to Comment on E15 Dairy Export Move Upsets EU Producers Soy Group Checks out Central, South American Markets USTR Says Trading Partners Must Play by Rules Too Climate Change Bill May Have Rough Road to House Floor Old Crop Soybean Rally Prepares for Final Battle Wheat Continues to Surprise Corn Bulls Wonder If Their Time Has Come Pork Group Supports Passage of Panama FTA Fertilizer Market Quiet, Industry Isn't McDonald's USA to Join in Study of Hen Housing Biggest Drop in Land Prices Since 1985 Congress Finally Trying to Complete Panama Trade Deal Renewable Fuel Standard Improvement Act Introduced in Senate Mandate for Renewable Power Kept in Energy Bill Web Site Launched by Food Safety Working Group Ag Committee Hears Testimony on LCFS Bill Seeks to Rein In Anti-Competitive Meat Packers Auditors for Dairy Cow 'Retirement' Start Work Budget for Beef Checkoff Spending Outlined for 2010 Another Big Weak for Bean Sales Claims Deadline Against VeraSun Approaching Increasing Ethanol Blend Will Create More Jobs Soybean Basis Surges on Old Crop Squeeze Housing Repair Grants Announced Could 2009 Be the Year of the Soybean? Biotech Has Environmental Benefits Russian Nears Pork Self Sufficiency Senate Finally Approves Gensler to Head CFTC Republican Group Condemns 'Energy Tax' Legislation H1N1 Vaccine Developed by South Korea Oil Rally Tries for Another Leg Up The Buzz: Time to Make New Crop Sales A Solution for Global Hunger? Proposed Increase in Fuel Economy, Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Announced By President Inflation: Back to the Future What U.S. Farmers Say About China Contagious Enthusiasm Fertilizer Dealers: Charging ahead Flex Lease Yields and Prices Forest Legacy Receives Funds Canadians Map H1N1 Virus Green Jobs Waiver Attacked Farm Interest Rates Cheap, But Could Be Cheaper Farm Bureau, Representatives Express Concern About Current Climate Legislation More Legislation Against Animal Agriculture H1N1 Flu is Focus of WHO Meeting Corn Could Pull Back Despite Bullish Outlook Legislation Introduced to Legalize Illegal Immigrant Farm Workers Food Safety: Lessons from Europe Rural Community Facility Projects Funded by ARRA Theory That Lab Accident is Source of H1N1 Dispelled Beware the Ides of May for Soybeans? USDA Report Doesn't Settle Wheat Debate Staff Additions Keep Coming at USDA Letter to Energy Committee Outlines Potential Problems with Climate Legislation Retail Fertilizer Prices Stabilize, Whole Markets Drift Lower Carbon Offsets Need to Be Controlled by USDA Chinese Agriculture Production Receives Funding from Government Another BSE Case Confirmed in Canada WHO Releases Flu Numbers Renewable Fuel Standard Improvement Act Introduced More U.S. Hormone-Free Beef Headed to Europe Rally Weakens Corn Basis Oil Prices Falter Despite Sharp Drop In Supplies Confirmation of Interior Nominee Blocked in Senate Cap and Trade Concerns Expressed by Ag Committee Ranking Member House Scales Back Emissions Bill Provisions H1N1 May Have Been Caused by Human Error U.S., Canada, Australia to Collaborate on Synchronized Biotech Introduction in Wheat Soy Demand to Stay Firm Over 100,000 Dairy Cows and 2 Billion Pounds of Milk Will Be Removed Ag Secretary Says Prevention is Key to Food Safety Deputy Undersecretary, CFO Appointed at USDA Mexican Pork Bans Lifted Grains Council Asserts That Supply is Ample to Meet World Demand Land Use Changes to Greenhouse Gas Continue to be Problematic Food and Nutrition Service Administrator Announced Senate Hears Testimony from EPA Administrator SPECIAL REPORT: Farm Futures Exclusive with Ag Secretary The Buzz: USDA Reports, Planting Delays Should Support Prices Greenhouse Gas Emission Rules Fail to Follow Intent of Congress USDA Announces New AMS Administrator Women Farmers and Ranchers Introduce New TV Program REG Signs Agreement With Three Biodiesel Plants To Consolidate Wall Street Hesitates After Big Rally New Group Strives to Tell Real Story of Agriculture Culling of Canadian Swine Herd Not Health Related $12 Soybeans: Now or Later? USDA the Decider for Wheat Grants to Address Effectiveness and Efficiency of National School Meals Programs More to the Story of Mapping the Cow Genome Lamy Sets Agricultural Tone Ag Budget Proposal Has Plenty of Opposition in Congress DDGS Exports Are Up Congressional District Breakdown of Ag Census Data Available Corn Looks Ahead To Tighter Supplies Polling Finds Pork Message is Being Received by Consumers Hog Operating Losses Have Skyrocketed Since H1n1 Virus North American Trade Officials Ask for Bans to Be Lifted H1N1 is More Than Just Hog Industry Threat Fertilizer Prices Mixed Into Summer US-EU Beef Agreement Doesn't Do Enough Rural Development Loans and Grants Increase Economic Opportunity Cap and Trade Hearing Conducted by Senate Finance Committee Changes Announced to Supply and Demand Reports U.S. Providing Food for Pakistan and Afghanistan Sanitary Dressing and Control Procedures Focus of New Food Rule Soybean Sales Keep Coming Peterson Vows Not to Support Any Climate Change Legislation Butler Named New GIPSA Director USDA Announces More Staff Vilsack Meets With Dairy Producers Natural Resources Under Secretary Selected Legislation Introduced to Settle Civil Rights Case H1N1 Problems Seem to be Turning Around More Trading Partners Cut Off Pork Imports Settlement Funds Set for Lawsuit Basis Firm into May Delivery Lamy Sets Stage for Next Four Years The Buzz: Trade Gears Up For May Crop Report First Step Toward Resolving Two Decade Beef Dispute Crude Oil Prices Rally to Six-Month Highs Response to Renewable Energy Announcements Has Been Favorable ARRA Funds Provided for Forest Projects CARB Ruling Already Having Impact Nations Fight Bans on Pigs and Pork Product Open Window for Field Work in Corn Belt Change in Jurisdiction of National Animal ID is Unlikely USDA, President Being Asked to Help Pork Industry President Asks For Acceleration Of Investment In And Production Of Biofuels What's Next For Stocks? Forget Conventional Wisdom Soybean Checkoff Referendum Petition is Being Circulated Several Senators Sign on as Co-sponsors of Cuban Trade Bill H1N1 May Impact Beef Too Listening Sessions Should Focus On Common Sense and Practical Solutions White House Meeting Held On Rural Health Care Despite Sick Pigs H1N1 Seems to be Winding Down Merrigan Announces Organic Farming Funds Pork's Return to Profitability Likely to Take Longer Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Hang On For a Wild Ride in Beans Alberta Farm Has Suspected Case of Influenza It's Now or Not For a While for Wheat Corn Market Faces Critical Week Animal Rights Groups Using Flu to Advance Agendas Some Expiring Contracts Eligible for CRP Extension USMEF Working to Keep Foreign Pork Markets Open Overall Consumers Have a Favorable View of Agriculture Put Your Smart Phone to Work Put Your Smart Phone to Work Stallman Asks EPA to Increase Ethanol Blend Ammonia Prices Break Sharply at the Gulf H1N1 Virus Gets Another Name Republican Group Seeks to Provide Strong Voice for Rural America. Environmental Standards Exceeded by New Manure System EU May Accept U.S. Beef Corn Basis Gathers Steam Into Delivery Corn, Soybeans Sales Still Strong Cap and Trade System Supported by NFU, NCGA Vilsack Extends CRP Emergency Use Egypt Slaughtering Hog Population Valero Offers Former Supplies Corn Contracts USDA Civil Rights Record Reviewed by House Committee Countries Encouraged to Activate Pandemic Preparedness Plans Big Rise In Crude Oil Stocks Doesn't Dent Prices The Buzz: Can Weather Trump The Flu? Rural Business Grants are Available Congress Passes 2010 Budget Resolution More Spring Planting Delays on the Way COOL Being Challenged By Canada New Trademark Program for American Grown Products The Buzz: Can Weather Trump The Flu? Resolving Civil Rights Cases Discussed by Vilsack Seven States Have Confirmed H1N1 Cases, As Well As Several Countries USDA to Be an 'Every Day, Every Way' Department Recovery and Reinvestment Funds Released for Rural Water Projects Congressional Committees Looking into Influenza Situation Wall Street Catches Cold on Flu Outbreak Applications Being Accepted for Broadband Grants Corn Planting Progress Varies Greatly 'Ghost Crop' Clause Clarified by NSP House Approves Legislation to Improve Water Research Funds Announced for Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Most Flu Cases Linked to Mexico Visits Several Countries Have Stopped U.S. Pork Imports Crop Loan Rates Announced Funds Turn Massive Sellers of Corn Fear That Flu Could Develop into Pandemic is Driving Markets Lower Will Farmers Choose ACRE? Risk Ranking of Food Requested by FSIS Administrator Does U.S. Wheat Production Matter? Tentative Budget Deal in Congress Beans Fight Back, But for How Long? Several Food Safety Bills May be Moved on Soon TB Found in West Texas Dairy Herd Groups Voice Strong Reactions To CARB Decision Pelosi Backs Off of Statement on Climate Change Final Feed Rules Are Set by FDA Meat Industry Pledges to Improve Food Safety Practices National Pork Board Urges Increased Bio-Security Plans Low Carbon Fuel Standard Adopted by CARB Summer Ammonia Prices Plummet As Planting Begins Corn, Wheat Basis Show Strengthening Survey of Nation's Organic Farmers to be Conducted President Promotes Alternative Energy and Jobs Plan Capitol Hill is Working on New Energy Bill Nearly Half of Nation's Energy Could be Low-Carbon by 2050 Big Week of Export Sales Boosts Prices Crop Insurance Works Well, But Could Be Improved Progress of Winter Wheat is Slow Petroleum Prices Try to Survive Huge Increase In Stocks The Buzz: Weather in the Bulls Eye for Corn and Wheat Ag Secretary Sees Opportunity for Agriculture to Offset Greenhouse Gas in Other Sectors Another Law Aimed at Animal Agriculture Comes Closer to Reality Ag Secretary Lays Out Civil Rights Agenda Low Carbon Fuel Standard Treating Ethanol Unfairly Jobs and Water Quality Provided by Rural Development Funding Senate Committee Approves Sebelius to Head HHS Comments Filed with California Air Resources Board by NCGA Legislation Introduced to Protect Livestock from Greenhouse Regulations President Asks for Cuts by Department Heads Bear Growls Again on Wall Street Recession's Impact Being Felt in Ag Several Days Spent Celebrating Earth Day Restoration Funds Distributed by Interior Department G8 Meeting Yields Global Food Security Document Greenhouse Gas Finding by EPA Could Impact Agriculture Changes to Food Safety System Recommended by Report More Under Secretary Nominations for USDA Profit-taking Dents Soybean Top Ag Economy Taking a Big Hit in 2009 Weather Pressures Seasonal Corn Retreat WTO Challenge of COOL May Come Quick G8 Agricultural Ministerial Hears Vilsack Discuss Agriculture's Role in Global Food Security 2009 Hurricane Season Updated Climate and Clean Energy Framework Established by Mexico and U.S. Wheat Market Tries to Hold On Bonnie Brings Plenty of Conservation Experience To USDA Biodiesel Standard Passes Iowa Senate Global Food Security Major Topic at G8 Ag Summit Fertilizer Inventories Build As Prices Fall Court Ruling Clears Way for Increased Ethanol Use in California Comments Sought on Raising Ethanol Blend Wall Comments on Broadband Funding and Services Submitted by AFBF Food, Agriculture and National Security Theme for 2009 Word Food Prize Symposium Basis Mixed on Soybean Rally China Keeps Buying U.S. Soybeans Ag Leaders Say Farmers Deserve Apology for Being Blamed for Higher Food Prices Vilsack Names 14 New Staffers Over $84 Million Fund 55 Conservation Projects Economy in Farm Sector Stronger than Other Areas Listening Tour on Animal Identification to be Held The Buzz: Soybeans Leading the Markets Germany Bans Growing GMO Corn Good 'First Step' Taken in Softening Cuba Policy Eligibility of U.S. Pork Plants Shuffled by Russia Country Pages Added to FAS Web Site Climate Change Goals Outlined by AFBF Farmers Have Conservation Reserve Options Crude Oil Supplies Soar, But Prices Hold Chinese Imports of U.S. Corn Are a Possibility Severe Weather Sweeping Across U.S. Southern Plains Wheat Condition Worsens USDA Names Another FFAS Deputy Pentagon Spending Stimulus Money Looking at Alternative Energy Outcry Over Pesticide Decision Prompts EPA to Defend Decision Carbon Sequestration Pits Developed Countries against Developing Countries Wall Street Faces First Test After Five-Week Rally Cuban Embargo Remains, But Travel Restrictions Loosened Aquatic Plants That Clean Wastewater Could Replace Corn in Ethanol Production Delay of Feed Ban Rule Proposed by FDA Marketing Assistance Loans to Begin Using Improved Method Farm Bureau, NCC and Others Asking for Review of Pesticide Rule Beans Sputter After Move to New Highs CDC Would Like Further Progress on Food Safety Wheat Market Left Cold By Freeze Additional USDA Staff and Under Secretaries Named It's Decision Time for Spring Corn Rally Research, Education and Economics Information System is Updated New FFAS Deputy Will Concentrate on International Matters Ethanol Land Use Debate Heats Up Feed Grains Demand: Our Best Overseas Customers Business Plan Basics Stay Connected: Go Surfing for More Information Best Places to Farm! Links to More Data Wholesale Fertilizer Prices Continue to Ease Russia Has De-listed 34 Pork Facilities Cutting in Half U.S. Pork Eligible for Export Falconer's Replacement at WTO Also Assumes Ag Chairmanship More High Water Headed for Red River Valley South Korea Continues to Refuse Canadian Beef Ethanol Has Little Impact on Food Prices According to CBO South Central Drought Pulling Down National Wheat Condition Numbers There is Room for Improvement of Meat and Poultry Inspection FCC Developing Broadband Access Plan Basis Mostly Firm This Week NPPC Wants All Possible Impacts of Expanding Corn Ethanol Considered High Level USDA Spots Filled Study Details National Economic Impact of Cooperatives Start Date Finally Set for ACRE Sign-up The Buzz: Watch Out for Next Week's Weather Forecasts Corn Sales Lead Export Sales Report Definition of Actively Engaged in Farming Still Problem for Pay Limits Ag Secretary Makes Farm Stop to Discuss New Production Agriculture Initiatives Falling Diesel Supplies Triggers Energy Rally Market Forces Push Down on Prices Large Coalition Wants Mexican Trucker Dispute Settled Another Ethanol Company Files Bankruptcy Salmonella in Nut Plant Continues to be Found as Investigation Expands Farm Bill Changes Regulations for MAL and LDP Programs EPA Taken to Court by Poultry Organizations Over Water Regulations Real World Climate Change Costs Focus of Series of Meetings Pesticide Ruling Concerns Senate Agriculture Leadership Secretary to Lead U.S. Delegation to G8 Ministry Budget Will Take Top Priority When Congress Returns Japan Ends Some Biotech Testing Failure to Meet Inspection Regulations Causes Poultry Recall WTO Head Calls Obama Extremely Engaged Survey Shows Farmers, Ranchers Turning to Risk Management Increased Nutrition Funds Will Provide a Significant Boost to Local Economies Senate Amendment Lowers Estate Tax Senators Pushing for Construction of Renewable Fuel Pipelines Wheat Follows the Leader Higher Acreage Cutbacks Lower Fertilizer Prices Bean Pass USDA Test with $10 Ahead Corn Tries for Upside Breakout House Passes FY 2010 Budget Resolution Pelosi Won't Push Climate Change Until Consensus Reached Farmers Who Lease Federal Land Eligible for DCP House Ag Committee Begins Focus on Food Safety Food Manufacturers Are Lobbying for Increased Sugar Imports EC Duties on Biodiesel Based on Inaccurate Facts and Omissions FDA Thinks Salmonella Caused by Commingling of Raw And Roasted Nuts USDA Providing Safety Net for Dairy Producers NACD CEO Nominated to Coordinate Legislative Affairs Funds for Rural America Promoted by Biden and Vilsack Basis Stays Firm on Futures Rally Corn Sales Stay Strong; China Buys 2009 Beans Legislative and Executive Branches Reviewing Food Safety Make insurance work for you Make insurance work for you Oil Supplies Keep Rising Ag Secretary Testifies on Proposed Reforms and Rural Revitalization Legislation Would Ease Cuban Restrictions Hog Industry Welcomes USDA Help Improving Child Nutrition in Schools Focus of Senate Ag Hearing House Ag Subcommittee Will Review State of Farm Economy Deadline Extended for ACRE and DCP Sign-up Vilsack Pleased by Designation of Additional Public Lands Profit Taking Hits Stocks To Start Key Week The Buzz: Bean Acres a Big Surprise Conservation Grant Proposals As Well As Comments Sought Temporary Worker Program in Jeopardy Wheat Market Ponders Benefits from Storm Farmer Mac Sells Ag Loans to Rabobank 25x'25 Principles Outline Transition to Reduced Carbon Economy Scientists Find Gene That Could Defend Against Soybean Rust Congress Will Debate Budget This Week Beans Face Moment of Truth Corn Market's Long Wait Is Almost Over Move Made to Upgrade Lock and Dams Moran Pushing For Change to Cuban Trade Policy Fertilizer Prices Mixed; Takeover Battles Continue Vilsack and Aussie Prime Minister Thank Firefighters Upper Midwest Feeling Effects of Flooding House Passes Bill to Establish Wildfire Fund Climate Change Task Force Established Another Nominee Withdraws from Consideration Dairy Sector and Nutrition Programs Get Help from USDA Corn Exports Bounce Back Strong Organizations Throwing Support Behind Derivatives Bill Level Playing Field for Renewable Fuels Sought in California More Support For Pushing Past Ethanol Blend Wall Hearing on Conservation Payments Finds Some Problems Bean Basis Tumbles on Futures Surge Above $9.50 Subsidy Caps and Limits Still Being Debated The BUZZ: Spring Rally Could Lift Prices Live Hog Prices Likely to Advance to The Low $50s Memo Could Violate Whistleblower Laws Greenhouse Gas Ruling Could Have Unintended Consequences Findings of Red Meat Study Called into Question Diesel Supplies Drop As Seasonal Buying Kicks In President Proposes Clean Energy Spending Kirk Sworn in as Trade Representative Vilsack Announces Top Advisors Bill Seeks to Address Truck Weight Problem Vilsack and Salazar to Keynote Renewable Energy Meeting Michener Brings Experience to FAS Falconer Stepping Down WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Fed, Treasury Moves Increase Risk Appetite Head of NRCS Announced Poultry Respiratory Disease Found on Texas Farm Lamy Warns Against Protectionism Food for Peace Program Gets Boost from Bipartisan Group Iowa Group to Push B5 Biodiesel Mandate for State Argentine Woes Give U.S. Beans a Lift Administration Nominates New Leader for Broadband Initiative Corn Outlook Brightens Ahead of Planting Officials Say G20 Could Revive WTO Agreement Wheat Market Ponders Benefits from Rain Obama Administration Seen Chipping Away at Cuba Embargo Next Generation Ethanol Firms Make Case for Higher Blend Levels Tough Fertilizer Decisions Ahead Argentina Locked in Fight over Export Tax Effort Underway to Reduce Ethanol Import Tariff VeraSun Bidder AgStar has Sale Plan USDA, IRS Team Up to Prevent Payment Fraud Broadband Hearings Set Newark Ag Officials Find New Bug Food Aid Conference Set for April Futures Rally Sinks Basis as Farmers Move Grain Export Sales Disappointing Last Week Court Approves Valero Purchase of VeraSun Facilities Energy Markets to Face Moment of Truth Farm Service Agency Updates ACRE Site Mexico Tariff Plan Could Hit U.S. Grains Buy-In Waiver Extended for Disaster Relief Programs ADM Passes on VeraSun Assets - Valero is Big Winner Scientists Line up to Support Biodiesel Researchers Create High Biomass Crop Acreage Battle Could Spur Corn Rally, Beans to Follow Farm Futures Survey Shows Corn Planting Intentions Slip 4% for 2009 Senators Want EPA to Back Away from Ethanol Rules Aventine Renewable Energy Nears Bankruptcy Wall Street Wonders if the Rally is Real Rally Hopes Sing 'I'm Going to Kansas City' How Bullish Should Your Corn Strategy Be? Climate Change Comments Are Being Sought Renewable Energy Top Priority for Interior Department 'Downer' Cow Rules Finalized U.S. Questioned on Implementation of WTO Ag Commitments Two New Nominees Announced for USDA Cuts in Safety Net Have Opposition Join the Ag Week Celebration Acreage Fears, Crude Oil Weigh on Soybean Market WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: Price volatility remains muted WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Basis Mixed as Shipping Costs Fall Budget Recommendations Made by House Agriculture Committee Tough Times for Dairy Producers Electrical Upgrade Loans Provided by Rural Development Budget Recommendations Made by House Agriculture Committee Improving Energy Efficiency Goal of Grants Export Sales Top Gloomy Expectations U.S. Will Remain Competitive In Overseas Markets Rural Agenda Unveiled by Democratic Senators Pending Trade Agreements Face Challenges House Companion Bill to Cow Tax Legislation Introduced Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID WEEKLY ENERGY REVIEW: Demand Concerns Pummel Oil Prices The Buzz: USDA Report Clears Way for Acreage Debate Same Trends That Raised Prices Last Year Are Pushing Them Down Comments Sought on Broadband Initiative USTR Vote Scheduled for Thursday Membership Meeting of NFU Concluded Vilsack, Harkin Both Favor Increasing Blend Wall National Animal Identification System Under Review by House Agriculture Committee WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Interest Rates Edge Higher, But Remain Low Delegates to Choose New National Farmers Union President E15 Could Provide Billions of Dollars of Economic Stimulus South American Dairy Farms Could be Big Market for Ethanol Byproducts Continued Volatility in Prices and High Production Costs Expected this Year American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Will Impact Rural Areas Several Leaders Will Discuss Information Infrastructure Initiative Study: Up to 40% Yield Hit from Compaction Expect Rising Interest Rates New Crop Selling Strategies Study WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Harvest Basis Remains Under Pressure Farm Bureau Supports 'Cow Tax' Legislation WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: Prices Ease A Little; Terra Rejects CF Bid Interim CEO of USSEC Has Been Named Pork Producers Need to Concentrate on Survival In 2009 Stallman Warns Against Protectionism Rates Stay Steady to Slightly Higher WEEKLY ENERGY REVIEW: Crude Prices Surge on Wall Street Rally, Supply Cut Lawmakers Want to Expand FDA Funding Common Goals Partner EPA and Farmers EPA Seeking Comment on Report China Watch Continues In Grain Export Market THE BUZZ: Analysts Don't See Big Changes in March Report USTR Nominee Found to Owe Back Taxes USDA Providing Funding for Animal Research Potential Completion of Pending Free Trade Agreements North Dakota Ag Commissioner Will Run for NFU President Philippine Government Backs Off Threat of Denying Import Licenses WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Will Dollar Be Next Safe Haven to Fail? USB Offers Farmers Chance to Learn About Checkoff Program Commercialization of Biotech Traits in Wheat Has Support Terrorist Attacks By Animal Rights Extremists On Rise Sebelius Nominated as HHS Secretary Sale of Sorghum Presents Possible Opportunities WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Beans Take A Licking, Keep On Ticking — For Now Policy Direction for Next Year Set by ASA WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Crop Ratings Hold Key to Rally COOL May Be Challenged in WTO Farmers Can Still Buy-In to SURE WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: Options Expiration Deflates Corn Expectations Chinese Cotton Registry May Violate WTO Rules Rotating Crops with a Plan Rotating Crops with a Plan Direct Payment Proposal Concerns Farm Groups; Legislators Keystone Alliance Offers New Calculator Offsets Will Re-Deploy Some Title I Commodity Program Money Budget Will Impact WTO Talks U.S. Ag Economy Should Remain Fundamentally Sound USDA Inspector General Investigation Addressed by ASA Leaders Checkoff Supported Soybean Genome Mapping WEEKLY FERTLIZER REVIEW: Fertilizer Prices Mostly Steady At Major Terminal Points CFTC Nominee Questioned by Ag Committee WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Cash Market Faces Start to March Deliveries Buis Steps Down as NFU President U.S. Economy Will Recover Recession Could End In 2009 - Maybe USSF Delegates Barred from Voting at Commodity Classic Response to Blend Wall Request Encouraging WEEKLY ENERGY REVIEW: Drop in Gasoline Stocks Sends Prices Sharply Higher Fertilizer Still Good Investment Economic Stimulus Package Delays Action on USTR CF Industries Receives Buy Bid from Agrium Regulation of Farm Dust Upheld by Appeals Court Export Tax Still Being Argued in Argentina Policy Changes Toward Cuba May Happen Several Ag Appointment Decisions Have Been Made Democratic Leadership Releases Omnibus Spending Bill WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Nervous Markets Await Obama Speech More Speakers Added to Ag Outlook Forum WTO Talks Slowly Moving Several Issues Being Explored by Congressional Hearings WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Argentine Rains Break Soybean Market Hard Groups Respond to JBS Announcement WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Wheat Tries to Play China Card Obama Promotes Free Flowing Trade USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: Bearish Options Expiration Could Pressure Corn From Too Much Fertilizer to Not Enough Export Sales Brighten Market Gloom Pork Checkoff Referendum Won't Be Held WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: Plunging Natural Gas Prices Could Make Nitrogen Cheaper — Next Year Higher Placement of Cattle in Feedlots Expected JBS Abandons National Beef Acquisition Sale of VeraSun Ethanol Facilities Approved Conference Will Develop Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture Trade and Environment Focus of Trip to Our Northern Neighbors Demand Outstripping Supply of Veterinarians Study Shows More Fertilizer Doesn't Always Mean More Profit Marketing Roadmap for 2009 WEEKLY ENERGY REVIEW: Surprise Draw in Crude Stocks Sends Prices Sharply Higher Ag Secretary COOL News Conference Postponed No Single Factor Driving Beef Demand Inspection of State Livestock Programs Underway Stimulus Bill Becomes Law Groups Meet to Discuss Cattle Industry Livestock Losses Limited by Pharmaceutical Technology Farmers Forecast Weaker Land Prices Distributors and Insurance Carrier Seek to Limit Liability WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Gold is All That Glitters Obama Will Sign Stimulus Bill Tuesday Request for OCS Development to Continue Silver Lining for U.S. Cotton Industry WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Wheat Market Waits for Spring to Arrive WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Question Marks Hang Over Soybean Market National Biodiesel Board Launches YouTube Channel Control of Stimulus Internet Funding in Question WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: Bulls Starting to Show Nerves As Rally Remains Elusive Vilsack Meets with Livestock Coalition USDA Releases Annual 10-Year Projections WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: Fertilizer Prices Drift at Wholesale Level As Farmers Make Final Decisions Ethanol Attacks Being Answered by Corn and Ethanol Industry House and Senate Set to Vote on Stimulus Package Committees Passes Transparency in Markets Bill New Five-Year Plan for Oil and Gas Exploration More Problems with Cabinet Use of Biotech Crops is on the Rise Negotiators Trim Stimulus Package by $30 Billion WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Falling Freight Brings Better Basis Strong Export Sales Could Help Prices More Trouble for Peanut Industry Speculation Bill Re-Introduced in House Stimulus Bill Now Headed to Conference Single Food Safety Agency Supported by Ag Secretary U.S. Ag Exports to Central America Have Topped $34 Billion WEEKLY ENERGY REVIEW: Crude Stumbles But Products Show Strength Several Factors Lead to Lowering of Price Estimates AGI and Payment Limit Reform Implementation Requested USDA Will Have a Seat at the Table Stimulus Vote in Senate Scheduled Much Interest in New Supply and Demand Numbers WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Rescue Plans Stir Financial Market Volatility Valero Makes Bid to Purchase VeraSun Assets WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Weather Is Last, Best Hope for Wheat Rally USDA Has Annual 10-Year Projections South American Crop Problems May Stimulate U.S. Grain Exports WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Risks Ramp Up in Soybean Market Obama Requests EPA Revisit California Greenhouse Emissions Decision WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: February Turns into Crucial Month for Corn Congressional Hearings on Rural Economy Requested Harkin and Chambliss Call for Stronger Food Safety WTO Court Backs EU Against US Peanut Company Suspended for One Year WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: Demand to Boost Prices Move Toward Livestock Specialization Great Farm Offices First Person with Europe's Ag Commissioner Big Bin Management WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Corn Basis Soars On Farmers, Freight And Freeze Investigation of USDA Labs Underway in Iowa Corn Sales Keep Chugging To New Highs Crop Condition for Winter Wheat Varies EU Says WTO Commitments Aren't Being Taken Into Account Ag Census Data Has Been Released Ag Census Shows Drop in Number of Grain Operations and Mid-Sized Farms NBB Presents Guiding Principles at National Conference Bill Gives CFTC Tools to Ensure Fairness WTO Doha Talks to Drag On Legislation Creates Agriculture Competition Task Force Soybean Rust Web Site Receives Funding WEEKLY ENERGY REVIEW: Crude Oil Stocks Rise for Sixth Straight Week Livestock Producers Holding Bad Claims Will be Paid Lamb Referendum Being Held Interest Rates Are Down USDA Modernization and Biofuels Included in Stimulus Cattle Market Has a New Playbook WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Wall Street Faces Nervous Week Attempt Being Made to Close Hedge Fund Loophole WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Argentine Problems Take Center Stage for Soybeans USDA Providing Funding For Training And Outreach Court Date for JBS Swift Delayed WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: January is Over; Corn Market's Battle of Nerves Isn't Wisconsin Ethanol Plant Becomes Latest Bankruptcy Victim WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Wheat Market Tries to Hold Heat Republican Senator Could Be Named To Cabinet Post Give ACRE a Trial Spin Give ACRE a Trial Spin WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: U.S. Ammonia Prices Follow World Market Higher Long-Term Trend Is Higher For Cattle Two-year Recall Announced for Peanut Butter Products Plant Sales Up Next for VeraSun Russia to Shut Door on Some U.S. Pork and Poultry Payments for Cotton, Not for Other Crops CREP Agreement will Reduce Sediment Loading WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Corn Basis Continues to Strengthen Bipartisan Support for Bill Banning Cattle Imports USDA Lengthens Comment Period on Forrest Rules Corn Sales Surprise, Beans Stumble WEEKLY ENERGY REVIEW: Crude Oil Stocks Build Again Terra Rejects CF Industries Takeover Bid Possible FSIS Candidate Refuse Comment Few Issues Remain for Doha Corn Growers Asking for Waterway Improvement in Stimulus New Survey: Fertilizer Prices Show Little Movement Senate Finance Votes Down Wind Energy Amendments Fed Says Recovery Could Start Later in Year — Maybe WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Interest Rates Nudge Higher Senators Seek Federal Crop Insurance Clarification November Meat Export Numbers Higher Grassley Expected to Offer Amendments to Stimulus Package New Ag Secretary Outlines Agency Priorities Congress, Not President, Will Be Stumbling Block for U.S. Ag Trade Ten Things We Learned At The Summit WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: Corn Market Plays Waiting Game WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Bean Bulls Are Still Waiting Possible Merger of CFTC with SEC Still Being Studied Congressional Leaders Meet With White House WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Wheat Market Avoids Break to New Lows Level Playing Field Being Sought for Trade Cuban Trade Changes Requested by Ag Groups Advances in Biofuel Performance and Energy Balance Shown Staff Picks Made at USDA Stimulus Package Priorities Listed by Farm Bureau Sorghum Growers Experience Bumpy Market WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Corn Pushes Pop Up In Processor Market WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: World Fertilizer Prices Begin To Move Higher Save the Family Farm and Ranch Act Reintroduced in Congress Geographic Shift in Ag Subcommittee Leadership Dairy Buyout in Stimulus Package Draws Opposition Export Sales Show Brisk Pace for Week USDA Regulations Being Reviewed by Obama Administration R-CALF USA Wants Improvements to Protect U.S. Cattle Industry Soybeans Holding Their Own in World Market Supplement to Census of Agriculture Looks at Irrigation Republicans Say They Are Being Kept Out of the Stimulus Package Process Senator Places Hold on Environmental Appointments Huge Wheat Recovery Pulls Prices Down Secretary of Agriculture Confirmed Tuesday USDA Gets $250 Million for Computer Upgrade VeraSun Selling Some Ethanol Plants Schwab Says Progress Was Made at Doha WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Earnings Season Debuts on Wall Street Lawsuit Against EPA Alleges Improper Release of Guidelines Russia Wants Relaxed WTO Rules Drilling Recommendations May or May Not Be Followed Deadline for Crop Disaster Sign up Coming Fast WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Seasonal Trends Could Help Wheat Avoid Abyss WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: Corn Rally Tries To Prove The Worst Is Over Peru TPA Finally Implemented NRCS Announces Funding for Conservation Innovation Grants USDA Approves Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Loan Guarantee JBS is Exploring Expanding Feedlot Business WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: World Gets Nervous About Soybean Supply USDA Publishes Interim Final Rule for EQIP CF Bid for Terra Highlights Fertilizer Turmoil Disagreements Likely to Flare Up Again Over COOL U.S. Modifies List of EU Products Subject to Additional Duties Canada Puts Hold on WTO Complaint Against U.S. Smooth Sailing So Far For Ag Secretary Nominee EU Official Says Biotech Acceptance Simply A Matter of Time Support for Renewable Fuels, Rural Economy Approved Obama Administration Receives ASA Policy Priorities Export Sales Are Feast or Famine Manhattan Location of Biosecurity Lab is Final Conformation Hearing Held for Chu Hay Expo Returns to Wisconsin Ethanol is Bracing for Challenges in 2009 Vilsack Brings Midwest Roots to USDA What You Should Know About ACRE Groups Discuss Energy Recommendations for Congress WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Drop In Trade Deficit Isn't All Good News Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Schafer Addresses Farm Bureau Convention Report Shows Increased Efficiency in Agriculture Mixed Reactions to COOL Regulations Exports for Coarse Grains Projected Down 17 Million Tons from Last Year Priority Issues Outlined by American Farm Bureau New Soybean Group Responds to ASA Press Release RFS Shortfall is Doubtful Ag Sector in Good Shape According to Stallman WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: USDA Report Sets Stage for Winter Moves WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: New Crop Concerns Take Center Stage WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: South American Weather Rallies Beans Three Plants Shuttered by VeraSun WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: Fertilizer Prices Hint at Start to Seasonal Strength Feed Prices Remain High, Milk Prices Collapse Ag Secretary Sums Up Adminstration Accomplishments Final Rule for COOL Signed USDA Report Drawing More Attention than Usual Vilsack Could Be Shifted to Commerce Post WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Bean Basis Weakens on Futures Rally Soybean Associations Feel New Voice is Needed Corn, Wheat Sales Fall Off a Cliff Crude Oil Plunge Signals Fuel-Buying Opportunity Future Competitiveness of Wheat May Depend on Biotech Traits Nothing Left To Trade Renewable Energy a Cornerstone to Obama Stimulus Package Inspector General to Investigate Soybean Checkoff Lamy Appears Set for Second WTO Term APHIS is Requiring New Cattle Facility in Mexico Further Investigation of Crop Insurance by GAO Expected Developing Countries Get Preferential Treatment Under Doha Talks Disappointment Shown by NCGA on Lack of Doha Movement WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Wall Street Gloom Lifts on Year-End Rally Hearings for Cabinet Nominees Scheduled Cost of Corn Production May Mean More Soybeans Dry Weather Hurt Southeastern Australia U.S. Agriculture Will Be Impacted by the World Economy in 2009 New NCBA CEO Named USDA Meeting with Mexican Officials CCC Rates Announced for January New Position for USDA Deputy Southern Brazil Still Facing Dry Weather Controversy Unfolds Surrounding 'Organic' Fertilizer River Locks Reopen Just Before Holidays EQIP Program Comes Under Fire Give Your Farm a Financial Check-up Give Your Farm a Financial Check-up Smaller Swine Herd Than Expected Past Soybean Leaders Disagree with Alleged Charges Flooding Still Hampers River Traffic Upcoming USDA Report Could Add to Volatility Majority of Bee Losses Could be CCD Related China Export Limit May Have Little Impact Lender Seeks Lien on Ethanol from VeraSun Grain Groups Talk Merger Group Claims Victory in Premise Registration Illinois Rivers Locks Shut Down Scholarships from USDA Available for 2009 Funding Requested by Ports for Harbor Maintenance Wheat Holding Up Under Winter Weather Russia Blocking Some U.S. Imports Several Factors Behind Positive Farm Economic Trends China to Make Major Corn Buy Farm, Food Groups Make Call for Food Support Soybean Demand Picture Clouded for 2009 Higher Costs Unfold as Dairy Tech is Removed Deputy Will Fill Remaining Time at Rural Development EU Seeks Lift of Sanctions in Hormone-Treated Beef Dispute NCGA Releasing Information About Ethanol Bankruptcy More Praise for ACRE Australian State Approves Biotech Canola Trial Last Month's Milk Production Forecast Lowered Deal Will Explore Possibility of School Meals In Africa Grants for Projects to Reduce Methane Emissions Changes Made to Meet 2008 Farm Bill Requirements U.S. Makes Jump in Korean Marketshare in 2008 WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Wheat Tries to Convince Buyers The Time Is Now Monday Marks Beginning of Farm Program Signups USDA Makes ACRE Decision Beef Sector Sees Lower Returns and Margins Despite Smaller Inventories WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Beans on the Brink of Breakout WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: New Crop Is Only Fuel Corn Market Has New Office Will Help Ag Secretary Develop Market-Based Approaches Energy Outlook Projects Slower Energy Use Selling of Plants Could Allow Acquisition WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: Fertilizer Prices Could Be Bottoming Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed Argentina Cuts Wheat Forecast It Is Official: Vilsack Nominated for Ag Secretary WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Strong Basis Signals Sales in Some Areas Chinese Purchases Dominate Strong Soy Sales USDA Will Provide International Food Assistance Senator Calls for Next Step in Vietnamese Importation of U.S. Beef WEEKLY ENERGY REVIEW: Weak Fed Outlook Trumps OPEC Cut USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress Food Production Faces Challenges from Climate Change Cash Net Income Adjusted Downward Cabinet Close to Being Complete Energy Nominations Announced by President-elect ELPC and 25x'25 Make Recommendations to Improve Economy Dorr Says Transition Has Been Remarkable Energy Will Play a Key Role in Future Rural Development Policy Initiatives Are In Place for Stimulus Package WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Dollar Crumbles In Wake of Surprise Fed Statement Ag Secretary Looks to Be Vilsack Livestock Producers Exemption Granted by EPA WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: Has the Worm Finally Turned? Higher Imports of Soybeans Expected Lamy Decides Not to Call Ministerial Meeting WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Wheat Tries To Convince Buyers The Time Is Now WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Is Old Crop Soy Demand Strong Enough? Drought and Frost Hurt Argentine Wheat Crop Slots in the Cabinet Being Filled WEEKLY FERTILIZER REVIEW: DAP Follows Ammonia Lower Middle East Livestock Interested in Feed Milling Techniques U.S. Supplying a Quarter of Iraq Food Imports Major Shift In Weather Expected WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Strong Demand Boosts Bean Basis Corn Sales Rebound, Soy Still Strong USDA Makes Changes to Address IOG Report Professor Says Don't Sell Contracted Corn to Another Buyer until Rejected Hearing Set for Case Against USDA Auction of Surplus Dry Milk Some Areas Having Problems with Wheat Lucas Named New House Agriculture Ranking Member Farm Futures Says Farmers Will Cut Corn Plantings In 2009 In Favor Of Soybeans Mobile Computing Buyers' Guide USDA Releases Commodity Forecast Thursday Inspector General Completes Slaughter Investigation WTO Talks Delayed North Dakota Cow Confirmed TB Report on Agency Coordination Shows Improvement Trade Diplomats Reject Quick Ministerial Meeting Potash Corp. Says It Will Cut Output in 2009 WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Doom and Gloom On Wall Street Lifts A Bit Trade Needs to Be Expanded Between China and U.S. Better Nutrition Can Help Prevent Health Problems WTO Holds Regular Committee Meeting International Conference Advances Cause Of Renewable Energy Farmers Can Get Credit, But Other Challenges Remain Utilization of Cloning Discussed in Argentina WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Buyers Give Wheat the Wal-Mart Treatment WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: Is This 'The Winter of Our Discontent?' WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Soybeans Try to Assert Strong Fundamentals UPDATED FERTILIZER REVIEW: Fertilizer Prices Collapse To Multi-Year Lows Bankruptcy Court Approves VeraSun Financing Technology is Linchpin to Sustainable Biofuel Industry Argentine Farm Export Limits to Become Permanent WEEKLY BASIS REVIEW: Drop In Fuel Costs Help Basis A Little Australia Allows Import of Ethanol Co-Product WEEKLY FERTLIZER REVIEW: Fertilizer Prices Collapse to Multi-Year Lows WTO Ministers Meeting In Geneva Next Week Working Capital May Make the Difference Between Good Times and Bad Stronger Dollar and Weaker Demand Leads to Decline in Exports National Labs Relocating from Plum Island to Manhattan, Kansas Oil supplies tighten, but remain adequate Weekly Energy Review for Dec. 4, 2008 Challenges for Agriculture for the Next 30 Years Identified by Report Holiday Slows Export Sales K-State Chosen to House Bio-Agro Defense Facility Chambliss Wins Georgia Senate Runoff Several Economic Issues Will Be Explored During U.S. and China Meeting APHIS Asked to Remove Regulations for GMO Corn USDA Restructuring Inevitable According to Stenholm Challenge of COOL at WTO May Come from Canada Bankruptcy Reorganization Planned by Pilgrim's Pride Progress in Protecting Food Supply Reported by FDA WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: Stock Market Tries For Rebound U.S. BioEnergy Corn Contracts Cancelled by VeraSun WTO Leader Says He May Call Ministers to Geneva in December Commodity Rebound in 2009 Will be Lead by Agriculture USDA Seeking Input on Bovine Tuberculosis Program Proposal Would Set Up Sites for Future Pipelines Permit Fees Could Be Expensive if Livestock Included in Clean Air Act It Is a Tough Call Predicting Beef Prices for Next Year So Far Little Progress Made in Lame Duck Session Reversal of Regulations on Trade Policy with Cuba Requested Videos Featuring "Meat Science Guy' Uploaded to YouTube Two Turkeys Granted Presidential Pardons USDA Hotline Will Be Open on Thanksgiving The Andersons Take Big Loss from Fertilizer Collapse Workshop Will Help Families Face Challenge of Farming Together U.S. Beef Sales to Resume by Major Korean Retailers Farm Payments Called into Question by GAO VeraSun's Corn Contract Procedures Challenged Economists Prepare Overview of How Tax Changes Impact Farming USDA Lowers Expected Food Price Inflation for Next Year WTO Talks Still Stuck WEEKLY FINANCIAL REVIEW: New Fed Bailout Plan Lifts Stock Market Several Factors Lead to Less U.S. Meat Production VeraSun Receives Indication of Interest in Acquisition Many Crops Still in the Field USDA Report Show Beef Industry Contraction Sustainability a Big Issue at Biodiesel Symposium Next Ag Secretary Will Not be Vilsack Farmers May Pay More for Credit WEEKLY CORN REVIEW: "D" Word Enters Corn Market's Vocabulary WEEKLY SOYBEAN REVIEW: Beans Can't Buy a Break In Soft Market WEEKLY WHEAT REVIEW: Wheat Fights to Reject Another Leg Down Sorghum Checkoff Board Meets with USDA Eastern Australia Hit Hard By Rains This Week Least Drought Coverage in Three Years Weekly Fertilizer Review: Fertilizer Prices Remain Soft As Production Cuts Mount Bill Introduced That Would Require Trading of All Contracts on Regulated Exchanges Colombian Trade Agreement Could Be Coupled with Auto Bailout Senators Accuse Taiwan of Unfair Trade Practices Higher Revenues Failed to Keep VeraSun in the Black Diverse Group Chosen to Guide Biodiesel Industry Soybean Exports Stay Strong on Chinese Demand Dairy Price Forecasts Have Dropped Weekly Basis Review: Demand Rules Basis Market, For Better or Worse More Than 500 Million Gallons of RFS Must be Diesel Conference in Brazil Will Focus on Second Generation Biofuels Quick Response to Call for Ending Ethanol Incentives Weekly Energy Review: Weak Demand Propels Oil to New Lows Review of Environmental and Financial Progress at EPA Submitted Spot Market Prices for Corn being Offered by VeraSun Another Attack on Corn and Ethanol Over Food Prices Doha Farm Negotiators Need To Show Changed Positions Another Canadian Case of BSE is Found Corn Growers CEO Touts Ethanol as Energy Solution Annual Report Examines Concentration in Ethanol Industry Beans and Wheat on Schedule, Corn Still Behind EPA Announces RFS Increase for 2009 Investors Lack Confidence, Remain On Sidelines Matching Funds Available for Meat Companies to Open International Markets Lame Duck Session Will Be Held This Week U.S. Grains Council Works to Ensure Colombian Market President Urges Pledge of Doha Framework by Year End Oil Market Slump Stymies Beans Wheat Tries To Lead Grains Out Of Slump Export Slump, Wall Street Gloom Keeps Corn Quiet Get the Disaster Protection You Need Farm Bill Foot Dragging Biofuels Update Keep it Simple Members of Dairy Promotion Board Named Energy Markets May Have Good News Lack of Support for Auto Bill May Keep Congress from Reconvening Ug99 Resistance Closer with Development of Wild Grass Export Sales Taper Off Fertilizer Prices Nearing Bottom? Surveyed Consumers Seem To Be Focused On Long Term Energy Solutions Food Organization Warns of Shortages USDA Cuts Loose $77 Million for Farmland Repair Ag Secretary Hopes Trade Opportunities Continue Under New Administration Schwab Meets with EU Trade Commissioner on Import Restrictions Ethanol Producers Want to Set Record Straight on Food Prices Obama Made Inroads into Traditionally Republican Areas Negotiations Underway Between Canada and Korea on Resuming Beef Exports Agriculture Cooperatives Dominate List Price of Corn Has been Rollercoaster Ride Strategic Plan and Budget Highlight National Pork Board Meeting Corn Lags Far Behind Normal as Soybean Harvest Wraps Up Wheat Planting All But Done American Farm Bureau Looking for New Approach to World Trade Talks USDA Implements 2008 Farm Bill Amendments Strong Beef Exports are a Bright Spot Britain is Following U.S. on Meat Labeling Bankruptcy Code Prevents VeraSun from Paying Schafer Expects Smooth Change at USDA Air, Research and Education Appointments Announced Fertilizer Prices Remain Volatile with Demand Weak No Surprises Expected In November Crop Report Dry Weather Prompts ABARE to Cut Australian Wheat Prediction Agriculture is Much Stronger Financially than Early '80s Transition to New Administration Is Beginning Already Farm Groups Urge End of Partisanship for New Administration Soybean Shipments Reach Marketing Year High, But Corn Lags Basis Along River System Drops Again on Record Barge Freight Fewer Problems Seen in Rural Housing Warm, Dry Weather Pattern Coming to an End Lamy Talks About World Chaos EPA Asked for Delay on Land Use Rules Drop in Gas Prices No Boon to Driving California Prop 2 Passes Pew Report Targets 'Industrial Farms' Wheat Looks Good, Corn Lags Behind Tariffs Imposed over Beef Hormones Need to be Reassessed Ethanol Maker's Bankruptcy Proceeds in Courts Early Australian Numbers are for High Quality and Quantity Harvest Obama Comments on Agriculture Challenged Two New Administrators Announced EPA Issues New Requirements For CAFOs Credit Guarantee Program is Good for U.S. Farmers VeraSun Declares Bankruptcy Fertilizer Prices Plummet Cattle Group Remains Neutral on Election Initial Draft of Rules on Air Quality New Ag Secretary will Keynote Ag Forum Opponents Pushing Hard Against California Animal Confinement Initiative Alternative to Antibiotics Use in Poultry Found Soybean Sales And Shipments Reach Marketing Year High Weather and Economics Cutting Wheat Acres Farm Borrowers May Not Benefit from Cut in Interest Rates Corn or Beans - Which Will be More Profitable Next Year? Petroleum Prices Bounce On Wall Street Rally, Lower Gas Stocks WTO Leader Promotes Trade Opening with Regulation Unprecedented Reissue of Crop Report Nitrogen Poised For Downturn Studies Show Ethanol is Environmentally Sound and Has Room to Grow Research Shows Wild Birds Play Bigger Role in Virus Movement Changes Are Ahead for Farm Lending Secretary Meets with Livestock Industry to Discuss Loan Guarantee Program Wheat Planting Slightly Behind Average NASS Releases Corrected Version on October Crop Report October Lows Hold As Stocks Try to Rally Biodiesel Production Evaluated in New Commentary Amendments Add Clarification to Packers and Stockyards Act Forum Looks at the Issue of Food and Fuel Milk Price Slide Causes Need to Decrease Milk Production Wheat Tries To Swim Upstream Against A Strong Current Beans Try To Carve Out A Bottom Financial Jitters Weigh On Corn, But Cash Prices Rally Wheat Tries To Swim Upstream Against A Strong Current Electronic Only Trading at MGEX Recommended Big Improvement in Ukraine Grain Harvest Rural Electric Loans Made By USDA Criticism of USDA Concerning Civil Rights Midwest Arrival of Soybean Rust Major Packers Agree to Use USA Label Basis Moves Sharply Higher Thanks To the "Three D's" Soybean Shipments Finally Surge, New Sales Strong Fertilizer Prices Drop, But Can Anyone Buy? Six Charged In Iowa Animal Cruelty Case Livestock Groups Say Ethanol Getting Preferential Treatment USDA Working Through The Process Of Final Rules for Revenue Program Search Committee Formed to Find New NCBA CEO Next Year Will See Lower Production and Price for Livestock Strong Dollar, Rising Stocks Push Energy Prices Lower Despite OPEC Threat Alberta Cattle Regain Access to Mexico Distillers Grain Markets Continue to Grow Showers and Snow Will Delay Harvest But Help Wheat Rains Too Late for Parts of Argentine Wheat Crop Market Choices Certification Will Be Phased Out By Fall 2009. Dry Weather Gives Way to Rain as Planting Season Begins in Argentina Wheat Production Estimate in Australia is Deteriorating Suit Against Packer Acquisition Draws Praise for Justice Department Benefit Calculator will Help Producers Choose Proper Farm Program Certified Beef Provides Taste and Consistency Elevators Need to Be Wary of Grain Contract Schemes Acquisition of National Beef Being Blocked by Antitrust Lawsuit Increased Economic Activity from Renewable Energy will Help Financial Recovery Beans Bounce Back After Thursday's Bullish Reversal Friday Rally Lifts Corn Market Spirits A Little Wheat Faces Moment Of Truth, Passes First Test U.S. Farmers Producing Second Largest Corn Crop Thanks to Biotechnology Beef Ban Ruling Handed Down by WTO Lamy Throws in Towel on Concluding Doha This Year Increase in Wheat Production Good for Food Prices, Not so Good for Farmers Corn, Soybean Sales Good But Shipments Lag Slow Harvest, Weak Futures And Lower Costs Boost Basis Falling Crop Prices Lower Most Fertilizer Prices Too Another Big Build in Supplies Sends Crude Below $70 Harvest an Acre, Feed the World: Farmers Challenged to End Hunger Despite Economy, Aid Still Needed Around World Disabled Farmers Receive Help to Continue in Agriculture Export Forecast Could Be Exceeded Specifications for Blending of Biodiesel Published Number of E85 Sites Tops 1800 Trade and Technology Promotion Award Given to Australian Farmer Nation's Corn Crop Continues to Mature But Lags Behind Last Year More Funds Will Be Needed for Food Relief Global Bank Bailout Calms Markets — For Now Lower Input Costs May Offset Lower Commodity Prices Events May Have Implications for Animal Agriculture Production Expectations Lowered for Aussie Wheat Farm Bill Mandates County Level Survey of Cash Rents U.S. Agriculture Remains Strong and Credit Worthy Role of Credit Derivatives in Financial Crisis Will Be Explored By Ag Committees USDA Is Offering Incentive Payments Under CRP USDA Boosts Wheat Ending Stocks, Adding To Pressure Bad News from USDA and Wall Street Punishes Soybeans Bearish USDA Report Adds Insult to Injury Chinese Delegation Visits U.S. to Examine Pork Industry Music Tour Scheduled to Trade for Oil Ag Secretary Speaks About Ag Issues at Forum Food from Cloned Animals Gets Negative Response from European Poll Presidential Candidates Aim for Rural Voters McCain vs. Obama: Where They Stand Global Markets Necessitate Increased Oversight Some Areas Welcome Rain, Others Could Do Without Urea Prices Continue to Fall As Fertilizer Market Softens Export Sales Exceed Expectations All Around EPA Will Release Final Rules of Clean Water Act Specialty Crop Research Gets More Than $28 Million from USDA USDA Awards Nearly $1 Million for Pest Research Huge Build in Petroleum Stocks Pressures Energy Prices GOP Ticket Chooses Team of Advisors for Rural Issues Regulations for Genetic Engineered Organisms Proposed by USDA Officials Unveil Plan for Meaningful Biofuels Production by 2022. Soybean Rust Tracking System Needs Funding for 2009 Russian Grain Harvest Outpaces Expectations Humane Society Charged with Illegal Use of Recorded Phone Calls Ethanol Tariff to Be Discussed in Trade Talks Delays in Harvest Particularly Large in Midwest Farm Bill Implementation Meetings Scheduled Trade Preference Legislation Moving Forward Bad News from USDA and Wall Street Punishes Soybeans Capital Flight from Commodities Hammers Corn Chicken Conference Panel Explores Challenges to Chicken Industry Wheat Looks For Silver Lining, Only Gets Wet Public Access to CRP Could Lead to Incentive Payments Databank That Helps Avoid Residue in Food Animals Closing New WTO NAMA Group Leader Named Cotton Requests Expansion of Textile Monitoring Meat Groups Provide Seminars to Mexican Retailers on Value Cuts South American Crop Areas Receiving Favorable Rains Higher Barge Freight Makes Storage Attractive Bailout Package Passes House, Heads to President Slower Global Growth of Biodiesel Positions U.S. as Leading Market Wheat Sales Rebound Standoff In Fertilizer Market Continues As Buyers Balk Bailout Bill Passes Senate With Some Extra Attachments Trade Organizations Receive Funding from USDA Hard Freeze Still Some Time Away in Upper Midwest Senator Proposes Amendments to Beef Checkoff Legislation Senior Preferred Shares Help Farmer Mac Fiscal Conservatism Keeps Farm Credit Strong Implementation of COOL Underway Bailout Bill Hangs In Balance, Pushing Wall Street to The Brink Finacial Bailout Goes Down to Defeat in House Products Possibly Contaminated by Chinese Milk Pulled from Shelves Farrowing Cuts May Not Tighten Supplies and Boost Prices Enough to Bring Profits Disaster Program and 10-Acre Rule Addressed by Senate China Corn Production Projected Higher Farm Bureau Releases Analysis of Financial Crisis Several Programs Have Deadlines Tuesday North American Label for COOL Goes Beyond Congressional Intent Another Argentine Farm Strike is Likely Package for Bailout Worked Out by Congress Harvest Pressure, Wall Street Mess Weigh On Corn Prices Harvest Pickup Could Hold Back Prices Wheat Suffers From Export Disappointment Trade Mission Assesses European Potential as Market for Grain Sorghum Head of USDA Food Safety Agency is Retiring Negotiations on Bailout Package Are Stuck Chance of Frost May Increase Next Week National Cattlemen's Beef Association CEO Resigns Bean Basis Breaks Hard As Harvest Begins Smaller Breeding Herd But Larger Hog Inventory Expected Proposed Rule on Exempting CAFOs on Air Emissions Draws Criticism Farm Bill Amendment on 10-acre Provision Passes House Farm Credit Nominee Tells Senate Hearing Farm Credit System Healthy Lower Urea Prices Spur Hopes For Cheaper Fertilizer Wheat Exports Falter Energy and Trade Policies Affecting Feed Industry Discussed with Obama Advisers Cow Calf Producers Benefiting from Ike's Heavy Rain Deadline for Fall Crop Insurance Approaching Fast Oil Tries To Sustain Rally After Wild October Expiration Congress Has Reservations About Wall Street Bailout Speculators Move to Cash Putting Drag on Grain Prices Senate Passes Bill that Extends Biodiesel Tax Credit CAFTA-DR Implementation to be Completed McCain Leads Obama Among Rural Voters Decline in Condition of Nation's Corn Crop Wall Street Mess Trickles Down To The Farm Renewable Fuels Association Telling Story of Ethanol Through Faces and Places Corn Tries To Stay Afloat In Wild Financial Sea Soybeans Survive First Serious Test On Charts Status Change for Montana Limits Cattle Movement Feedlot Numbers Continue to Go Down Amendment to 10-Acre Rule Passes House Ag Committee House Approves Legislation on Limiting Speculation Wheat Tries To Recover From Bearish Break Argentine Picketing and Blockades Come to an End Obama Receives Ag Related Endorsements Higher Placements, Lower Marketings Predicted by Plain Maple Leaf Bartor Road Plant Resumes Production Promoting Trade and Investment Opportunities Goal of Mission Senate to Debate Energy Tax Extenders Package Food and Nutrition Programs will Distribute Fresh Tomatoes Judiciary Committee Adjourns Without Horse Bill Vote Warm Weather System Expected to Continue Next Two Weeks Wheat Leads Export Parade Who Will Be First To Blink In Fertilizer Standoff? Guidelines on Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Released Market Watches Supply Drop in Ike's Wake Australian Wheat Estimate is Higher than USDA Forecast Oral Arguments Presented on Appeal of Particulate Matter Case Tax Provisions Moving Slowly Forward Horse Industry Opposes Bill That Would Criminalize Sale Or Transport Of Horses For Processing Financial Turmoil Snares Ethanol Processors Officials Meet Again to Move Talks Forward. CFTC Commissioner Chilton Seeks Time, Resources and Regulatory Authority Lehman Brothers, Inc. Not Affected by Bankruptcy Wall Street Death Watch Shifts to Big Insurer Wet Weather Problematic for Late Maturing Crops Schafer Will Participate in U.S.-China Trade Talks Energy Options Discussed in Senate Second Herd With Bovine Tuberculosis Found in New Mexico Crop Report Lowers Yield Estimates, More Cuts Could Be Ahead UN Expert is Ignoring Facts Regarding Biofuels Role in Food Prices Acting CFTC Chair Testifies Before House Ag Committee Genetic Cause Has Been Found For BSE Trade Sanctions with Cuba Make Disaster Assistance Difficult Big Yield Dreams Saving Africa Being Prepared to Borrow Ethanol Future Bright More Cotton Delivery Points Needed House Committee Hears Testimony on Biodiesel Tax Incentive Extension of Deadline for Disaster Buy-in Requested Bacterium Could Lower Cost of Cellulosic Ethanol Corn Exports Slow Wyoming Rancher Will Depopulate Brucellosis Infected Herd Canadian Investigation of Listeriosis Outbreak Turns Up Source of Contamination Hurricane Hitting Texas Could Send Soybean Rust into Midwest New Energy Reform Act Could be Voted on Next Week Discovery Could Lead to BSE Test for Live Animals Criminal Horse Bill Comes to Vote U.S. Beef Passes Inspection in Korea Conner says USDA Will Have ACRE for 2009 Crops JBS Approves Issuing ADRs in U.S. Grants Will Develop International Collaboration in Science and Education Rust Found in Arkansas Some Areas Lagging Behind But Corn Condition Shows Stability Bailout of Big Lenders Buoys Market Mexico Suspends Meat Shipments to U.S. Officials are Meeting about Doha in Geneva This Week To Improve Convergence Wheat Contracts May Change Another Big Hurricane is Headed for the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Take Concerns to Lawmakers Listeriosis Outbreak in Canada Investigated by Canadian Government Higher Cost of Raw Products May Push Food Prices Higher More Than $19 Million Awarded in Value-Added Grants Industry Presenting Standardized COOL Affidavit to USDA Wheat Sales Top Export News Stronger Dollar Keeps Energy Market Under Pressure Fertilizer Prices Move Higher Again at the Gulf, But Buyers Resist Ending Ethanol Mandates Included as Plank of Republican Platform USDA Ready for More Storms That Are on the Way Novak Chosen as CEO for Pork Board CME, Japanese Exchange Sign Cooperative Venture Change in CRP Contracts Not Out of the Question Next Year CCC Rates Announced for September Corn and Soybean Crop Condition Hurting from Dry Conditions Financial and Commodity Markets in Better Focus Appeals Court Denies Creekstone Request To Test For BSE Meat Production Down Next Year First Finding of Virus in U.S. Honeybees Alternative Fuels Will be an Early Focus of Presidential Race Heavy Selling in the Wheat Pit Soybean Yields Up in the Air Corn Prospects Are Unpredictable Interim Final Rule Amends COOL Labeling Ag Secretary Says Ethanol Mandate Benefits Far Outweigh Negatives Sentencing Delayed as Westland Worker Talks to Investigators Agencies Hold Public Meeting on Farm Bill Renewable Energy Provisions China Cancels Soybean Sales 2008 Food System Summit Scheduled Rule for Disposition of Downer Cattle Announced More than Three-Quarters of Consumers Favor Biodiesel $35 Million in Energy Grants and Loans Announced at Farm Progress Show Coalition Organizes American Ag and Energy Council Other Animal Factors Not Taken Into Account in California Initiative Pork Producers from Canada Have Comments on COOL Brazil Wants Trade Sanctions Up to $4 Billion over Cotton Subsides Canada to Weigh in On COOL Japanese Buy U.S. Barley Strong Ally Egypt is Also Important Trade Partner Ohio State Finds New Method for Producing Hydrogen from Biofuels Survey Shows Farmers Wary of Increasing Corn Acres Animal Feeds Being Developed from Biodiesel Byproduct Soybeans End Up for the Week Despite Disappointing Friday USDA Shows Decline in Cattle Inventories Volatility Running Rampant in Corn Market Wheat Rallies; Then Falls on Friday Rural Utilities and Cooperative Receive Loans for Improvements Officials Meet in Washington to Discuss WTO Poor Crop Pushes Iran to Buy U.S. Wheat Weak Basis Continues to Plague the Grain Market Legislation Would Help Build Midwest Ethanol Pipelines Several Countries Have Recently Opened Borders to U.S. Beef FDA Approves Irradiation for Spinach, Iceberg Lettuce Farm Rally Saturday in Argentina May Lead to Strike Multi-institutional Team Searching for Answers to Colony Collapse Disorder House Energy Debate Impacting Elections Lamy Visits Washington This Week Strong Wheat Sales Top Weekly Report Lower Dairy Sales Expected in 2009 Research Could Develop Real-Time Monitoring For BSE Biofuel Agreement Strengthens Collaboration Between U.S. and China Late Planted Soybeans in Midwest Could Be Hurt By Rust Grassley Defends WTO Compliance of Ethanol Tariff Fay Could Bring Rainfall to Drought Stricken Southeast Despite High Prices Dairy Production Slow to Increase Farm Strike Could Resume in Argentina FDA Extends Comment Period for Cephalosporin Very Little Change This Week for Corn or Soybeans Equine Expert to Talk About Unwanted Horse Problem Another Case of BSE Found in Canada USDA Announces Grants for Rural Cooperative Development Centers Legislation Targets Rail Antitrust Exemptions Proposed Reforms to Endangered Species Act Published BQ 9000-Certified Firms Handle Bulk of Biodiesel Sales Japanese Team Participates in DDGS Pelleting Course First Half of 2008 Sets Record for Beef, Pork Exports Olympics Lower Freight Rates Agency Puts Reclassification Rumor to Rest Lawsuit Against AEB, USDA Based on Inaccurate Information Downward Trend of Farm Products Could Lessen Increase in Food Prices Change in Japanese Diet Has Enhanced U.S. Trade Development Senate Ag to Examine Food, Feed and Fuel Production Buyers Found Bargains in Corn Ahead of USDA Report Next Several Months Weather Predicted to be Neutral COOL Interim Rule Clarified Opinions on Future of Doha Round Diverge Next Year Tight Corn Supply Will Continue to be Problem USDA Projects Higher Yields Corn and Soybean Conditions Improve Despite Slow Development U.S. Beef Sales to Russia Are on the Rise Farm Bill Disaster Program Dependent on Crop Insurance Coverage New Avian Flu Virus Found in Nigeria Nebraska Beef Recalls Beef Due to Possible E. Coli Contamination Haying Now Allowed on CRP Ground August Report More Important Than Usual USDA's Aug. 12 Report to Include Updated Flood Numbers EPA Moves Against Carbofuran EPA Waiver Decision Applauded by Some, Disappoints Others Farm Production Costs Up 9% Natural Gas Prices Dropping, But Ammonia Shooting Up Faster Than Ever Requested Waiver of RFS Denied Strong Week of HRW Sales Lead Active Round of Buying USDA Seeks Comments on Climate Strategic Plan Free Trade Dominates Presidential Meeting in Seoul Sugar Industry Calls USDA Action Premature WTO Explains Doha Round Breakdown Russian, Ukrainian Wheat Harvest Higher; Australia Estimate Also Higher EPA Decision on RFS to Be Announced Ideal July Weather Has Raised Yield Potential According to Survey Midwest Corn and Soybean Crops Making a Comeback Republicans Want House Back in Session Experts Provide Online Presentations on Pork Management Payments for Drought Grazed CRP Acres Reduced Scientists are Gaining Greater Understanding of Avian Influenza Action on Horse Bill Unlikely Bipartisan Group of Senators Hope for Energy Compromise Congress Introduces Bill For Haying and Grazing of CRP Little Impact to Consumers from Mandatory COOL Animal Drug Review Laws Approved $10 Million Given to Cellulosic Biofuel Research Harvard Study Warns Against Rolling Back Incentives for Biofuels Ministers Trying to Salvage What Was Accomplished in Geneva More than $400 Million in Electric Loans Announced Federal Milk Marketing Orders Amended Export Sales Beat Guesses Across the Board Senate Inches Forward but Speculation Bill Still Stalled Mexican Irrigation Water Identified as Source of Salmonella Brazil May Challenge U.S. Ethanol Tariffs Survey Shows Consumers Support Biodiesel Doha Collapse Disappointing; But Better than Bad Deal Farm Bill is Funding Research Initiative for Specialty Crops More Legislation Preventing Horse Slaughter Public Remains Concerned as First U.S. Beef Shipped to South Korea Doha Ministerial Meeting Collapses Cow Power Could Generate Electricity for Millions USDA Releases Interim Final Rule for Mandatory COOL Progress Seen in WTO Meeting Expiring Acres and Improved Weather Prompts USDA to Deny Early Outs Farm Bill Changes Loan Limits for First Time in 24 Years Crop Conditions Overcoming Late Planting Former Ag Secretary is Possible Vice Presidential Candidate DNA Testing Points to Elk as Source of Brucellosis Watershed Program Providing Federal Disaster Assistance More Pasture and High Feed Costs Result in Fewer Cattle in Feedlots Governors Call for Extension of Renewable Energy Credits EPA Delays Ethanol Mandate Decision Chambliss Tells Senate about CFTC Action USDA Renews Funding for Swine Health Research Ministerial Meeting is Lacking Major Progress WTO Meeting Breaks Into Smaller Groups Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Complex Factors Increasing Commodity, Food Prices Higher Acreage and Decent Rain Could Give Australia Record Wheat Crop Producers with Approved Contracts Can Continue Haying and Grazing CRP Drop in Oil Price is Leading the Charge of Potential Changes for Commodities Senate Invokes Cloture on Speculation Bill USDA Provides Over $6 Million for Renewable Energy EPA Delays RFS Waiver Decision Subsidy Cut Met with Many Opinions Bigger Concessions Proposed by EU and U.S. Weekly Financial Review Speculation Legislation May Impact Agriculture High Price of Corn Sweeteners Causing Shift WTO Moves Closer to Completing Doha Soybean Aphids Spotted in Midwest Fewer Cattle and Less Bang for Checkoff Buck Near Record Numbers Seen for All Milk Prices Crucial Meeting in Doha Trade Round Kicks off this Week Senate Committee Approves FMD Bill USDA Seeks Input on BioPreferred Labeling RFS Waiver Unlikely to be Granted USDA and NWF Have Until Tuesday Work out Compromise on CRP Updated Weekly Basis and Transportation Review Schwab Sees Potential for Negotiations Next Week in Geneva University of Georgia Receives Grant to Study Colony Collapse Disorder Schafer Leads Congressional Delegation to Colombia Obama, McCain Address National Farm Bureau Conference Sliding-Scale Tax Voted Down by Argentine Senate Hearing Will Determine if CRP Critical Feed Use Program Moves Forward EQIP and AMA Receive Additional Funding Argentine Senate Vote on Sliding-Scale Tax Will Be Close EPA Proposes Rule to Further Sequestration Corn Belt Likely to Get More Rain This Week Record Keeping for COOL Must Start Immediately New Record Set for Pork Sales, Beef Also Increases Scouting Fields for Disease More Important than Ever Reduce Use of Fuel and Time by Using Smaller Pastures and Frequent Moves WTO Launches World Trade Report EPA Asks For Comments on Greenhouse Gases Dry Weather a Concern in Australian and Argentina Revisions May Help Finish Talks Specialty Crop Research Receives $28.4 Million China's New Affluence Farm Bill: Something for Everyone From Ft. Wayne to Yangling Task Force Appointed to Examine NCBA Governance Structure FMD Legislation Introduced by Senate Mississippi River Opened for Commercial Barge Shipping Complaint Lodged Against USDA Additional Information will Help Consumers Discard Recalled Meats European Commission Being Pressured for Greater Biotech Acceptance CFTC Nominees Confirmed by Senate Ag Committee Hearing on Markets Continue this Week in House Temporary Restraining Order to Stop Haying of CRP Issued USDA Adds Mexican Sweeteners to Reports Grain Tax Upheld by Argentine Court CRP Acres in Flooded Regions Released for Livestock Grazing Revised Ag Text Will be Presented to WTO Court Requires USDA to Accept Public Comments on Opening Border to Canadian Beef Soybean and Corn Development Both Delayed by Weather Advance DCP Payments Being Mailed Unusual Year for Preventative Planting Insurance Group of Eight Open Meeting in Japan Farmers Have Less Time to Signup for DCP Program Review of Futures Markets May Give CFTC More Power NBB Responds to British Newspaper Attack Review of Futures Markets May Give CFTC More Power Is the Doha Round Almost Done? New Cabinet Members Named in South Korea Groups Argue that Injunction Should be Granted in Light of New Evidence Rice and Sweeteners Included in Supply and Demand Report Keenum Tapped for Farm Credit Position Jobe Weighs in on AEI Food versus Fuel Discussion Consumers More Confident in Food Safety Sorghum Checkoff Assessments Started Tuesday E-Coli Controls in Place Midwest is Starting July With Ideal Weather CCC Rates Announced for July Rural Business Grants Awarded Crop Progress Still Delayed by Wet Weather Expectations Were Exceeded in USDA Acreage Report House Ag Leader Urges EPA to Issue RFS Waiver House Passes CFTC Oversight Bill Report Shows Higher Hog Numbers than Expected New Administrator Named for NASS Flooded Farmers May Qualify for Disaster Loans Lamy Encourages WTO Negotiations Effort South Koreans Inspecting Stored U.S. Beef JBS Acquisitions Draw Disapproval of Senate Anti-trust Chair Grassley Critical of GMA Request Made to Divert NAIS Funds into Brucellosis Testing Challenges Could Keep Programs from Quick Implementation Doha Ministerial Meeting Likely in Late July Flood Damage Makes Forecasting Crop Difficult Ag Secretary Asks Cattle Industry to Voluntarily Ban Downers Schafer Announces Direct and Counter Cyclical Payment Sign-Up Beef Headed to South Korea Senate Hears Testimony on Antimicrobial Resistance More Extensive Surveys Planned for July Vote on Energy Bill to Increase CFTC Authority Postponed Cooperation Agreement Signed with Philippines Sign-up Begins for Crop Disaster Program House Ag Committee Eyes Tighter Regs for Energy Markets Collins Says Ethanol Cause of Corn Price Increases Fewer Cattle Being Placed in Feedlots Crop Reports Dominated by Weather BSE Case Found in British Columbia Swine Breeding Herd to Decline Flooding Continues to Limit Ethanol Production Weekend Deal Could Get U.S. Beef Back to South Korea Soon New Council Forms to Support Ag Safety USDA to Enhance Information for June 30 Acreage Report Analyst Predicts Lower Harvested Corn Acres Argentine Wheat Area Falls Meat Industry Reacts to South Korea's New Restrictions Flood Impact Felt Far and Wide Biofuels Under Fire Thanks to Floods Groups Call on EPA to Back Off Renewable Fuels Standard USDA Observes Bioenergy Awareness Days House Overrides Farm Bill Veto...Again Corn Group Picks New Leader Midwest States Seeing Wheat Scab in New Places Australian Ag Minister Tough on Wheat Laws South Korea Leader to Make Another Apology Over U.S. Beef Trade As Waters Recede Worries Over Crop Insurance Rise USDA Considering Added Acreage Report North Dakota Court to Hear Grain Payment Case Officials Look Downstream to Mississippi Corn Growers Say Hypoxia Plan Needs More Information Floods in the North, Drought in the South Argentine Ag Tensions Refuse to Ease Biofuels Production Slowed by Flooding Poll Shows More Than 3 Million Corn Acres Could be Lost Mandates and Tariffs Less a Factor for Commodities than Oil Prices Biotech Opponents Still Active in Europe Worries Over Hedge Positions May Have Buyers Backing Off Mississippi River Locks Closing Because of Flooding Farm Bill Provisions Announced 2008 World Food Prize Given to Dole, McGovern Committee Nominations Needed for County FSA No Renegotiation of South Korean Beef Deal Presidential Race May Hinge on Rural Voters Schafer and Bodman Urge Caution on Biofuels to Senate Energy Chairman Commodity Markets the Focus of New Task Force Drought a Concern in South as Rain Continues in Midwest New Canadian Regulations Tighten Food Claims Coalition Hopes to Convince Congress to Reassess Biofuels EU Approves New Rules for Animal Byproducts Supply and Demand Report Drops Corn Yield USDA Recognizes Corporations Promoting Nutrition USDA Advisory Committee Will Accept Public Comments Another State Attorney General asks for DOJ action. Planting is Beginning to Wrap Up Governors Supporting Ethanol U.S. and World Numbers Come Out Tuesday Voluntary Program is Helping NPPC Conner Expects Another Veto and Override of Farm Bill Farm Bill Re-Vote Passes Senate Credit for Ethanol Blending Viewed in New Terms Food Summit Was Productive Higher Pork Prices Likely Because of Input Costs Doha Round Still Doable Says Lamy New Summary Shows Benefits of CRP Cotton Dispute Not in U.S. Favor APHIS Seeking Comments on Poultry Improvement Plan CFTC Nominees Testify to Senate Ag Committee Major Change in Cotton Price Projections Conference Offers View of New Products from Corn Accepting Tax Rebate May Not Be Best Choice National Pork Board to Meet During World Pork Expo Large World Wheat Harvest Needed Armed with Facts, USDA Ready to Defend Ethanol Trade Watchdog Announces Ag Market Initiatives Schafer Speaks at FAO Food Security Summit Planting Progress Make Large Gains USDA Renews Avian Influenza Research Funding USDA Releases Avian Influenza Genome Sequences Farm Bill and Climate Legislation Up for Senate Argentine Farm Strike Reaches Critical Juncture Record Forecasts Expected for Ag Exports Courts asked to Stop U.S. Beef from Entering South Korea Delegation to FAO will Present Three-Pronged Plan U.S. Beef to South Korea Next Week - Maybe Despite Surplus Supplies Pork Prices Increase USDA to Conduct Survey on Continuing Pork Checkoff Deadline for Disaster Assistance Quickly Approaching WTO Chairman Hopes to Hold Membership Meeting Farm Leaders Defend Ethanol by Talking About Facts; Dispelling Myths New Technology Could Reduce Ethanol Energy Cost by One-Third FDA Will Miss Food Safety Registry Deadline Delays Continue to Stop U.S. Beef from South Korea Cool Weather Continues to Hinder Corn, Beans and Wheat New Farm Bill will be Implemented by USDA CRP Ground Opened for Hay and Forage Talks Continue to Break Down, Argentine Strike May Resume Warmer Temperatures Have Impact on Agriculture Beef Trade with South Korea Faces Further Challenges Morocco and Tunisia Will be Increasing Imports of DDGS Another Break Down in Argentine Farm Talks USDA Report Forecasts Increase in Beef Exports, Reduction in Pork WTO Officials Hope Revised Texts Can Lead to Completion Re-vote on Farm Bill Including Missing Title will be Finished in June Agriculture Highlights White House Celebration of World Trade Week Farm Belt Continues to Get Hit by Unpredictable Weather Feedlots Asked to Waive Rights Veto Overridden by House Tax Credit for Biodiesel Extended Resumption of Argentine Farm Talks Farm Bill Do-over Necessary Due to Clerical Error Farm Bill Vetoed as Expected Producers Should Signup Early for CSP DFA Investigated for Possible Price Manipulation New WTO Negotiating Text Could Speed Up Talks Ban of Downer Cattle Proposed by USDA USDA Seeks Rule to Ban Slaughter of All Non-Ambulatory Animals Comments on RFS Waiver Sought Grain and Food Markets Shouldn't be Effected by Chinese Earthquake Schafer Says Expect a Quick Farm Bill Veto Corn Planting Takes Big Step Forward WTO Releasing Revised Negotiating Texts Agriculture Department of Energy Awards Cellulosic Ethanol Grant Ag Secretary Says Focus Needs to be on Factors That Can Affect Food Prices Feedlots Beginning to Clear Backed Up Inventories USDA Issues Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting Tax Incentive is Extended for Biodiesel Iowa Senator Speaks Out Against Anti-Ethanol Campaign Leadership Tries to Persuade President to Sign Farm Bill Farm Bill Garners more than 80 Votes in Senate U.S. Beef Won't be Headed to South Korea This Week Immigration Raid Nets Nearly 400 USDA Designates Biobased Product Groupings House Passes Farm Bill; Senate Begins Debate Seeking Ultimate Data Protection Signs of a Top from Past Bull Market Rallies New Global Dynamics Affecting Fertilizer Demand Six More Ways to Save on Energy Costs Decision Time for Livestock How to Find Financial Information on Businesses Five Minutes with Pearse Lyons Weather Tight Rope Farm Bill Heads to House Floor Oil Reserve Deposits Temporarily Stopped Wet Fields Less of a Problem than Cooler Temperatures Gemperle Accused of Lying in Press Statement Farm Bill Passes House on Strong Vote Activist Staged Undercover Video Footage Congress Publishes Final Farm Bill Language Corn Planting Makes Big Jump Ag Census Forms Still being Sought NCGA Official Defends Biofuels President Bush is Committed to Veto Farm Bill Slower than Expected Growth in Dairy Industry COOL Implementation Could Benefit from NAIS Details of Farm Bill Reported by Conference Committee Wheat Prices May Not Collapse Under Large Crop Bipartisan Group of Senators Voice Support for Ethanol Schafer Says President Will Veto Farm Bill Negotiators Finish Farm Bill Ethanol Subsidies Scrutinized by Senate Hearing Russia Opening Imports of U.S. Livestock NRCS Extends Sign-up for CSP Approval Granted to Checkoff for Sorghum Nationally Opponents Continue to Play the Blame Game with Ethanol RFS Implications Explored in House Hearing Livestock Markets the New Target of HSUS Mixed Bag in Midwest for Corn Planting Progress Pilgrim Reports Mounting Losses Winter Wheat Crop Saved by Slow Emergence Congress Schedules Hearing on Concentration in Agriculture Challenge of Ag Retailer Merger Resolved Attacks on Ethanol Keep Rolling as Republican Senators Join Assault Pork Purchases Made to Help Industry Border Protection and Ag Inspection Highlight Meeting Connecticut Requests Ethanol Waiver Strike Resumes in Argentina as Negotiations Fail Committee Agrees on Most Major Issues of New Farm Bill Several Factors Are Causing Increased Food Prices President Receives Farm Bill Extension Study Says Biofuels Is Not Causing Grain Shortage Groups Ask State Attorney Generals to Investigate JBS Senate Extends Farm Bill Dairy Disaster Deadline Approaching Committee Makes Changes to Commodity Title Congress Waiting for Scoring of Policy Changes More Rain Predicted for the Midwest Uncertainty Remains for Farm Bill Negotiations Changes for Animal Production Outlined in Final Pew Report More Attacks of Ethanol as Food Prices Rise Analysis of Checkoff Program Begun by Beef Board Appeals Court Rules Against FSA Conference Committee Reschedules Farm Bill Meeting Activist Group Sues FDA Environmental Initiative Launched by Dairy Industry Conference Committee Postpones Meeting until Tuesday Ethanol Exemption Sought by Texas Details of Farm Bill Being Worked On StarLink Testing Guidance Withdrawn Breakthrough on Farm Bill Funding Farm Bill Extension Passes Congress JBS Cleared by Australia to Acquire Tasman USDA Launches Colombian Trade Ticker Final BSE Feed Rule Released USDA Asked to Help Pork Industry USDA Bans AWB from Export Programs U.S. Beef Has Great Opportunity in South Korea Another One-Week Extension is Passed by Senate Break Down of Argentine Farm Negotiations More Delays for WTO Talks Volatility and Convergence in Markets Examined by CFTC Long-Term Extension of Farm Bill Requested Energy Department Grant to Build Cellulosic Biorefinery Ethanol Becoming More Efficient and Environmentally Friendly Canada Cuts Corn, Barley and Oat Acres Wheat Register in Argentina Remains Closed Indefinitely U.S. Beef Ready to Roll Back into South Korea Bullish Numbers in Cattle on Feed Report Extension Granted But Congress Still Has Hard Road Ahead This Year is Critical for Doha Deal Hog Industry Seeing High Production; Low Profits Beef Production Higher than Expected NAIS Business Plan Comment Period Closes Future of Farm Bill Process is Unclear Beef Deal Fully Opens South Korea Market Five Pilgrim Pride Plants Raided by Immigration Hungry Helped by USDA Barter Initiative One-Week Extension of Farm Bill Passes House WTO Projects Slowdown of Global Trade Farm Bill Extended by Senate NAIS Business Plan Strategy Implemented by USDA Major Roadblock for Farm Bill Remains Funding Changes to Temporary Worker Program Recommended by AFBF Another Storm Heads for the Midwest Farm Bill Titles Approved by Conference Committee Wheat Development and Corn Planting Behind Schedule Farm Bill Conference Committee Agrees on Programs Stockyards in South St. Paul Hold Final Sale Halt to U.S.-Korean Beef Talks Asked for by Farm Groups Below Average Wheat Crop Projected for Southern Plains Record-Setting Pace for Ag Exports House Farm Bill Proposal Countered by Senate Rising Food Prices a Result of Oil, Not Corn No Progress in First Farm Bill Conference Committee Meeting Farm Groups are Meeting with Argentine President Colombian Free Trade Agreement Delayed by House Washington Food Summit is Just the Beginning South Korea and U.S. Resume Beef Import Talks JBS Acquisitions Are Still Being Questioned Pelosi Moves to Delay Colombia FTA Vote At Last, Appointment of Farm Bill Conference Committee Short Extension of Farm Bill Not Out of Question Song Tells Story of Farm Bill Struggle Several Ways USDA is Fighting Bovine TB Crop Production Gaining CRP Acres Colombian FTA Addressed by Schafer Issues in Rural America Are Not Red or Blue Increasing Pressure for Farm Bill Decision Colombian FTA goes to Congress Food Safety Summit Comes to Washington Sow Lameness Symposium Held Time is Short For Congress to Complete Bill Changed Meat Inspection Procedures Crop Problems Keep Expanding From Laptop to Lighter-than-Laptop Number One Consumer for U.S. Soybeans is Livestock Industry Farm Bill Framework is in Place Business Plan Proposed for NAIS Grant Given to Cornell to Fight Wheat Disease House Members Join Conservation Groups Against Cutting Farm Bill Conservation Bigger Problems Could Follow Wet Spring Major Problem for Farm Bill Remains Offsets EPA Seeking Comments on Two CAFO Issues Cellulosic Ethanol Conversion Technology Partnership Wheat Exports in Argentina Set to Open Next Week EPA Seeking Input on Higher Blends of Ethanol No Break for South and Midwest Pioneer Releases Information to Advance Corn Research EU Complaint on Beef Hormones Shot Down by WTO Time Article Draws Response from EPIC Rising Pork Output Pressures Prices Merger of CFTC and SEC Proposed Seminar on Swine Disease Draws Crowd in China Let Uncle Sam Help Finance Grain Storage Mechanics of How Options on Futures Work More on Evaluating Family Members Higher Ethanol Blends Likely Ahead Let's Keep First Things First Support for Farm Bill Framework Voiced by Conservation Groups Renewable Energy Pledges Still Being Accepted Hog Numbers Higher than Expected USDA Reports Are Well Off Trade Estimates USGC Promoting DDGS in South Korea Federal Register Publishes Details for CSP U.S., Canada and Mexico Reach Agreement on Cattle Trade Colombia Agreement Headed to the Hill Groups Send Letter to Justice Opposing JBS Packer Deal Wheat Condition in Southern Plains Going Downhill Record Breaking Soybean Crop in Brazil Farm Bill Funding Solution Still Being Sought Large Share of U.S. Biodiesel Production Being Exported Terpstra Nominated as Top U.S. Ag Negotiator Higher Milk Production Expected in 2008 Effect of Feeding DDGs Clarified by Research When Mead E3 Biorefinery Reopens Remains Unclear High Beef Demand Continues Drought Hurting Chinese Crops South Still has to Deal with Flood Waters Pasture Converting To Crops New Information Needed for Pasture Herbicides FFA Provides Funding for Community Service Food Company Chief Bashes Biofuel Supports Food Firms Hedge Costs Soil Maps from NRCS Now Available on the Web Johne's Funding Commitment Renewed Reimbursement Promised to Schools for Recalled Beef Hog Inventory Report Comes Out Next Week USDA Announces Conservation Security Sign-up New Deputy Financial Officer for USDA Named Southern Planting is Advancing Doha Round Continues Forward Administration Position on Farm Bill Outlined by Schafer Comments Sought on Canadian DDGS Feed Rules Soy Harvest Moving Quickly in Brazil Recent Weather Points to Rebound of Australia Wheat Crop Not Too Late for Ag Census Farm Futures Survey Shows Producers Planning to Shift Acres Back to Soybeans Agriculture Celebrated During Ag Week Farm Strike Continues in Argentina NYMEX Acquired by CME Beef Group Reorganizes Staff Farm Bill Extension has Support from Schafer Cancer Claims Livestock Leader Rough Road Ahead for Farm Bill Failures at Westland/Hallmark Admitted by Company President Africa Offers Trade Opportunities Making Renewable Fuels Sustainable New Office Created for Small Meat Plants Southwest Gets Jump on Planting Due to Lack of Rain Extension of Farm Bill is Official Soybean Imports Being Encouraged by China Push for Pay Limits Not Over Yet Midwest Keeps Getting Hit with Storms A Big Issue is Early CRP Release Final Turkey Plant Sold by Pilgrim's Pride Summit to Get Faster Reporting of Food Illnesses Ag Leadership Agree on Extension Deadline is Fast Approaching for Farm Bill Estimates Raised for Brazil Soy Crop Argentine Corn Harvest Delayed by Rain Woody Biomass Projects Receive Grants from USDA Futures, Options Get Makeover Study is Promising for Switchgrass as a Renewable Fuel Cattle Processors Losing Money Took Opportunity to Sell Forecast: Dry in the West, Wet in the East Prospects Are Getting Better for Completing Farm Bill Report Gives Ethanol Industry a Shot in the Arm Farm Income Taking a Hit from Inputs Disaster Assistance for Dairy Producers Finally Available WIREC Dedicated to Increasing Renewable Fuels Globally National Beef Packing Company Being Sold Partial Countercyclical Payments Not an Option Regulation of CAFO Permits May Change Big Boost in Funding for Biomass Research Agriculture's Economic Outlook is Strong According to FAPRI Glyphosate Resistant Sugarbeets Have New Opponent What Would Permanent Law Mean Ground Given in Farm Bill Fight Water Quality Grant Funding Resolution of Farm Bill Financing Remains Unclear Extension of Trade Act Signed Will Global Trade Talks Get Done This Year? Weed Grants Awarded 20 More Secrets of Best Managed Farms March 17 is Deadline for Crop Insurance Wheat Growers Elect Cleavinger President Pilot Program Attempts to Quantify Sustainable Agriculture Ford and John Deere Commit To Using More Soybeans in Production McCain Will Have Uphill Battle According to Political Analyst Acting USDA Chief Economist Gets Appointed Permanently AMI President Testifies on Hallmark/Westland Issues to Senate Subcommittee Schafer: Agriculture's Boom Spearheaded by Trade Rogue Trader Blamed for Huge Swings in Wheat Market 2008 Policy Goals Outlined by NCGA, ASA Andean Trade Act Granted Extension by House Saudi Arabia is Halting Wheat Production New Farm Bill Still Expected by Corn Growers Congress Still Negotiating Farm Bill Number New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta Winter Weather Just Won't Quit The World Needs U.S. Wheat Ethanol Industry Outlook Released Policy Expert Says Hillary Clinton Best for Agriculture Seed May be in Short Supply Doha Will Impact Future Negotiations LMA Asks High Court to Hear Horse Plant's Case Corn Acres Stampede Back to Soybeans Seed Contamination Poses No Risk Prices Should Strengthen Despite Corn Stocks Tightening U.S. Extension Service Extends Its Reach With eXtension Web Portal Good Years Ahead for U.S. Agriculture Distiller Grains Exports Nearly Double Presidential Cabinet Members will Participate in WIREC U.S. Grain Supply is Being Strained by Demand Expect 2008 U.S. Ag Exports to Shatter 2007 Record Advisory Committee Announced by EPA This Week is the Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum Castro Resignation Discussed by NASDA President Senate Receives Counter-offer from House Smithfield Begins Sow Reduction Weather Cycles Could be Responsible for Increased Corn Yield Trends Magellan, Buckeye Partners Studying Midwest Ethanol Pipeline Argentine Crop Yields Down from Dryness Ag Secretary Thanks State Ag Departments Record Number of Hogs Coming From Canada Winter Weather Has Helped Western Water Situation Animal Cruelty Charges Filed Senate Makes Funding Proposal Doubts Raised About Recent Global Warming Studies Retail Beef Prices May Come Down Farm Bill Moving Forward Showcase of Biobased Products Scheduled Finding a Final Number for Funding the Farm Bill House Framework Rejected by Agriculture Groups Winter Weather Could Cause Problems for Wheat USTR Files Appeal to WTO Net Farm Income Will Likely Set Record Soybeans Continue to Stay Strong Korean Beef Trade May Resume Soon House Releases Framework for Farm Bill USDA Releases Advance Copy of 10-Year Projections Renewable Energy Backers Dispute Findings WTO Deadline Approaches for U.S. Appeal Brazil May Extend Wheat Tax Exemption Farm Numbers Shrink as Size Increases New Ag Secretary Talks Better Beef Trade Last Minute Rule Proposed by GIPSA USDA Provides Update on Meat Packing Investigation Second Round of Census Forms to be Mailed Officials Oppose Sugar Proposals NCBA Adopts Policy to Increase Beef Checkoff Three Wheat Exchanges Raise Price Limits — Again Settlement Reached in BSE Lawsuit Cattle Market Will be Dominated in 2008 by Corn Prices Farm Bill Falls Short According to Corn Growers Harkin Pushing Forward With Farm Bill Brazil Cuts Wheat Import Tax Supply-Demand Forecasts Come Out Friday Bush Renews Veto Threat Corn Sales Explode in Argentina Opinion: The Biofuel Smear Campaign Ag Commissioners Meeting Will Focus on Farm Bill Conference Committee Next Stop for Pay Limits President of American Farmland Trust Stepping Down Higher Energy Balance for Biodiesel Disappointment in Proposed Budget Farm Worker Program Changes on the Way Winter Storm Moves Across the U.S. Fuel Quality Standards Met by Biodiesel New Biotech Beans Approved E. coli Vaccine Moves Closer Solution to Energy Independence Is At Local Level Hallmark/Westland Meat Company Suspension Proposed Budget for USDA Released Dairy Herd Hits Growth Spurt in 2008 Producers Helped by Working Groups Conference Members Named for Farm Bill Dairy Disaster Assistance Sign-up Delayed Naturally Raised Comment Period Brucellosis Free Status for U.S. Cattle Herd Fresno County Dairy Finds Bovine TB A Special Tribute to Earl Butz Former Ag Secretary; Purdue Dean Butz Succumbs at 98 Financing Farm Bill is Still the Big Problem Energy From Wind Important to the Future Downturn of Cattle Cycle Census of Agriculture Deadline Fast Approaching Possible Change to Ethanol Tariff Low Linolenic Soybeans Market Expands Farm Bill is First Priority for Schafer Commercial American Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Expanding Loans and Grants Available for Rural Infrastructure Food Safety Oversight Report Charges of Slaughterhouse Cruelty Being Investigated Funding for Cellulosic Ethanol Registries Reopened New Ag Secretary Meets with President Bush Wild Weather Conditions Bring Precipitation Reversal of Packer Price Reporting Ruling Naturally Raised Comment Period Extended Trade Talks Could Get Help from High Food Prices Target Set for WTO Trade Talks Merger Talks Between CME, Nymex Argentine Corn Yields Expected Lower Senate Confirms New Ag Secretary Ethanol May Suffer from Lack of Infrastructure National Farmers Union Urges Action Sign-up for Disaster Payments Conservation Program Offers Alternative Trim Risk of Forward Contracting Corn for Ethanol Moth Eradication Gets Emergency Funding Congenial Hearing for Schafer Not Much Effect from Economic Slowdown for Farm Prices Launch of Egg Web Site U.S. Beef Gains More Market Access Hearing to Confirm Schafer Promise Seen in New Biofuel Process Trade Could Be Compicated by Fire at CBOT Roundup Ready Faces Another Challenge NAFTA Rules Fine As Are Warm Spring Could be in Cards Changes in Minimal Risk Rules U.S. Gets Hit with Freezing Conditions TB Tests Come Back Positive Break is Over; Congress is Back Both Countries Benefit Milk Prices Off Record Pace in 2008 Lows Hold in Early Grain Market Trade Deal in WTO Still Possible Algeria Imports DDGS Acheson's Role Expanded by FDA Rising Food Prices Renewable Energy Conference Attracting Attention Helping Cold Stressed Livestock AgroFresh and Syngenta Form Alliance One Millionth Acre in CREP NPPC and NPB Reach Lease Agreement COOL Supported by AFBF Deadline Passes for EU Response Approval for Cloned Products from FDA Members Appointed to Biomass Advisory Committee New Farm Bureau Leadership Clone Announcement Receives Mixed Reviews Animal Welfare a Heated Issue Andersons Ends New Crop HTA Program Humane Society Joining Forces with Vet Group Canadian Cattle Case Sees Final Brief Filed GMO Disputes Could Escalate Automaker Investing in Ethanol Company Reopening of Key Meat Markets Expected Soon Get Farm Bill Done Quickly Confirmation Hearing for Schafer Scheduled National Pork Board CEO Resigns Delegation Goes to Mexico City on Trade Mission Chemical Standards Undergo a Change Tough Road Ahead for Farm Bill Compromise Will Doha Round Be Completed in 2008? RMA Approves Biotech Yield Endorsement No Delay on EU Cage Ban Friday's Crop Reports Could Have Big Impact Biodiesel Company Goes Belly Up Tornados and Flooding Hit U.S. 'Natural' Definition Not a Priority Extension of Deadline for Scholarship Applications European Trade Mission Biofuel Production to Benefit from E. Coli NGFA Warns Against Grain Standards for Distillers Grains Avian Flu Breakthrough Research on DDGS in Swine Rations Horse Transport Rule Proposed by USDA Administration Could be using Veto Threat for Negotiation Farm Bill Funding Deal Needed Expansion of Disaster Aid in Appropriations Bill WTO Issues New Documents FDA Changes Leadership Merger of Energy Companies Closer NASS Administrator Retires Midwest and West Getting Hit with Bad Weather Dry Weather Ahead? NAFTA Implementation Completed USDA Chief Economist Steps Down Farm Loan Process Simplified Protecting U.S. Agriculture Crops Can Co-Exist for Food and Fuel Rising Retail Beef Prices Review of Soybean Rust Biodiesel Blending Begins in Brazil Less Corn; More Beans in 2008 Success Brings Criticism; Maybe Opportunity Numbers Higher than Expected in Hogs and Pigs Report Congress Makes Move to Secure Fertilizer More Winter Weather Debate Over Food Costs Not Just U.S. Issue Registry Closure Extended in Argentina Look for Census Packets in the Mail Next Week Cattle Inventories at Record High Congress Ag Leaders Confident about Farm Bill Conference Conference Bill Under Fire Funding for Rural Schools and Roads FSA Announces New Director A New Outlook Offers Insight to 2008 Many Hungry Depend on Food Aid Rural Development Initiative Grants Chosen Grants Available for Conservation Innovation Economic Impact Will be Felt from New Energy Bill China Gets New Ag Trade Office Changes to Biotech Alfalfa Regulations U.S. Will Continue to be Hit by Winter Weather Researchers Find New Swine Flu President Signs Energy Bill Anhydrous Could Hit $800 per Ton This Spring Payments for Natural Disasters Begin Animal ID Business Plan Introduced Alberta Finds New BSE Case Brazil-U.S. Cotton Dispute Ruling Announced Energy Bill Headed to President Lease Laws Under Public Comment Energy Bill Signed Management Summit a Big Hit Canada Finds Another BSE Cow U.S. Programs Face New WTO Case Half of Animal Premises in Nebraska Registered Agreement Reached on Energy Loan Guarantee Pilgrim's CEO Suffers Stroke Argentine Corn Boosted by Rain International Fertilizer Prices Rocket Higher Corn Yield Contest Results Arrive Senate Finishes Farm Bill President Signs FTA with Peru Proposed Rule for Naturally Raised Energy Bill Passed by Senate Limits on Farm Payments Rejected Omnibus Spending Bill Needs to Move Forward Request for Additional Aflatoxin Research Funds Farm Bill Debate is Over Cooperation Between U.S and China on Biofuels Subsidy Amendment Votes Scheduled Short-Term Extension to Farm Bill Sought Possible Movement on U.S.-Korea Beef Trade Failure of Grassley-Dorgan Amendment Survey Shows Fall Price Rally Lures More Acres Back to Corn Finally Action on Farm Bill Livestock Suffering from Storms Ban on Pork Plants Lifted by China Combination of Livestock and Ethanol Best for Rural Communities Appeal of Court Case Denied Demand Drives Record Fertilizer Prices Farm Bill Votes Likely U.S. Beef Could Gain Access to Russian Market Farm Bill Debate Finally Underway Senate Stops House-passed Energy Bill More Winter Weather on the Way Dried Distillers Grain May Impact E. coli Report Sees Little Correlation Between Corn and Food Prices Deal Struck by Senate on Farm Bill Senate Cloture Switches U.S. Delegation Discussing Economic Policy in Tokyo House Passes Energy Bill Barge Shortage, Fall Use Limit Spring Anhydrous Summit in Rome on Pesticides Advisory Board Appointed Outlook Murky for Farm Bill Farmers Change Crop Plans over High N Costs Overwhelming Passage of Peru Agreement in Senate Argentina Wheat Registry Stays Closed Beef Plants Being Scrutinized Applications Available for R-Calf Scholarship Peru FTA Has One More Hurdle No Countercyclical Payments Due to High Prices Unclear When Farm Bill Action Will Happen Senate Passes Peru Agreement Congress Returns, Uncertainty Remains More Frost Damage USDA Awards Grants Will You Get Anhydrous This Spring? Communications Director Named at USDA Farm Bill Debate Still Stalled Subsidy Deal Negotiated with China Blame Demand, Overseas Competition for Pricey Anhydrous Extra Meat Testing Concludes Compromise Close on Energy Bill Mato Grosso Soybean Planting Down Australian States Lift Biotech Ban Collins' Retirement Reaction Proposed Milk Rule Comment Period Possible Ethanol Pipeline in Nebraska Dairy Disaster Program Signup Announced Collins Retires from USDA WTO Postpones Overturn of Biotech Ban Potential Deal to Limit Farm Bill Amendments Oklahoma Rancher Resigns as NCBA President-Elect Winter Wheat Suffering from Dry Weather Seed Purchase Decisions Need to be Made with Refuge in Mind Colony Collapse Research Continues Nominations Needed for Disease Advisory Committee Brazil Makes Planting Progress Major Australia Supermarket Chain says 'No' to GMO Joint-Venture Aims for Biodiesel China to Import More Soybean Oil Argentina Concerned by Freeze Capping Farm Subsidies Possibility in Europe Window Still Open for Farm Bill Outreach Grants Awarded by USDA Higher Cost for This Year's Thanksgiving Winter Wheat Crop Conditions Slide Minimal Risk Rule for Canadian Cattle Goes Into Effect Election of FSA County Committees Extension Looked at in House Continued Stall of Farm Bill Worldwide Agriculture Meeting Beef Market Opens Wider to Philippines One-Year Extension of Current Farm Bill Proposed Cloture Vote Falls Short in Senate U.S. EPA Calls for Ag Nominations Vote for Cloture in Senate Japanese Prime Minister Visits Washington Quantity Loss Signup Underway WTO Complaint Against U.S. Compromises on Farm Bill Amendments Finishing Farm Bill Emphasized by Conner A Fertilizer Power Play Ethanol Industry Fights Back New WTO Trade Text Released Long Shot to Complete Energy Bill This Year Winter Wheat Taking a Hit from Drought-Like Conditions Show-Me a World Record Extending Current Farm Bill May Happen Biobased Product Expo Part of Farm Bill Buyout Offer Made to Cagle's Companion Food Safety Initiative Released With Import Safety Plan Farm Bill Goes Nowhere Commodity Prices Affected by Oil Costs Biobased Products Acquisition Procedures Changed Wait for Lock Modernization Ends With Veto Override Changes to USDA Farm Loan Program Peru Free Trade Agreement Receives Positive Reaction Hearing on Meat Recalls WRDA Override Completed by Senate House Passes Peru FTA WTO Has Seen Progress Whole Genome Animal Selection Research Funded by USDA Procedural Debate Stalls Senate High Food Prices Tied to Crop Prices says FAO WRDA Veto Overriden by House Day Two of Farm Debate Dominated by Amendments and Administration Import Safety Group Releases Action Plan Successful Trip to Colombia Debate Finally Begins on Farm Bill Planting Moving Ahead in South America Beef Exports to Middle East Look Promising Farm Bill Taken Up by Senate Expect Vote to Override WRDA Veto More Testing of Canadian Meat and Poultry Imports Ag Secretary Confirmation Pushed to Back Burner Some Progress Made in Beef Trade with Asia Higher Ethanol Blends Requested Time to Vote for FSA Committees Bush Halts WRDA Ag Secretary Position Goes to Ed Schafer Pending Free Trade Agreements Moving Forward Red Meat Targeted by Cancer Report European Commission is Handed Back Biotech Ban Decision Renewable Fuels Have Support of Americans UN Official's Statements Outrage NCGA Schafer Nominated for Secretary of Agriculture Getting Ready to Send Contract Payments for CSP ABARE Makes Official Wheat Estimate Beef Demand High in Spite of Prices Attempt to Limit FSA Closures Census of Agriculture Partnership with FFA UN Official Calls for Halt in Biofuels Production Congressional Delegation Traveling to Columbia Senate Farm Bill Garners Varied Reaction Sneak Peak at U.S. Winter Wheat Conditions Agriculture Committee Passes Farm Bill Committee Mark-up of Farm Bill Has Begun Europe Approves Corn Traits for Import President Must Decide Course of Action on WRDA Groups Agree to Compromise on Interstate Meat Sales Priorities of New Farm Bill Concern ASA Alternative Farm Policy Legislation is 'FRESH' FSIS Being Aggressive Fighting E. Coli Producers Welcoming a Change in the Weather Committee Mark-up won't Include Payment Limitation Amendment Conference on Energy Bill is Getting Closer Drop in Fuel Prices Not Likely Reversal of Corn Shift May Happen in 2008 Grass-Fed Label Standards Released Conner Wants Action on Farm Bill Renewable Fuels Take Center Stage at World Food Prize Senate Farm Bill is Encouraging to Conner Brazilian Soy Crop Estimated as New Record Beginning Farmer Programs Need Goals CRP Back to Production Due to Wheat Prices StarLink Testing May End Safety Approval Granted to E85 Pumps Advisory Committee Gives Agriculture a Voice at EPA Farm Bill Deal Reached 25x'25 Energy Goal Passes House Australian Drought May Result in Early Grain Imports for Cattle Feed Construction Delayed on Minnesota Ethanol Plant Exports of Soybeans Set New Record Oct. 17 is "Commit to Conservation" Call-in Day Carbon Program Enrolls More than 2.5 Million Acres BSE Minimal Risk Rule Gains More Opponents Cornfields Are At Risk From Aflatoxin Japanese Groups Lobby Australian States over Biotech South Korean Beef Trade is Not Progressing Lowered Wheat Stocks Harkin's Delay Defended by Grassley Ag Processors Raises Offer to Acquire AGP U.S. Confident About Doha Invasive Pest Studies to be Funded by USDA. Senate Decision on Peru Will Be Made Soon Expect Fertilizer Costs to Stay High as Natural Gas Prices Go Lower Senate Race Adds Former Agriculture Secretary Water Quality, Quantity Issues Related to Increased Biofuels Missouri Soybean Grower Sets New Soybean Yield Record North Carolina Added to the Rust List Agribusinesses Targeted by Environmental Group Success of Doha May Hinge on Smaller Meetings Review of EPA Dust Rule Requested by Ag Groups New Program Will Find Average Price for E85 Congress Moves to Block Imports of Canadian Cattle Rust Spores Scattered Across Midwest by Weekend Storms Time is Running Out for Australian Wheat Crop Beef Talks Scheduled in Seoul APHIS Biotech Rice Investigation is Concluded Renewable Energy Conference Planning Has Begun New Rust Discoveries Keep Popping Up Farm Bill Delayed But Ag Tax Package Passes Domestic Supports Reported to WTO Johanns Ready for Senate Run Economic Impact of Meat Recall Forces Topps Out of Business U.S. Agriculture May be Vulnerable According to GAO Report Interstate Meat Sales Provision Backed by NASDA and NFU Another Drop in Expectations for Australian Wheat Crop Farm Bill Action in the Senate is Delayed WTO Talks Making Progress Possible Action on Senate Farm Bill U.S. and Canadian Wheat Headed for Iraq China Corn Tour Final Numbers Are As Expected Pork Center Developing Swine Schools Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants Awarded by USDA Construction Halted on Ethanol Plant Meeting to Improve Import Safety Good Conditions in Argentina Aiding Planting Explosion of Soybean Rust Discoveries Climate Change Conference Addressed by President Bush Brazilian Soybean Growers Worried by Lack of Rain It's Congress' Move on Peru FTA No Early Release of CRP Groups Display Different Perspectives on Peru FTA Long-Term Extension of Farm Bill Not Favored by Farm Bureau Lower Production Seen on USGC China Corn Tour Washington Hosts Global Climate Change Conference White House's Move on Peru FTA Expansion Pace is Increased by Pork Producers Mandatory Set-Aside Discontinued by EU Poor Wheat Crop Expected by Australian Ag Minister Soybean Rust Continues to Spread Federal Funding to Improve Food Safety Electric Loans Totaling $223 Million Issued by USDA U.S. Cattle Welcomed Back to Panama Record May Be Set by Brazil's New Soybean Crop Long Road Ahead for WRDA USDA's Priorities Laid Out By Acting Ag Secretary Ramp Up of Chinese Feed Demand WTO Rules on Rice Dispute in Favor of U.S. Senate Committee Passes Peru Trade Agreement Kansas Latest Site of Soybean Rust Confirmation Swift and Positive Reaction Toward Johanns After Resignation National Food Safety Framework Outlined in Harkin Bill Chinese Duty on Soybeans May Be Temporarily Reduced USDA Awards $22.7 Million in Grants U.S. Amenable to WTO Subsidy Cap Safety Net in Farm Bill Extension worries NAWG Farmers Will Benefit From Lower Interest Rates Possible Month Extension on Farm Bill Johanns Running for Senate Seat U.S. Wheat Could Reach New Highs; But Australia is Major Factor Ethanol Has Little To Do With Higher Food Prices Weekend Freeze May Cause Yield Losses Soybean Rust Spreading Farther North and West Than in the Past AWB Faces Class Action Suit GMO-free Regions Ruled Illegal USDA's Minimal Risk BSE Rule Results in Different Opinions Set-aside Reduction in EU Proposed to Boost Grain Production Thirty-three Directors Appointed to United Soybean Board Lower Ethanol Consumtion of Corn Balanced By Export Demand Final BSE Minimal-Risk Rule Released by USDA U.S. Soybean Harvest Off To Slow Start No Comment from Ag Secretary on Possible Senate Run U.S. Korea Making Progress on Beef Trade Issue EU Trade Commissioner Says Doha Must Get Done This Fall Tax Credits May Provide Farm Bill Funds USDA Seeking Comments on Climate Change Report Estimates Released on Australian Wheat Crop Free Trade Agreements Could Increase Exports Faster Better Outlook For This Year's Brazilian Wheat Crop Chinese Government Says It Will Not Interfere With Soybean Imports Winter Wheat Seeding Already Underway in Western Canada Biodiesel Makes Big Jump in Soyoil Consumption Factors May Push Beans Above $10 Biotechnology Issues Addressed in Belgium Bee Disappearance May Be Result of Israeli Virus USDA Begins Countercyclical Payments Feed Grain Exports Impact Record Ag Exports Lamy Says Talks Need Final Push Farmers May Need to Update GPS Equipment WTO Restarts Doha Trade Talks 2008 E85 Compatible Vehicles Announced Commodity Group Lays Out Legislative Priorities Scientists Worry Over Livestock Breed Loss Congress Faces Full Plate as Fall Session Begins NGFA: Release CRP Acres for More Planting Australia Takes Stab at New Single Desk Entity Mark Your Calendar for October 15 for Disaster Payment Sign-up Pressure Mounts on World Stage New Japanese Farm Minister Named Japan's Latest Ag Minister Quits Over Subsidy Scandal India Seeks More Wheat Ag Trade to Set new Records, USDA Says USDA Issues Grants to Promote Rural Development Demerger Idea Dumped by Former Australian Wheat Board Grains Council Tech Tours Promote Biotech, DDGS Corn Growers Remind Farmers to Keep Pressure on Congress Tally of Soybean Rust-Infected Areas Spreads Farm Bill Income Limits Remain a Hot Topic in 2007 Debate Special Report: ID-INFO Expo in Kansas City Report: Beginning Farmers Need Help Farmers Urged to Turn to Biodiesel for Harvest Wheat Buyers Talk About Plans Court Favors Rule 1 on Minimal Risk Standard Ag Secretary Talks Trade at Farm Progress Show The World's Fair of Agriculture Opens Today Making the Farm Bill Debate a Wacky Film Escapade New Survey Shows Fight for Acres Ahead in 2008 Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu Strikes German Farm South Korea Restarts Beef Inspections Biofuel Boom Gets Business Analyst Review Ag Holds Trade Negotiation Key APHIS Tests Radio Tags for Animal ID More U.S. Farm Products to China? Anhydrous Facilities Could Get Help Secretary of Agriculture Travels to Farm Progress Show Next Week Senator Proposes Trust Fund for Conservation Exports of U.S. Soybeans to China Questioned Soy Crop Could be Threatened by Flooding NCGA Backs Durbin-Brown Measure Winter Wheat Acres Could Rise Futures Jump on Export Demand Korea-U.S. Beef Decision Could Come Soon Do Tropical Storms Raise Rust Risk? Suspected Human BSE Case Refuted Rising Prices Give Ag Exports a Boost Iowa Expected to Lead Corn Crop at 2.5 Billion Bushels Ethanol Margins Not Seen Improving Ag Agency Aims to Be Better User of Resources Charity Group Turns Down U.S. Food Aid Watch Out for Early Freeze South Korea Mulls U.S. Beef Imports WTO Leader Speaks on Value of Global Trade Trading Group Sees Drop in Euro Crop Water Experts Warn of Biofuel Side Effects Imminent Immigrant Crackdown Worries Producers Barge Rates Hit Yearly Highs E-85 Pump Certification Moves Forward NCGA: Farm Bill Should Reflect Risks Get a Nutrient Profile Before Feeding DDGs How Can the Farm Bill Help New Farmers? Farm Groups Join Sustainability Initiative Corn Harvest Gets Started in South USDA Relaxes Insurance Rule Watch for Variations in Corn Hybrids Department of Energy Releases 2008 Fuel Projections What's in Store for Wheat in Doha Talks? Foot and Mouth Fears Easing in U.K. Agri-Industry Council Holds First Meeting Soil Erosion Down on Corn Acres Crop Report Forecasts Corn Crop at 13.1 Billion Bushels EPA Decides Against Special Review of Herbicide How Would the U.S. Handle an FMD Outbreak? Consultant Forecasts Big Land Turnover USDA, Angus Association Partner on Animal ID Report: EU Agriculture Outlook Generally Positive Johanns Announces Additional CSP Funding Researchers Track Global Warming's Affects on Corn Belt Japan May Loosen Beef Restrictions Decision Keeps Canadian Barley in Canada Don't Panic about Foot-and-mouth Farm Futures Estimates Record Corn Crop for 2007 Despite Problems Foot and Mouth Hits U.K. House Bill Takes from Oil, Gives to Renewables House Passes WRDA Rust-resistant Soybeans Could be in the Cards 2006 Sees New Highs in Production Costs Beef Talks May Face New Hurdles GAO Report Critiques Animal ID USDA Announces $35 Million for Bovine TB Eradication U.S. and China Discuss Food Safety Divisive Tax Provision Could Appear in Senate Farm Bill Biofuels Draw Investors to Commodities Renewable Fuels Standards Draw Support for Alternative Feedstocks Report: Nation's Estuaries in Danger Congress to Act on WRDA Conference Report Farm Groups React to House Bill Ag Climatologist Predicts Corn Yield Above Trend WTO Ruling Rubs Cotton the Wrong Way Farm Bill Moves Towards Vote Amid Threats Committee to Put Together Final WRDA Bill House Passes Farm Bill Lamy Urges September Negotiations Soybean Rust Could Reach Iowa or Illinois Senate Farm Bill Could Be Divergent Korea to Decide on Bone-in Beef Durbin and Brown Propose Revenue-based Supports Administration Threatens Farm Bill Veto GAO and Senate Find Farm Payment Problems National Corn Yield Contest Deadline Approaches Kind-Flake Bill Draws Fire The Corn Grower's Farm Bill Bill Aims to Boost Local Investment in Ethanol Plants Crop Groups React to House Bill Higher Risks and Costs May Impact Cash Rents Glimmer of Hope Remains for WTO Talks House Ag Committee Passes Farm Bill House Ag Committee Advances COOL Compromise Legislation Funds Biodiesel Education Program Johanns Feeling Better about Farm Bill Fungicides Best Left for Disease Prevention, Researchers Say USDA Looks to Add 100,000 Premises to Animal ID EPA Extends Compliance Deadlines for Feeding Operations 2007 Could Be Largest U.S. Corn Crop Ever Oats in Transition Farm Bill Draft Ups Specialty Crop Funds Johanns Unhappy with House Farm Bill Borlaug Gets Congressional Medal for Work in Agriculture USDA Shifts Import Process for Fruits and Vegetables Ag Committee Mulls $1 Million Eligibility Cap Crop Inspections at U.S. Ports Hits Low $100 Billion Invested in Renewables Globally China Suspends Some U.S. Meats Johanns Takes Issue with Peterson's Bill EPA to Form Ag Advisory Board Study: No-till Can Turn Higher Profits AFBF to Back U.S.-Korea FTA - if Beef Trade Resumes Brazil Joins Canada in WTO Complaint Against U.S. USDA Lowers Winter Wheat Production Forecast APHIS Releases Potential Biotech Regulation Changes Brazil to Join Complaint Against U.S. Subsidies Bill Focuses on Ag Industry Concentration Country-of-origin Labeling Debate Heats Up CBOT Shareholders Approve CME Merger AFBF Says Ethanol Isn't Behind Food Price Hikes Conservation Districts Ask for New Farm Bill Language Report: Global Biofuel Output to Double by 2012 More Food Research Funding Needed, Ag Groups Say APEC Ministers Consider Trade Talks China, Taiwan, Japan Remain Strong Trading Partners for Corn Cattle Producers Oppose Ethanol Mandates Grain Groups Defend Current Standards for Soybeans Johanns Optimistic about Farm Bill, Corn Plantings G10 Countries Call for Wider WTO Ag Talk Participation Panama FTA Could Boost Ag Exports Corn's Days Powering Ethanol Numbered? Full Beef Imports May Be Needed for Korea FTA More Producers Feeding Co-products, Study Finds Wheat Harvest Could Feel Failure of Immigration Bill Lamy: Doha Success Requires Only Small Concessions Peterson to Propose Cuts in Crop Insurance U.S. Beef Returning to China? Corn Plantings Up to 92.9 Million Acres Report: Ag Exports Reach Record in 2006 Johanns Speaks for Trade Promotion Authority OPEC Resists Biofuels, 'NOPEC' Bill Immigration Bill Fails Test Vote Senate Immigration Bill Survives Another Day Chinese Government: Exports are Safe Harkin Calls for Scaled Down Subsidies World Organization for Agriculture Calls for New Approach Jointly Labeled Chemicals Slow to Reach Market South Korea Lifts Meat Plant Suspensions Company to Produce First Synthetic Fuels EU Wrestles with GM Corn Decision Peterson: Don't Expect Payment Limits in Farm Bill Schwab: China Should Make a Move in Trade Talks Bill Would Help Meat Cross State Lines Senate Passes Fuel Efficiency Reform Amendment Senate Passes Energy Bill Thousands of Producers Could Re-Enroll CRP Acres NCGA: Don't Blame U.S. Farm Programs for Doha Failure Senate Energy Bill Moves Forward Schwab and Johanns Disappointed with Doha Progress Report Examines Impacts of Safety Net Tweaks WTO U.S. Subsidy Complaint Delayed Bill Would Fund Renewable Fuels Education EU and OPEC Discuss Biofuels Johanns Unhappy With Subcommittee Subsidy Decision Powerful Lobbies Fight Energy Bill Engineers Challenged for 21st Century Soybean Growers Back Farm Bill Draft House Subcommittee Votes to Renew 2002 Subsidy Program USDA Accepting FSA Candidate Nominations U.S. Food Scientist Wins World Food Prize Bush Ups Immigration Bill Support Ethanol Profits May Shrink on Supply Glut Biodiesel Board Backs Bipartisan Bill Nitrogen Flows from Corn Belt to the Gulf Biodiesel to Get Boost from New Measure Study Points Out Energy Cost Role in Rising Food Prices EPA, Purdue to Study Livestock Emissions U.S. EPA Fires Up New Web Site with Ag-Related Regulations Conservation Technologies Get a Boost Energy Bill Gets Groups' Support Japan Loosens Inspection Rules for U.S. Beef Grain Market Volatility to Continue Subsidy Database Back, Bigger Than Ever USDA, DOE Announce Biomass Research Support Egypt Rejects Wheat Shipment Ag Secretary Wants Program Changes Biofuels Blamed for Rising Food Prices Beef Recall Grows to 5.7 Million Pounds Analysts Weigh in About Argentine Wheat GAO Report Says DOE not Ready for Biofuels Organic 'Exceptions' Worry Enthusiasts Immigration Bill Fails to Muster Support in Senate Canada Drops Allegations Against U.S. Corn GAO Recommends Crop Insurance Change in Farm Bill House Committee Hears Concerns of Small Farms International Monetary Fund President: G8 Should Open Ag Markets Farm Bill Moves Forward in House EPA Seeks Farmer Input Rahall Energy Bill Becoming Contentious Issue NCGA: U.S., Brazil Share Ethanol Interests Korea Beef Ban Lightened Will 2007 Farm Bill Include Direct Payments? Report Reviews Ethanol's Impacts U.S. Growers Criticize Doha "Challenge Paper" U.S. and China to Develop Non-Grain Biofuels Meeting of Americas Likely to Include Energy Discussions South Korea Bans U.S. Beef Again Scientists Work on First U.S.-produced FMD Vaccine Cattle Groups React to Beef Merger NCGA Finds Fault in Clean Water Act Legislation Department of Justice Approves Cotton Acquisition Feed Recalled Due to Melamine ICE Says It Has Entered Agreement with CBOT Former Senators Dole and Daschle: Eliminate Direct Payments Weather Gives Spring Wheat a Boost USDA to Appeal Voluntary BSE Testing Decision Chinese Deflect Blame in Melamine Incident Japan's Ag Minister Commits Suicide Senate Bill Provides Support for Cellulosic Ethanol Acquisition to Create World's Largest Beef Processor S. Korea Ready to Discuss Full Beef Imports Will President Sign Ag Disaster Aid? U.S. and China Meet on Food Safety Measures U.S.-S. Korea Free Trade Agreement Biggest Ever for Pork House Subcommittee Releases Draft Dairy Bill House Votes to Allow U.S. to Sue OPEC Biotech Group Takes Steps to Minimize Trade Disruptions Ag Workers Program Figures into Immigration Reform Cattle Groups Respond to OIE Decision Farm Bill Draft Gets Conservation, Energy Amendments NCGA: DDGS Market Gaining Structure R-CALF, Others to Congress: Fund COOL Avian Flu May Be Nearing End of Natural Cycle OIE Classifies U.S. as 'Controlled Risk' for BSE Money Shifts in Farm Bill Conservation Title Producers Say Feedstocks Limit Biofuel Capacity Legislators Introduce 'Other' Farm Bills South Korean Parliament Looks to Tighten Beef Safety House Ag Committee Adopts 25x'25 Resolution USDA Releases Poultry from Quarantine New Bill Aims to Help Beginning Farmers Grain Transportation Changing with Expansion of Ethanol Industry WRDA Moves Forward Korea Finding No Fault in U.S. Beef Shipments USDA to Release Swine from Quarantine Senators Introduce Farm-to-Fuel Investment Act Federal Agencies to Work on Lowering Vehicle Emissions Wheat Growers Happy with Food Aid Policy Congressional Deal May Allow for Bilateral Trade Agreements Panama Canal Shipping Charges Increase Ethanol Producers' Earnings Come Up Short Johanns Announces New Doha Negotiator Johanns Outlines Trade Proposals for Farm Bill Japan Defends Restrictions on U.S. Beef Asian Soybean Rust Strikes Early in Deep South Schwab: Market Access Is Key to Doha Legislators Consider Separate Ag Disaster Aid Bill Storms Slow Down Barge and Rail Routes USDA and EPA Cooperate for Chesapeake Bay Watershed Cleanup Delays in Western Corn Belt Plantings a Concern Brazil Corn Crop Expected to Top Records Developing Countries See Imbalance WTO Ag Proposals U.S.-Mexico Committee Meets on Agriculture USDA Specialty Crops Proposal Focuses on Research and Development 1,200th E85 Location Opens USDA Begins to Release Swine and Poultry from Quarantine Could Organic Ag Help Feed Africa? Justice Department Clears Meat Merger UN Panel: Cost of Combating Global Warming Manageable Court Rules Against USDA in Alfalfa Case Pilot Projects Bode Well for National Animal ID GAO: Crop Insurance Program Still Vulnerable BSE Found in Canada Renewable Fuels Legislations Moves on in Senate Railroad Companies to Refuse New-Tech Corn House Holds Crop Insurance Hearings Korean Customers Begin Buying U.S. Beef this Week Administration Takes Issue With Disaster Aid Add-ons Web Sites Help Motorists Locate E85 Stations USDA and FDA Trace Melamine to Poultry Feed Minneapolis Grain Exchange Sets Monthly Volume Record EU Looks to Institute Environmental Certification for Biofuel Imports NRCS Presents Excellence in Conservation Award GAO: Food Safety Oversight Needs Work USDA and FDA: Likeliness of Illness from Eating Pork Very Low Oilseed Processor Loses on Soy Futures South Korea Accepts U.S. Beef Shipment FDA and USDA: Thousands of Swine Ate Contaminated Feed House Passes Spending Bill Fungus May Be Linked to Bee Colony Collapses Peterson: Keep Money in Commodity Title FDA to Begin Testing for Melamine FAO: Rural Development Could Benefit from Bioenergy Groups Back Durbin for Sugar Reform Lamy: U.S. Needs to Do Its Part for Doha Johanns Declares Progress in U.S.-Japan Beef Talks AFBF Recommends Continued Safety Net U.S. and Japan Still Deadlocked on Beef USDA Database Leaks 38,700 Individuals' Data Freeze Damage to Wheat May Prompt Replanting Democrats Receive More Contributions from Agricultural Groups Wheat Industry Gathers for Summit WRDA Easily Wins House Vote Farmers Taking Advantage of CSP Administration Calls for WRDA Rejection Farm Disaster Aid Faces Veto Threat Panel Says Organic Label Should Not Include Clones USDA Says Conservation Title Due in Congress 'Next Week' Lamy Optimistic About Agriculture Negotiations U.S. Food Aid Program Needs Boost, GAO Says U.S. Farmers Target Australian Wheat Seller with Lawsuit Johanns: Remember WTO in Farm Bill Venture Gets Tax Break to Produce Biodiesel from Animals Fats Johanns Outlines Proposals to Help Beginning Farmers Groups Look into Habitat Credit Trading Study: Agricultural Concentration Increasing USDA Announces $12.8 Million for Rural Development Amazon Soy Port Reopens CBOT to Host Ethanol Futures Seminars Major WTO Players Set December Doha Deadline EPA Issues New Ethanol Emissions Rule Meeting on CME-CBOT Merger Delayed Chavez Threatens to Block U.S.-Brazil Ethanol Deal WTO: Economic Expansion of 2006 Likely to Slow This Year Ag Policy Group Criticizes USDA Farm Bill Proposal USDA Aims to Streamline Conservation Programs EPA Signs Renewable Fuels Standard Corn Demand Could Further Trim Durum Supply Cuba, Venezuela Object to U.S. Biofuel Support Legislators Are Remembering Biodiesel Russia Places Partial Ban on Meat Imports Cold Weather Could Impact Corn Acres Japan Halts Imports from Third U.S. Meat Plant Freeze a Concern for U.S. Wheat Indy Racers to Talk Ethanol at National Press Event Johanns Calls for More Efficient Rural Development Johanns Expresses Support for U.S.-Korea Trade Deal U.S. Producers Eye New Markets in South Korea Maize Genetics Conference Shows Scientists Are Cooperating Wheat Farmers Watch the Weather NCGA: Over 17 Million Tons of DDGS Likely in 2007/08 2007 Could Be a Rough Year for Hurricanes National Security Rule May Impact Pesticides and Fertilizers Europe Reaps Benefits from Bt Corn, Study Says FAO Warns of Continuing Bird Flu Threat FSIS Suspends 'Limited' and 'Minimal' Inspection Trade Deal Hinges on Beef Johanns: USDA Not Lifting CRP Release Penalties U.S. and South Korea Agree to Trade Deal Cloning Comment Period Extended WRDA Moves Out of Committee in Senate Judge Rules in Favor of Private BSE Testing USDA Report: Corn Acreage to Top 90 Million Congresswoman Challenges USDA Risk-based Meat Inspection ASA Outlines Farm Bill Safety Net Ideas to Congress CBOT to Launch Smaller Ag Contracts Electronically NCGA Outlines Farm Bill Proposal to House Committee Pew Initiative and APHIS Discuss Biotech Regulation Will Biofuel Drive Up Food Prices? President Bush Speaks at NCBA Conference Bush Boasts of Biofuel's Benefits No-till Corn Acreage Increasing Bush, Automakers Back E85 U.S.-South Korea Trade Talks Near Deadline NCGA: Biotech Trait not Approved in Japan USDA Awards $5 Million for Ag Air Quality Farm Credit Set to Meet with Congress Johanns Outlines Nutrition Goals Brazil Shuts Down Amazon Soy Port USDA Identifies GMO in Contaminated Rice Senate Committee Approves Disaster Aid, MILC Extension NCGA Pushes Congress to Fund Research New Line of Durum to Help Scab Resistance Research Johanns Outlines USDA Renewable Energy Proposals House Subcommittee Discusses Future of Rural Development House Dems Add Farm Aid to Iraq Funding Bill New Food Industry Group to Address Consumer Skepticism Developing Countries Discuss Free Trade Senators Propose $250,000 Farm Payment Cap Johanns Announces Grants for Woody Biomass Projects EU Removes Five GM Corn and Rapeseed Varieties Legislation Adopts Energy Independence Proposals Study: Global Warming Is Damaging Yields ICE Attempts to Buy CBOT EAT Healthy America Act Draws Support New Barley Varieties Resist Aphids U.S. and South Korea Talk Beef Switchgrass: Ideal for Biofuel? Harkin Calls on USDA to Modify Crop Insurance Harkin Looks for More Farm Bill Money Soybean Farmers Talk Biodiesel in D.C. Mexico Closes Border to U.S. GM Rice FAPRI Expects Bioenergy Profits to Fade Hard Red Wheat Dormancy Coming to a Close Commission Favors Suspension of California GM Rice Test Plots WRDA on the Move in Congress CME and CBOT Working on Merger NCGA Plugs Proposal at Farm Bill Forum Government Ups Bird Flu Measures Bill Encourages Fishery Development Indonesia and Brazil to Sign Agribusiness and Biofuel Agreement Aflatoxin Research Progresses Johanns Signs Assistance Agreement with FAO Farm Futures Survey Projects Highest Corn Plantings Since 1946 Soybean Rust Found in Iowa Bin Glyphosate Resistance Makes Volunteer Corn Control Tougher FDA Calls for Better Fruit and Vegetable Safety U.S. and Brazil to Cooperate on Ethanol WTO and EU Leadership Speak on Doha E85 Report Returns Positive Results Online Tool Provides Sustainability and Management Help GAO Report: Congress Plays Crucial Doha Role Legislators Introduce Bill to Exempt Manure from Superfund Europe Aims for 20 x '20 on Two Counts Pork Producers Worry About Ethanol Expansion Research Has Implications for Antibiotic Use in Poultry USDA Economist Sees Positive Global Picture CRP Enrollment Remains Steady EU Commissioner Wants Better WTO Offers from U.S. and India Brazil Looking for Lower U.S. Ethanol Tariff U.S. and Mexico Renew Consultative Committee on Agriculture NCGA Supports Revenue-based Safety Net Rice Found with Biotech Content FAPRI Predicts 86.7 Million Corn Acres 2006 Ethanol Production Reaches 4.86 Billion Gallons Soy Yields Boom in Brazil Study Says Biotech Crops Help Environment USDA Updates Corn and Soy Forecasts FDA May Be Poised to Approve Cefquinome U.S. Could Get BSE Classification Upgrade Soy Leaders Roll Out Vision for 2020 USDA Explains Proposed Adjusted Gross Income Cap Trade Ambassador Outlines Priorities Harkin Backs 25x'25 Action Plan New USDA Ag Export Estimate: $78 Billion Computer Problems Plague Farm Services Agency Offices Corn Growers Consider Market-based Target Price DOE to Invest $385 Million in Biorefineries Stenholm: Adjusted Gross Income Test Will Be Tough to Implement AFBF Corn for Ethanol Projections Higher than USDA's 25 X '25 Plan Presented to Congress CWB Analyst Projects Wheat Production Jump NCGA Announces DDGS Report APHIS Delays Fees for Canadian Produce Doane Survey Estimates Corn at 89.8 Million Acres USDA, FDA Schedule Public Meeting on Food Additives WTO Director Urges Speedier Bilateral Talks NCGA to Release New Publication at Commodity Classic IGC World Wheat Projection Up Barge Traffic Picks Up Corn Growers File Antitrust Suit USDA Establishes Meat Inspection Timeline CME Announces Electronic Hog and Cattle Trading Federal Renewable Energy Standard Gains Momentum Senators Vow to Defend Farm Subsidies Against Cuts Biofuels Expansion is Transforming Livestock Industry U.S. Unsure About Beef Age Violation in Shipment to Japan Soy Meal Picks Up Aquaculture Market U.S. Getting More Oil from Africa than Middle East FFA Encourages Conservation Service Analysts Differ on Corn and Ethanol Projections Farmland Prices Climb with Corn U.S. Red Meat Exports Up in 2006 USDA Wants Beef Talks with Japan New Meat Inspection Rules to Be Risk-Based EU to Cut CO2 Emission 20% by 2020 Bill Seeks to Expand Ag Trade with Cuba USDA Releases Livestock Report Flinchbaugh: Trade Deal Is 'This Close to a Breakthrough' Year's First Soybean Rust Appears Legislation Calls for Consolidated Food Safety Agency House Ag and Budget Committee Members Talk Farm Bill College Students to Attend USDA Forum Johanns Sees Viable Cellulosic Ethanol on Horizon USDA Projections Show Strong Farm Economy House Ag Committee Discusses USDA Farm Bill Proposals USDA Predicts Long-Term Corn Crop Expansion USGC, NCGA: Tortilla Prices Due to Supply, Not Ethanol U.S. and South Korea Continue Free Trade Talks Record Corn Crops Possible in South America Grassley Predicts Lower Farm Bill Spending in 2007 Schwab Lobbies for Bush Trade Authority European Community Pushes for 'Doha Friendly' Farm Bill New Bill Would Limit Antibiotic Use NASA Warns of Drier Times Ahead House Approves Renewable Fuels Bill EU Ag Commissioner Visits Washington Soybean Growers Make Farm Bill Recommendations Effort Aims to Push Ethanol Use in the Americas U.S.-South Korea Beef Talks Fall Short U.S. Cattle Groups React to BSE Case in Canada League of Rural Voters Unhappy With Budget Proposal CRP Decision to Come by Summer Administration Looks to Add Barge User Fee U.S., South Korea Meet on Beef Imports Officials Confirm BSE in Canada How Will the Farm Bill Address Food vs. Fuel? Greenpeace Brings Petition Against GM Products in EU Crop Organizations Concerned about USDA Budget Request France Resists U.S.-EU Ag Trade Concessions European Commission Protests Bird Flu Trade Bans WTO Agricultural Committee to Meet Informally Groups React to USDA Budget Request U.S. and South Korea Finally Meet on Beef NCBA Holds Annual Meeting Johanns Outlines USDA '08 Budget Request Bird Flu Hits Europe's Largest Turkey Producer Aphid Population Likely to Boom House Panel Approves Biofuels Bill Crop Insurance Premiums Likely to Rise in 2007 UN Panel Predicts Worsening Climate Problems Farm Bill Booster Talks to Cattle Producers Farm Groups React to USDA Farm Bill Proposal Second Producer to Phase Out Sow Gestation Stalls Energy Experts Call for Ethanol Subsidy Restructuring Yale Study Supports Virus as Encephalopathy Cause Schwab Sees No Imminent WTO Deal Schwab to Give Keynote Address at Commodity Classic USDA Announces Farm Bill Proposals EPA Releases Atrazine Watershed Monitoring Information RFA Testifies in Support of Fuels Infrastructure Bill Johanns Announces $6.4 Million for Rural Development Soy Checkoff, USDA Partner to Watch for Soybean Rust R-CALF Urges Market Competition Reform Iowa Farm Progress Show Location Announced WTO Talks to Resume Without New Offers Veal Company to Eliminate Tethering Clone Labeling Debate Heats Up South Korea to Discuss U.S. Beef Next Month Farm Futures Survey Confirms Acreage Shift Study: Crop Insurance Premiums and Coverage to Rise Senate Ag Chair Testifies on Conservation Programs Beef Checkoff Support Evident in Gallup Poll Hungary Confirms H5N1 Avian Flu Schwab Looks to Advance Doha Round Renewable Fuels Association Poll Shows Ethanol Support Groups, Legislators React to Bush's Energy Proposal Bush's Energy Proposal Requires Cellulosic Ethanol Development USDA to Propose $1.6 Billion for Renewable Energy Bush Calls for Lower Gasoline Consumption New Survey Shows Drivers Uneducated on Biofuels U.S. and EU Trade Talks Have Doha Implications Alternative Fuels Becoming More Cost-Competitive Market Forecast Has Wind Power Increasing 26% in 2007 New Alliance Weighs in on Farm Bill Program Researches Soy Benefits for Human Health Meat Export Federation Explores Russian Beef Market Informa Forecasts Corn Up Over 7 Million Acres European Farmers Receive $143 Per Acre for 'Energy' Crops NCGA Testifies Against Proposed Railroad Rules NCGA Downplays Concerns About Potential Corn Shortages Soybean Rust May Be a Bigger Problem in 2007 Biotech Crop Area Surpasses 100 Million Hectares Energy Investor Forecasts Rise in Cellulosic Ethanol Producers to Plant Record Soy Crop in Argentina NRCS Releases Soil Erosion Results Ethanol Council Says Corn Prices Will Adjust Thailand and Japan Confirm Avian Flu Outbreaks GAO Recommends EQIP and CSP Improvements Group Calls for Competition Title in Farm Bill U.S. and South Korea Talk Trade Japan May Back Off of Beef Import Inspections Australia Single-Desk Wheat Moves Still Questioned Farmers Union Presses Congress on COOL Doha Revival Appearing Less Likely in 2007 California's Emissions Plan Will Boost Ethanol Demand E85 Vehicles Headline Detroit Auto Show FDA Proposes BSE Safeguard in Medicines Taco John's Outbreak Matches California Samples South Korea and U.S. to Discuss Trade Senate Ag Committee Hears of Ethanol Benefits Representative Urges FDA to Reject Animal Drug USDA Secretary Calls for Farm Policy Changes Senators Introduce Permanent Disaster Aid Bill USDA Endorses Voluntary Radio Technology Animal ID System Animal ID Chief Requests Participation U.S. Ag Trade Rep Says Exports Key Canada Requests WTO Meeting with U.S. Peterson and Johanns Differ on Farm Bill Cattlemen Set Up Fund in Response to Blizzards American Farm Bureau Federation Focuses on Farm Bill How Will Ethanol Growth Affect Rural America? Company Announces Plans for New Ethanol Plants European Commission President and Bush to Discuss Doha Harkin Introduces Biofuels Bill APHIS Proposes Expanded Bovine Imports Think Tank Warns of Low Ethanol Demand Estimates First Day of Congress Sees Biodiesel Tax Incentive Introduced Firms Double Investments in Energy Ventures Study Finds Antibiotics Not Economical in Poultry Federal Aid Arrives in High Plains BSE Announcement May Have Hurt Domestic Beef Sales NCGA Sponsors Distillers Grains Seminar Haylift Saves Stranded Cattle Shipping Traffic Declines on Missouri River Operating Cost Estimates Climb for Crops Congress Extends Wind Tax Credit CBOT Sets Volume Record in 2006 Cattle Engineered to be Prion Free Get USDA Scrutiny Soybean Farmers Support Animal Agriculture FDA Cloning Report Draws Varying Reactions Ethanol May Push Corn onto Wheat Acres Biodiesel Helps Soyoil Drive Soy Futures U.S. Hog Inventory Creeps Higher Senator Brings Attention to Ag Market Competition Cash Rent Rises Some with Corn Prices Cloned Livestock Products Safe to Eat, FDA Says Dems Aim to Fund Renewable Fuels with Oil Money U.S. Organic Production Continues to Increase Sugar Program Factors into Farm Bill Several Remaining Bills Become Laws AWB Says Competitive Contracts Won't Hinder Pool Returns Australian State Moves Forward with Biotech Wheat Report Shows Soybean Growers Boost Production, Maintain Quality USDA Cattle on Feed Report Shouldn't Affect Markets Technical Ag Trade Expert to Leave U.S. Trade Rep's Office Soy Exports Top 1 Billion Bushels South Korea Rejects Another Beef Shipment Food Industry Move Away from Trans Fats is Soybean Opportunity Wheat Group Gets Tax Victory Minneapolis Company Involved in AWB Fallout Trans Fat Gets More Attention U.S. and Panama Reach Free Trade Agreement Argentina to Make Record Soy Planting Harkin Takes Issue with South Korea Beef Rules Johanns Proposes Debarment of AWB Farm Bill Takes Center Stage at Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Judicial Panel Combines Biotech Rice Lawsuits Group Calls for Changes in Farm Subsidies USDA Makes Subsidy Payment Information Public Researchers Find Wetlands Beneficial on Hog Farms NCBA Challenges EPA Standards on Ranches Soy Checkoff Helps Introduce 22 New Soy Products France Investigates Death of 4,000 Chickens Water Transportation Groups to Merge New Ideas Emerge for Produce Safety Cattle Group Supports Brucellosis Surveillance Program NCGA Announces Corn Yield Winners Group Says Biofuels Crucial to U.S. Energy Security U.S. Universities to Help Iraq Agriculture Ethanol Imports Continue Decline Firm Forecasts High Corn, Low Soy Acreage Summit Tackles Top Business Topics E. coli Likely Came from Lettuce Republicans, Democrats Agree on Ethanol U.S. Soybean Producers Eye Indian Market Onions Probably Not E. coli Source Farm Futures Summit Off to Solid Start NCGA Says Growers Are Meeting Corn Demand Follow-up Scallion Tests Negative for E. coli Report Says Ethanol Growth Will Redirect Corn from Exports USDA Raises Rice Export Forecast Corn Growers Applaud Congress' Final Measures New Farm Bill May Include Lower Commodity Support E. coli Outbreak May Hurt California Produce - Again Senate Bill Asks for AWB Inquiry USDA Announces 2007 Outlook Forum $81 Million Drought Program Heads to White House E. coli Source Still Unconfirmed Corn Harvest About 97% Finished in Top States BIO Report Supports Biomass for Renewable Energy Congress Can't Manage WRDA Compromise Russia Imposes Temporary Rice Ban Grain Demand Should Bring '07 Profits Johanns Unhappy With South Korea Beef Rejections Web Tool Shows Local E-85 Prices Ag Disaster Aid Comes Up Short Senators Set for Ag Disaster Battle Trans Fat Ban Passes in New York Australian Government Undermines AWB's Monopoly NCGA Hails Progress of Corn Genome Mapping Project U.S. Ethanol Demand Boosts Brazil Corn USDA Proposes Less Dairy in WIC Program Johanns Presses for Free and Fair Trade U.S. Wheat Issues Response to Cole Inquiry CBOT Breaks Monthly Volume Records Harkin to Push for Farm Bill Reforms AWB Problem Doesn't End With Split Corn Farmers Face Risks in 2007 Purdue Ag Economist Predicts Policy Shifts Analyst Predicts 16M Tons Biodiesel Output by 2009 FAO Criticizes Livestock's Impact on the Environment AWB to Split into Two Companies Report Highlights Ag Biotech Regulations Animal ID Program to Remain Voluntary Corn and Pork Groups Discuss Distillers Grains U.S. May Take Action Against AWB U.S. Looking for More Canadian Beef Panel Finds Australian Wheat Company Bribed Hussein's Government Wheat Gene May Provide Better Nutrition for Children IGC Wheat Output Forecast Up, Corn Down Congressional Delegation Goes to South America Food and Fuel Prices Affordable This Thanksgiving Australian Wheat Single-Desk Trade May See Change WTO Chief Pushes Relaunch of Trade Negotiations EU Decides Not to Appeal WTO Biotech Ruling Russia Warns of Ban on EU Animal Products Doha Buzz Building Study Says Farms Should Ready for Cellulosic Ethanol Argentine Suspension May Increase U.S. Corn Demand Ethanol Education Increases Consumer Interest Bush Endorses Biofuel Development in Indonesia FDA Cloning Report Draft Coming Soon Johanns Hopes to Advance Trade in India U.S. Beef Returns to Russia Poll Shows Public Concern for Food Safety Argentina Temporarily Closes Grain and Oilseed Registry Biofuel Revolution May Not Save Doha Round Microorganisms Benefit Pigs in Studies Farm Disaster Aid Goes to Vote Dec. 5 Johanns Goes to India to Talk Trade USDA Pushes Back Exemption Removal for Canada Inspections Price Rally Spurs More Wheat Acres Report Says 25X'25 Goals Attainable, Cost-effective Johanns Confident in Corn Production Feds Make Ag Appointments USDA to Spend $200 Million Promoting U.S. Ag Renewable Fuels Moving Forward in U.S. and Overseas Biodiesel Board Says Industry Will Add $24 Billion to Economy FFA Operation Undergoes $3.5 Million Expansion Transportation Industry Trying to Keep Up with Biofuel Japan Confirms 30th Case of BSE Russia Removes Meat Trade Obstacles with U.S. U.S. and EU Discuss Transatlantic Economy Brazil Says It Will Import U.S. Wheat USDA Issues Mixed Review of S. Korea Beef Policy WTO Releases Trade Development Update Report Looks at Effects of Eliminating Planting Restrictions New Congress Won't Change Corn Growers' Strategies Japan Halts Beef Imports from U.S. Company Reports Predict Corn Acreage and Price Increases Australia's Drought Worst in a Millennium How Will a Democratic Congress Deal with Agriculture? New Method Makes Biofuels without Fossil Fuels Economist Predicts Boom in U.S. Corn Acreage CBOT Bests Annual Trading Volume Record Climate Change to Worsen World Food Supply CBOT Approves Over-the-Counter Ethanol Contracts NCGA Pushes for WRDA Passage Commodity Classic to be Held in Tampa Company Plans to Use Ethanol Byproduct for Biodiesel Johanns Looking for Better Ag Trade with India USDA Applauds U.S. Beef's Return to Colombia and Peru Trucking Company Helps Biodiesel Research Lamy Says Agriculture Might Bring Down Doha Beef Company Argues USDA Exceeding Authority E85 Meetings Will Gather Feedback on Authorization Issues USDA Forest Service Undergoes Centralization Reverse Auction Pilot Program Saves Money AGR-Lite Insurance Expands to New States Produce Trade Group Acts to Make Spinach Safer Biodiesel Product Available for Heating Homes Investigation Finds Seventh TB Herd in Minnesota Lamy Calls for Domestic Changes to Help Developing Markets Soybean Weed Could Be Biodiesel Resource Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Begins in Midwest Analysts Predict Heavy Soybean Deliveries Against CBOT NCGA Comments on Risk Management Agency Direction State Initiatives Promote Clean Fuels EPIC Develops Online Ethanol Course First Closed-Loop Ethanol Plant Set to Open African Union Asks Developed Nations to Restart Doha U.S. Beef Returns to South Korea Ohio Avian Flu Tests Show No Virus Africa Seeks Ag Trade Partners More Sources Found in E. coli Outbreak Investigation Rural Voters Lean Left in New Poll Ag Secretary Promises Specific Farm Bill Recommendations Soon Report Questions Cost of Subsidizing Biofuels EPA Head Stresses Cooperation with Agriculture Auditors Find Flaws in USDA Hurricane Aid Johanns Voices Support for Ethanol Technology Project Aims to Bring Carbon Credit Trading to Undeveloped Countries Germany Donates ‚¬300,000 for Sanitary Help in Developing Countries Japan to Price Wheat According to Market Canadian Oats May Go to EU, Australia Soybean Research Takes On Drought National Corn Growers Association Offers Revenue Ideas for New Farm Bill Group Claims OPEC Manages Oil Prices Against Renewable Fuel Competition Panama Canal Expansion Will Affect U.S. Ag Exports EU Tests May Stifle U.S. Rice Imports EU Finds Another Unapproved Type of Rice China's Soybean Import to Rise U.S. Ag Trade with Cuba Works Around Restrictions EU Readies for Mandatory Testing of U.S. Rice Imports Higher Corn Prices Equal Higher Livestock Prices EPA Won't Regulate Farm Dust Symposium Brings Attention to Pollinator Decline China Grain Trader May Export More Wheat and Corn Survey Finds Americans Support Pro-Biofuel Policy Asian Soybean Rust Reappears in Missouri $8 Billion Exchange Merger to Create a Giant U.S. Farmers Team with Argentines to Market Soy in India Ethanol Influencing Corn Carryover Estimate CBOT Merges with CME Completed USDA Tests Show Low Path Avian Flu USDA Reports on Cotton and Peanuts Iowa Farm to Host EPA Administrator Wednesday CBOT Ag Complex Breaks Record - Again Argentina Wheat Trading Halts President Talks Bioenergy at St. Louis Conference Lab Results Connect Bacteria in Cattle Feces with Spinach Outbreak USDA and EPA Give Farmers Water Quality Incentives Illinois Extension Says Soy Rust Not a Major Concern Energy Department to Make Major Investment in Bioenergy Centers Alternative Fuel Groups Team to Provide Consumer Info Johanns Against Policies Lowering Corn Prices Economic Growth Will Drive Biofuel Industry USDA Distributes Final DCP Payments for Corn NCGA Recaps Importance of Correctly Directing Corn Hybrids Brazil May Import Almost 8M Tons of Wheat in 2007 Government Grants $17.5 Million for Renewable Fuel Research Australia Wheat Crop Estimate May Still Be Too High Drought Slashes Australia Wheat Crop Compound Added To Anhydrous Ammonia Thwarts Meth Makers Developing Countries Stand to Lose Most if Doha Fails National Farmer's Union Helps Farmers Deal in Carbon Low Path Avian Influenza Confirmed in Montana Policy Think Tank Focuses on 2007 Farm Bill Drought and Insects Take Toll on China's Corn Ethanol Plant Conversion Announced Brazil Cuts Soybean Planting Intentions U.S., EU Officials Discuss Rice Testing USDA Limits Activity on CRP Acres Analyst Group Predicts Corn, Soybean Crops Ag Complex Sets Daily Record Report Looks at Farmers' Perspective on Conservation Program E. Coli Search Heats Up in California October USDA Crop Report Updates Row Crop Information EU Considers Further Testing of U.S. Rice Imports Mexico Lifts Ban on U.S. Dairy Heifers USDA Awards $2.5 Million for Watershed Studies Brazil Moves Toward Biotech USDA Approves Cattle Price Reporting USDA Issues $1.8 Billion in Conservation Reserve Payments Genetically Engineered Rice Comes to Kansas Argentina Wheat Still Starved for Rain Biodiesel Tech Advance Cuts Costs CBOT Agricultural Futures Surge in September Election Recess Delays Farm Disaster Aid Bill Senators Ask for Ethanol Pipeline Study Groups Ask for Inquiry of Smithfield-Standard Acquisition WTO Rules in Favor of U.S. in EU Biotech Case Congress Adjourns Without Passing WRDA Total Hog Inventory Up 1% Grain Group Cuts World Wheat Estimate Agriculture Secretary Addresses National Food Safety Bush Talks Ethanol, NRDC Wants Action Japanese Government Expands GMO Testing for U.S. Rice USDA to Loan Over $234 Million to Electric Co-ops U.S. Senators Stick to Trade Demands As EU Minister Visits GAO Report on Conservation Funding Draws Call for Reform Legislation Aims to Balance Farm Program Inequities New Japan Farm Minister to Retain U.S. Beef Restrictions Forum Discusses Farm Bill, Future of U.S. Agriculture Agriculture Task Force Calls for End to Farm Subsidies Environmental Working Group Issues Analysis of Disaster Payments Canada Plans Future U.S. Farm Program Challenges FBI Official Says Ag Threat Still Exists USDA Offers Indemnity Program in Event of Avian Flu Outbreak Additional Speakers Will Join USDA-DOE Renewable Energy Conference Iowa State Study Shows Trade Barriers Bolster U.S. Ethanol Prices USDA Enhances Programs to Help Rebuild Iraq Ag Education Effort Market Analyst Worries Over Drop in Oilseed Acres Turner Suggests Solution to Doha Subsidy Deadlock New Conservation Easement Reports Offer Valuable Suggestions German State Finds Biotech Rice Content in Samples Pennsylvania Ducks With Avian Flu Confirmed to Have Low-Path Strain FDA Says Spinach Not Raised in California is OK to Consume Ag Economic Group Issues Corn Acreage Forecast Rural Vote Split Between Parties Rebuilding Japanese Beef Export Market Faces Challenges Retest of European Rice Finds More Biotech Content Market Access Remains Stumbling Block for Trade Officials Narrow Search for E. coli Senate Gives Nod to Final Price Reporting Passage Senate Ag Chair Calls for Changes to Duty-Free Trade Program U.S. Offers Deeper Subsidy Cuts Farm Groups Testify About Next Farm Bill Senate Names Conferees for WRDA FARM FUTURES Survey Shows Corn Plantings Could Reach Highest Level in More than 50 Years Officials Continue to Look for Source of Disease in Spinach Australia Cuts Wheat Forecast EU Rejects Planned WTO Move at Cairns Group Meeting Iowa Senators Worry Over Food Company Merger Developed Nations Urged to Cut Subsidies Lock and Dam Bill Moving Forward, But Needs Legislative Action Report: Renewable Energy Gains Competitiveness on Fossil Fuels Johanns Travels to Australia in Part to Get Support for WTO Talks World Bank Puts Dollar Figure on Potential Avian Flu Outbreak European Officials Say Illegal Biotech Rice Not a Risk to Animals, People World Health Organization Turns to DDT to Stop Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes Smithfield, Premium Standard Farms to Merge USDA Extends Emergency CRP Grazing in 30 States Ag Disaster Aid Gets Big Push on Capitol Hill This Week Cooperative Development Centers to Receive $4.3 Million U.S. Farm Policy Reform Could Increase Net Income by $7 Billion New Study Shows Nutrition Has Greater Impact that Biotech Content on Soil Organisms Farm Bill Proposal Includes Increased Conservation, Renewable Energy Spending Look at Factors that Affect Corn Drydown Bioenergy, Food Safety Programs Top List for New Funding in Next Farm Bill Ag Trade Exports $5 Billion Higher Than Same Period Last Year Research Finds Biodiesel Performs Well in Harsh Environments Congressional Members Host Biobased Product Showcase at Pentagon Rural Energy for America Act Expands Farm Bill's Energy Provisions Local Communities Benefit More from Farmer-Owned Ethanol Plants Biofuels Production Projected to Grow Over 16 Billion Gallons by 2015 Finale Farm Bill Analysis Focuses on Future Ag Growth Needs Latest Avian Flu Find Also Low Pathogenic Subtype European Commission Finds Unauthorized Rice in Import Shipments High Levels of Carryover Nitrogen Could Save Money for Ag Producers USDA Permanently Moves National Finance Center to Denver NGFA: CFTC Needs to Modify Its Weekly Commitments of Traders Report Seattle Meeting Provided Little Headway in Korea FTA Talks Public Can Comment on Bayer's Genetically Engineered Rice Regulation ARS Considers Proposal to Charge 10% Overhead Fee on External Funds Corn Export Demand Reaches Highest Level in a Decade USDA Opens Ag Office in Senegal Beef Checkoff Evaluation Committee Suggests Needed Improvements Legislators Introduce Measure to Prohibit Mandatory Animal ID System Korea Lifts Ban on Imports of U.S. Beef Wheat Supply Chains Meet to Discuss Industry Challenges Burns Introduces Ag Disaster Relief Amendment To Address 2006 Wildfire Losses EPA Proposes Rule for Final RFS Implementation National Corn Crop Condition Ahead of Last Year's Figures Senate Again Introduces $3.9 Billion Ag Disaster Aid Package Horse Slaughter Ban Gets OK in House Ag Community Needs to Not Only Produce More Food, But Also In Sustainable Manner House Takes Up Bill to Ban Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption Missouri FAPRI Forecasts Harvest Energy Costs Again on the Rise Group Speaks Out Against Lack of Wheat Benefits in Drought Aid Ag Transportation Working Group Urges USDA Involvement in STB Case USDA Publishes Genome Sequences To Help Reduce Crop Damage Losses Look for USDA to Increase Soybean Production Forecast Updated Report Says Industry Still Not Ready for Biotech Wheat Expert: Trade Round Stall Offers Policy Change Potential U.S. Blocks Brazil Panel Petition USDA Reports Marketing-Year High in Corn Exports Last Week Pennsylvania Ducks Found with Low-Path Avian Flu Farm-Raised Fish Supplies Nearly Match Wild Catch Farm Bill Reform Gets Continued Push from Ag Secretary USDA Conducts Tests on Maryland Bird Samples Renewable Energy Projects Get Investment Consumer Reports Issues E85 Test Information New Biotech Report Highlights Opportunities and Challenges in Biotech Johanns Expects South Korea to Resume Beef Trade in October COT Reports Level Market Playing Field Between Small and Large Market Players Farmers File Class Action Suit Against Bayer, Riceland Foods for Unapproved Biotech Rice USDA Fast Tracks CCP Payments to Aid Farmers Facing Drought Farmers Continue to Expand Ethanol Production to Meet Increasing Demand Confirmatory Bird Tests Find Swans Had Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza By 2007 More Than 2.5 Million Acres Could Be Planted to Low-lin Beans Midwestern Governors Association Throw Support Behind 25x25 Initiative USDA Announces Over $309 Million In Electric Loans To Thirteen States NCGA Continues Push for Revenue-Based Insurance Approach for Next Farm Bill Industry Speaks Out On National Animal Identification System at KC Meeting GMO-Free Certification Needed for Long-Grain Rice Exports Headed to Europe Considering Manure As a Viable Alternative to Commercial Fertilizer USDA Wants Extension on Deadline for Private BSE Testing Case Researchers Develop Flood-Tolerant Rice Back-To-Back Records U.S. Agricultural Exports Forecast In 2006 And 2007 USDA Forecasts 24% Increase in U.S. Soft Wheat Exports NCGA Still Urging Congress for Action on WRDA Arlen Lancaster Succeeds Bruce Knight as NRCS Top Man Canada Finds Another BSE Case, This Time in Older Cow Herbicide Resistance in Waterhemp Caused by Gene Mutation Measure Soils' Electrical Conductivity to Create Herbicide Application Maps NSP Board Votes Unanimously to Proceed with Creating a National Sorghum Checkoff U.S. to Donate 25,000 Metric Tons of Hard Red Winter Wheat to Lebanon Glyphosate-Resistant Johnsongrass Has Been Confirmed In A Northern Province In Argentina Wheat Shipments Keeping Pace, Corn Volumes Slightly Ahead in Trade Picture Ocean Freigh Rates High, But Still Below Three Year Mid-Point Governments Have More Biobased Options for Purchasing USDA Awards Over $6.5 Million for Rural Economic Development Trace Amounts of Genetically Engineered Rice Found in Commercial Long Grain Rice Brazil Requests WTO Panel Determine Whether US Is Complying With Cotton Ruling Members Named for Biotechnology Advisory Committee Fed Agencies Need to Forge Strong Relationships with State Counterparts in Biotech Information Disclosure Oklahoma State University Releases Two New Hard Red Winter Wheat Varieties Wheat Basis Crumbling Over High Production in the West, Too Much SRW on the Market Report Confirms Environmental Benefits of CRP in Pheasant Populations Hawaii Biopharming Decision Finds USDA in Violation of Environmental Laws New BLM Rules will Provide Long-Term Benefits for Rangeland Health France Suggests Taking Ag Out of WTO Negotiations to Jumpstart Talks Again Dakota Senators Push for Drought Aid Decision Ties Rail Fuel Surcharges Closer to Actual Changes in Fuel Costs Testing Rules Out Asian Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Suspect Wild Birds Weather Hasn't Deteriorated Corn, Soybean Conditions Compared to Last USDA Boosts Corn Yield, Production Estimates Johanns: Renewable Fuels Still Needs Government Help Wheat Export Trade Education Committee Dissolves After Failed WTO Talks DOE and USDA Jointly Fund Biobased Fuels Research Brazil Eyes Marketing Loan Program In Further Cotton Case Compliance Combest on Farm Bill: If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It General System of Preferences Under Review USDA Under Secretary J.B. Penn Resigns from USDA to Return to Private Sector Western Bean Cutworm Invades Western Corn Belt Biodiesel Proving to Be Significant Demand Shifter in Vegetable Oil Industry Fourth 2007 Farm Bill Discussion Papers Focuses on Renewable Energy Further South Korean Beef Trade Resumption Delays Could Jeopardize FTA Negotiations RMA Offers New Insurance Tools for Pasture, Rangeland and Forage USDA's Latest Land Values and Cash Rents Finds Increased Real Estate Values Senators Want Tax Relief Extended for Continued Drought Conditions Plant Certified, Treated and Resistant Wheat Seed Estate Tax Fails In Senate, Won't Come Up Again Until At Least September Look at Locking in N Prices No Guarantee on Drought Assistance Until After Harvest DOE Boosts Funding for New Bioenergy Research Centers August Calendar Change Brings End to Step 2 Cotton Program New Publication Outlines Regional Approach to Nitrogen Rate Guidelines Ethanol Barrels Per Day Production Nears Demand Estate Tax Lumped Into Pension, Min. Wage Package Senate Natural Gas Exploration Bill Gets Passes with Bipartisan Support Ag, Manufacturing and Service Groups Join Together for Pushing TPA Extension Georgia Company to Construct 50-Million Gallon/Year Cellulosic Ethanol Facility Domestic Freight Traffic Will Increase 67% and General Cargo 113% Iraq Now 3rd Largest Purchaser of U.S. Wheat USDA Reports Corn Crop Condition Down From Previous Week USDA Withdraws Over-30 Rule for Canadian Beef Wheat Sales to Top Three Buyers Up 45% Study Finds Organic Grain Crops More Profitable Than Conventional Barge Traffic Ordered Off Missouri River Again Global Food Demand Forecasted To Double, If Not Triple New Discovery Helps Keep Fusarium Head Blight at Bay Wheat Tour Finds Yield Losses Across North Dakota USDA Awards $4.1 to Fund Invasive Species Control USDA Amends Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program Rules Sweet Deal Solidifies Promise of U.S. HCFS Presence in Mexico Louisiana Sentinel Plot Identifies Soybean Rust Farm Bill, TPA Extension Needed to Keep WTO Talks Alive, Says Farm Bureau U.S. Beef Again Approved for Japan Exports Switchgrass Field Average More Soil Carbon Than Corn, Wheat U.S. Engages with Brazil on Reviving WTO Talks Japanese Press Report Thursday as Beef Trade Resumption Announcement NCGA National Corn Yield Contest Deadline is Aug. 1 Cattle Expansion Remains Slow, 1% Greater Than Last Year Secondary Pests Rob Bt Cotton Profits in China Why the United States Left the WTO Trade Negotiating Table Bipartisan Bill to Reduce Gasoline Consumption by Half a Trillion Gallons Committee Hears from Minnesota Producers about Farm Policy Committee Hears from Minnesota Producers about Farm Policy WTO Doha Development Round Suspended Indefinitely Largest Feed Producers In China Announces Corn Purchase Trade Opportunities Boosted with $10 Million from USDA Understand Hybrids' Resistance to Fungal Diseases Before Spraying Senators Urge USDA to Implement Comprehensive Surveillance System CBOT to Launch Daytime e-trading Aug. 1 House Passes U.S.-Oman FTA Corn Growers Advocating Revenue-Based Safety Net Option Kyodo News: Japan to Lift Beef Ban Next Week Administration Officials Say EU Prepared to Make Better Market Access Trade Proposal FAPRI Forecasts 3 Million-Acre Shift From Soybeans to Corn by 2010 Locks and Dams Modernization Bill Passes Senate Next Month USDA Will Cut Back BSE Testing to 40,000 Animals NASS Reports Corn Crop is Progressing Well Senate Superfund Law Clarifies Intent of the Law, Excluding Manure Pocket-Sized Pamphlet Gives Distiller Grains Feedings Recommendations Harkin: Follow-up Investigation Needed in Packers and Stockyards Act Enforcement TAA Accepting Applications Beginning In August Senate Begins Lock and Dams Restoration Debate Today Lamy Says Doha Success Lies in Hands of G8 Leaders Will Brazil Hardball WTO Talks with Cotton Meeting? Hard Wheat Suffering Worldwide Only Half of Escalating Farm Costs Is Because of Rising Energy Prices Twenty-five States Awarded Matching Grants Ag Market Research Money Countries Combine Resources for Animal Disease Crisis Management Center New Device Provides Wheat Testing Information in Seconds on the Farm Ag Trade Exports Up Compared to 2005 Livestock Producers Find Drought Relief from Expanded CRP Grazing University of Missouri Confirms Glyphosate-Resistant Waterhemp Canada Announces BSE in 50-Month Old Dairy Cow New USDA Guide Features Pre-Harvest Security Tips Soydiesel Offers Higher Net Energy Gain Compared to Corn Ethanol WTO Progress Still Hinges on Market Access Purdue Study: Farmers Utilizing Wider Variety of Grain Marketing Practices Canada Lifts Import Restrictions Regarding Bluetongue Sugar Not Cost-Effective for U.S. Ethanol Production Drought Conditions Worsen in Northern Plains, Upper Mississippi Valley Alberta Dairy Cow Having Additional BSE Testing New DOE Research Agenda Lays Out Development Plan for Cellulosic Ethanol Farm Groups Request Senate Rail Hearing Chinese Corn Shortage Sends Vietnam Looking to U.S. For Corn Third of 2007 Farm Bill Theme Papers Available on Rural Development Check for Corn Rootworm Injury House Amendment Eases Cuba Trading Restrictions NRCS Announces Signup for Wetlands Reserve Program Reverse Auction July Weather Expected Cooler Than Previously Thought Proposed EPA CAFO Rule Includes Workable Solution Ag Groups Say Iowa, California Continue Reign as Top Exporting States Court Schedule Set for R-CALF BSE Rule Appeal Process House Passes Natural Gas Legislation Car Makers to Double Production of Flex Fuel Vehicles Canada Confirms BSE in Manitoba Cow Kohl Introduces Railroad Anti-Trust Bill in Senate Rust Confirmed in Louisiana, Alabama Geneva WTO Meetings End with No Breakthrough President Approves Guatemala CAFTA-DR Implementation Canada Opens Doors Wider for More U.S. Beef Products Low-Price Ocean Freight Rates Impact Grain Shipping China Opens to Restore Some U.S. Beef Imports Johanns Update on WTO Shows Worry over 'Loopholes' Senators Worry Over Renewable Fuels Standard Implementation Canada Finds Suspect BSE Cow U.S. Ag and Trade Officials Keep Pushing for Market Access Biotech Crops Keep Gaining Ground Johanns Restates Commitment to Market Access at WTO Press Conference Peru FTA Passage Now in Hands of Congress Dairy Training Center Opens in China Report Summarizes USDA Loan Performance Senate Backs Away from Estate Tax Vote WTO Chief Offers Idea for Ending Stalemate Japanese Market, Beef Trade Gets Attention at 'Press Gaggle' Forces Rally Ahead of WTO Meeting Pressure Builds to Get Trade Deal Made 2004 CSP Participant Contracts Modified In Event of Bird Flu, Border Closing Unlikely Herbicide Review Complete, Comments Requested Canada Toughens Feed Controls Group Calls Members to Action for Vote on Natural Gas Bill Pork is Really Getting Leaner New Report Outlines Potentials of Increased Biofuel Production House Approves Estate Tax Legislation, Fate in Senate Unknown Allgeier: WTO Ministers Need to Focus on Market Access Extend or Re-Enroll CRP Contracts by June 30 CropLife Study Outlines Considerable Monetary and Environmental Benefits of Herbicides U.S.-EU Summit Addresses Doha Differences Ahead of Month-End Meeting FDA Proposes Early Biotech Evaluation To Protect Food Supply Senate Introduces 10 x 10 Act State Legislatures Increasingly Attempting to Limit Ag Biotechnology Senate Ag Spending Bill Slightly Higher than House Passed Version Japan, U.S. Agree on Beef Trade Resumption Details Inspector General Report Outlines Concerns in AI Preparedness Japan Faced with Legislative Ultimatum if Trade Doesn't Resume Limit the Possibility of Dockage in Wheat New Supreme Court Ruling Limits Clean Water Act Biotechnology Continues to Play Significant Role in Reshaping World Agriculture USDA Doles Out $20 Million in Conservation Grants The Good and the Bad Across Wheat Country Florida Sentinel Site Reports First Rust on Soybeans in 2006 New Publication Highlights Successful Farming Systems 2006 County Committee Election Process Now Underway GAO Report Identifies Crop Insurances Vulnerabilities to Fraud, Waste and Abuse Individuals Who Opened Up Brazilian Cerrado Honored CBOT Corn Options Contract Reaches One Million Milestone NCBA Executive Committee Supports Japan Sanctions New Alliance Advocating Federal Biobased Product Purchases Expect Lower Yields in the Corn Belt USDA Releases Latest Ag Export Figures Soft Wheat Facing Marketing Challenges WTO Insiders See Failure of Doha Ahead Scientists Say U.S. BSE Cases May be 'Atypical' WTO Director-General Discusses WTO Progress with U.S. Commodity Group Leaders Failed Estate Tax Leaves Opportunity to Fix Carry-Over Basis House Limits Discount Crop Insurance Iowa Cable Companies Sue USDA Over Broadband Loans Energy Estimator for Irrigation Now Available Wall Street Gives Ethanol 'Speculative-Grade' on Investment Potential Wheat Coalition Calls for Action on American Wheat's Competitiveness WRDA Set to Meet Required Procedural Steps This Week Senate Confirms Susan Schwab as USTR Ambassador Drought Conditions Lower Wheat Production Estimates USDA Database Uncovers Entity Information on Large Farm Corporations Ag Disaster Funding Gets the Ax in Final Negotiations Ag Climatologist Predicts Hot July Senate Republicans Gamble with Estate Tax Repeal Estate Tax Vote Fails in Senate New Conservation Theme Paper Outlines Alternatives to Current Policy Track Aphids on USDA Rust Web Site Congress Introduces Resolution Supporting 25x'25 Vision Half of Conservation Security Program Applications Accepted USDA Accepts 1 Million New CRP Acres Reports Indicate Korea Will Further Delay Beef Trade Resumption South Korea FTA Negotiations Underway Harkin Pushes for Japan Beef Trade Resumption Timeline New Tool Assists in Rust Prevention, Treatment Ethanol Demand Projected to Soak Up a Third More Corn This Year Ag Groups Say Doha Must Deliver Before More Cuts are Offered Survey Confirms Growing Ethanol Acceptance Nationwide International BSE Guidelines Updated with New Scientific Findings U.S. Livestock Industry at Risk because of Fewer Large Animal Vets APEC Ministers Make Call for Successful Doha Round House Subcommittee Hosts Forum on Upper Midwest Dairy Industry Faulkner Named Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development USDA Extends EQIP Energy Assistance Deadline CBOT Signals Selling on Futures, Not Local Cash Market Rust in the Midwest Less Likely Until Late July, Early August Beef Shipments Headed to South Korea June 7 Senate Schedules Farm Bill Hearings in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Iowa Vietnam One Step Closer to WTO Membership Court Favors Creekstone in First Round of Trial Iowa Passes 25% Renewable Fuels Standard Researchers Find Easier Way to Identify Scab-resistance Genes Know Farm Lease Requirements Clock Ticking for Loan Deadlines Experience the 'Bounty on the Bay' Boswell Introduces Bill to Extend Tariff on Ethanol Ethanol Production Continues Impressive Rate Chinese Private Importer Buys U.S. Corn USDA Forecasts Ag Trade Exports Higher Senate Passes Immigration Reform Bill, Now on to Settle Differences Cash In On Pumped Up Corn Prices Don't Forget to Report Crops to FSA After 2006 Planting Indonesia Family of Seven Infected with Avian Influenza House Approves Ag Spending Bill USDA Sponsors Risk Management Conference Energy Prices Weigh on Corn Demand Take the Emotion Out of Replanting Decisions Harkin Calls for Independent Australian Wheat Board Investigation Deputy USTR's Schwab, Allgeier to Attend OECD Meeting in Paris Cropland Erosion Declined 43% Over Past 20 Years Greenpeace Activists Target Brazil Cargill Soybean Facility Expect Tight Grain Storage This Fall US Wheat Production Projected 11% Lower 2006 DCP Signup Deadline Nears Major Auto Companies Commit to 25X25' Renewable Fuels Goal WTO Panel Upholds Mexican HFCS Ruling Properly Dispose Unused Corn Seed Japan May Resume Beef Trade by June Senate Democrats Introduce Renewable Energy Legislation CBOT Corn Futures Contract Sets Volume Record Weigh Several Factors Before Making the Planting Switch Senators Launch Online Petition for Disaster Funding Trade Surplus Continues to Shrink U.S., Vietnam Reach WTO Accession Agreement US Delegation Concludes Beef Talks with China Rural Electric Cooperatives Receive $118 Million in Loans Corn Exports Keep Climbing, Indonesia and China Make Purchases Scout Emerging Corn for Insects Rural Energy Solutions Introduced in Congress Minneapolis Grain Exchange Expands HRSW Trading Hours Developing Countries Set Doha Talks Back CBOT Launches South American Soybean Side-By-Side Trading Monday Mexico Resumes Wheat Trade with California Ag Groups Warn Against Removing Ethanol Import Tariff Extensions Needed for Continued Biodiesel Growth Biotech Enzymes Can Make Ethanol Cost-competitive with Gasoline House Web-Based Farm Bill Feedback Form Launched New USTR Head Hearing Expected Next Week Judge Rules on Glyphosate-Tolerant Traits EU Report Says EU Biotech Labeling, Tracing Rules Beneficial Crop Insurance Premium Discounts Threatened Poland Bans 16 GMO Varieties American Farmland Trust Pushes for Policy Changes Corn Planting 70% Complete CRP Re-Enrollment/Extension Deadline Looms USDA Starts Discussion on Risk Management Reform EPA Wants More Agricultural Input, Collaboration Japan Increasing Wheat Purchases Get the Facts on Avian Influenza Concerns President Offers Vocal Support for Lowering Ethanol Import Barriers Wheat Quality Council Didn't Find Total Disaster in Kansas Alabama Cow Brings Dead End Investigation Farmers Often Apply Glyphosate Too Late Limited Evidence Supports Advisory Services Outperform Farmer Benchmarks Trade Leaders Express Desire for Successful Doha Round Bipartisan Bill Extends Farm Bill Until WTO Negotiation Completion Supporters Push for Passage of Water Resources Development Act GAO Report Addresses CSP Funding Issues Ninety Percent of Growers Adhering to Bt IRM Requirements Grain Inspection Advisory Committee Members and Alternates Named Research Finds Bt Cotton Improves Yields, Lowers Pesticide Use South Korea Corn Exports Remain Strong Ethanol Continues to Break Monthly Production Records WTO Ag Chairman Sets Six-Week Intensive Schedule No Starlink Corn Found in Current Marketing Year USDA Says BSE Prevalence Low in the United States, Between 4-7 Animals Total Vermont Governor Threatens Veto on Biotech Ban Law Trade Leaders Head to Geneva Next Week to Keep Doha On Forefront President Threatens Veto on Spending Bill with Farm Disaster Aid Tillage Adds About $9.50 in Costs Per Acre More Fungicide Seed Treatment Choices Available for Early Planted Beans Sufficient Corn for Continued Growth of Ethanol Industry CBOT Announces Ag Futures Trading During Daytime Hours Expect Three-Year Lifespan for Site-specific Tools Mild Winter Favors Insect Survival Rates Grassley Supports Farm Bill Extension Coupled with TPA Extension Framing the Ethanol Debate Bush Makes Short-Term Fixes to Fuel Supply Push from the Planter for WRDA Vote Energy Costs Squeezing All Farmers, Crop Producers the Most Corn Exports Outpace USDA Expectations Crop Pests Hitching Rides On Spring Storm Systems Ag Groups Mount Support for Peru TPA Leaders Wave Goodbye to April 30 WTO Deadline Increase in Wheat Expected in Indonesia Keppy Named FSA Associate Administrator Little Progress Seen in Geneva WTO Talks WTO Proposal Limits Food Aid New Technology Quickly Converts Vegetable Oil to Biodiesel on the Farm Wheat Outlook Report Says Exports Up, Plantings Down New Form of Rust Threatens World Wheat Online Database Simplifies Pesticide Decisions Canada Producers Not Affected by US Corn Imports Ethanol Wrongly Accused of High Gasoline Prices Japan's Young Steer Negative for BSE Japan Runs Confirmatory BSE Tests on 20-Month-Old Cow New Report Looks at Sugar Reform Grain - Forage Crop Rotations Boost Soil Quality Portman Named New OMB Director Trade Surplus Continues to Shrink Canada Confirms Fifth BSE Case in 6-Year Old Dairy Cow USDA Audit Finds Farmers Receive $9 Million in Loans New Greenhouse Gas Reporting Guidance for Farms and Forests USDA Announces $20 Million For Rural Distance Learning and Telemedicine Group Sues USDA for Information About Organic Standards Applications Being Accepted for 2006-07 Cotton Leadership Class Doha Round Does Little for Trade Deficit Reduction Jury Fines Meat Packers Millions Potential Case of BSE Identified In British Columbia Johanns Extends CRP Sign-Up Deadline EIA Changes Energy Story, Says Enough Ethanol For MTBE Switch USDA Continues to Lower Its Corn Stock Estimates China to Reopen Market to US Beef Exports $70 Million Available Through FRPP Try Out New Version of Hybrid-Maize Corn Software ASA Renews Trade Agreement with China Congressmen Weigh-In on WTO Progress New EWG Analysis Says Nitrogen Pollution a Fixable Problem Consult Local Specialists When Changing Farming Practices DuPont, Syngenta Form Biotech Joint Venture Judge Denies R-CALF Court Request China Delegation Makes Commitment to US Soybeans Wheat Acreage Projected Lower Hog Farms Not a Factor to Nearby Residences' Air Quality USDA Outlines Plan, Benchmarks for National Animal ID Implementation Arizona Law Legalizes E85 Sales Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Disaster Assistance for Producers Feds on High Alert for Bird Flu European Union Questions BT10 Testing Accuracy Chambliss Proposes Non-Amnesty Immigration Amendment Wheat Researchers Dive into Gene Pool Ethanol Race Team Names New Driver Producers Increased Soybean Profits Thanks to Rust Detection Efforts CBOT Trading Down One Hour This Morning Retail Food Prices Up Slightly in First Quarter Soil Moisture Improved Going Into Spring Democrat Senators Want U.S. AWB Investigation All Hog and Breeding Herd Inventories Up 1% $5 Million Awarded for Barley Research Honduras, Nicaragua Enter Final CAFTA Implementation New Web Site Provides Nutrient Management Planning Information House Proposes Ag Budget Cuts Chambliss Proposes Immigration Bill with Ag Worker Provision Livestock National ID Sign-ups S-l-u-g-g-i-s-h USDA Projects Drastic Drop in 2006 Corn Acres Ethanol Production Continues at Record Levels House Farm Bill Hearing Calls for More of 2002 Programs China Provides Market Increase Opportunities in WTO Negotiations Optimism, Not Breakthrough Seen in Japanese Beef Trade Talks Corn Industry Has Opportunity to Increase South Korean Market Share Senate Panel Examines Elimination of MTBE Number of BSE Cases Declining Worldwide USDA Plans to Analyze Risk Management Options for Next Farm Bill CAFTA Implementation Expected in Nicaragua, Honduras Soon U.S. Spring Outlook Looks Bleak for Hard Red Winter Wheat Farmers April 30 WTO Deadline Quickly Approaching With Few Advances Midwest Senators Introduce American Fuels Act Japan Freight Rates at Lowest Levels in Months Iraq Purchases 500,000 Tons from Non-AWB Wheat Consortium Ag Secretary Urges Conservation Reserve Program Sign-up French Paper Promotes Ag Policy Changes Ethanol Racing Promotion Effort Sees Tragedy with Driver's Death World Trade Organization Calls Trade Agreements a Distraction Kansas Packer Sues USDA Over Voluntary BSE Testing President Bush Reiterates Need for Immigration Policy Technical Team Heads to Japan Michigan Senate Panel Pushes Bill to Stop Local Governments from Banning Biotech Crops Mexico Officials Deny Speculation of Bird Flu Case USDA Announces CRP Signup Beginning March 27 GAO Report Offers Tweaks to Soybean Rust Approach United Nations Warns of Overuse of Water for Ag Bird Flu Information Made Available Government Leaders: Avian Flu Likely Within the Year U.S. Responds to Japan BSE Questions Legislation Extends Biodiesel Tax Incentive Subcommittee Reviews Federal Crop Insurance Farm Futures Survey Indicates Farmers Plan to Plant Less Corn, More Soybeans this Spring IHC BSE Test Also Comes Back Positive U.S. Corn Coalition Disappointed in Canadian Ruling USDA Provides $20.1 Million in ECP Funds to 26 States Custom Farming Rates Continue to Rise, UNL Analysis Shows New EIA Report Questions Ethanol's Ability to Replace MTBE Discovery of BSE Cow Delays Korean Trade Resumption Timetable Canada Determines U.S. Corn Dumped, Subsidized Rabobank Opposes FCA Proposed Amendments to Exit Provisions Budget Resolution Amendment Calls for More Energy Funding Amendment for Emergency Farm Assistance Fails Trade Surplus Continues to Shrink New BSE Find Confirmed in Alabama Soybean Rust Fungicide Unaffected By Row Widths CWT Doubles Its Assessment Rate Soybean Rust Scouting Ongoing in Georgia, Alabama European Union Backs Away from EU-Wide Biotech Rules G6 Trade Leaders Head to London for More WTO Talks Adapt or Die: Bryce Knorr Featured on Food Chain Talk Show Rule Designates Biobased Items for Federal Agency Purchase USDA Receives Questions from Japan on Ineligible Veal Shipment Support Growing for Renewable Energy House Passes National Uniformity for Food Act U.S. Farm Exports Associated with Peru FTA Could Exceed $705 Million Per Year United States Intends to Negotiate FTA with Malaysia Grassley Puts Hold on Export-Import Bank Nominee Over Brazilian Ethanol Dispute Ethanol Faces Critical Point with MTBE Phase-out New Standards for Hard White Wheat Begin in May Farmers Face Increasing Cost-Price Squeeze in 2006 Manage Capital in 2006 Projections Expect Wheat Farms to Face Financial, Drought Issues Producers Impacted by Hurricane Eligible for $63 Million in ECP Funds High China Corn Prices Motivate Decision to Stop Corn Exports Goodlatte: Farm Bill Will Be Written in Congress, Not Geneva ASA Leaders Ask Johanns for Fewer CRP Acres in Next Farm Bill Beef Checkoff Settlement Calls for Survey of 8,000 Producers WTO Panel Issues Final HCFS Ruling Against Mexico House Committee Hosts Hearings in California, Nebraska Commodity Groups Outline Policy Priorities Ag Groups Urge Budget Committees to Abandon Reconciliation Corn, Soybean Group Leaders Outline Policy Priorities at Commodity Classic Bipartisan Bill Increases Tax Incentives for Alternative Energy Vehicles Johanns Tells Growers USDA will not Oppose WRDA EPA Looks to Increase Ethanol Plants' Emissions Threshold NAWG to Join 2007 Commodity Classic New Purdue Center Provides Crop Defense Budget Calls for Commodity Aid Cuts California Group Abandons Banning Biotech Ballot Strategy Spot Market Hog Purchases Provide Accurate Price Discovery Mechanism $5.3 Million Announced for Air Quality Grants New Process Economically Converts Manure to Oil Computer Program Puts Byte on Farmers' Weed Problems More Global Warming Weather Woes Ahead for Great Lakes Agriculture Ethanol Revolution Changes Nature of Corn Industry United States, Colombia Conclude FTA Talks Johanns Announces Over $21 Million In Energy Projects Farmer Groups Outline Critical WTO Issues U.S. Ethanol Industry Sets Record in 2005 Chinese Corn Stocks Tightening Asian Rust Confirmed in Texas USDA Launches Nitrogen Calculator to Help in Rate Decisions USTR Recommends CAFTA Implementation in El Salvador Legislation Strengthens Packers and Stockyards Act Grants, Loans Available for Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency Projects New Web Site Helps with Production Decisions EU, US Top Trade Ministers Meet House Ag Committee Wants Budget Changes After 2007 Energy Secretary Outlines Changing Face of Ethanol with Use of Ag Wastes 2006 Outlook for Ag Exports Remains at Record $64.5 Billion New Iron Detects Worn Parts, Dangerous Slopes Thornberry Seeks Extension of Farm Bill Lawsuit Filed Against Roundup Ready Alfalfa Administration Shows Little Support for WRDA Supreme Court Hears Divisive Wetlands Case $5 Million Awarded for Applied Wheat Genome Research Older Farmers Less Likely to Adopt Bt Corn WTO Director to Draft WTO Modalities if No Compromise Found More Red Meat and Poultry Coming in 2006 New Legislation Closes Biodiesel Tax Loophole USDA Sends Investigation Report to Japan on Beef Shipment Mistake Johanns: Don't Wait for Doha Conclusion to Write Farm Bill EPA Ends Ethanol, MTBE Oxygenate Requirements Biotechnology Continues to Play Increasing Role in Global Crop Economy Commerce Dept. Report Says Sugar Policy Pushing Jobs Overseas Some Wheat Breaks Dormancy Due to Mild Winter Weather ARS Chief Foresees Belt Tightening Ag Trade Ends 2005 with $3.5 Billion Surplus WTO Trade Outcome Wild Card in Land Values Progress Needed By End of Week to Make April Deadline Corn After Corn a Continuous Challenge For Growers Increased Global Demand Key to U.S Cotton's Economic Health Survey Suggests Cottons Growers Looking to Increase Planted Acres Net Farm Income Projected at $54 Billion Annually for Next Decade NCC Says Proposed Federal Research Cuts Would Close Ginning Labs EPA Administrator Says Agriculture Can Meet Renewable Fuels Demand Midwest Grain Processors Ethanol Expansion Comes Online Japanese Ministers Vows to Keep 20-Month Age Standard U.S. Wheat Condemns Australian Wheat Board One-on-one with National Sorghum Producers President Greg Shelor ASA Says U.S. Should Challenge Other EU Biotech Laws Beef Board Seats New Members, Elects Leadership WTO Rules Against Europe in Biotech Case Wheat Groups Back Biotech 'Crisis' Grips Wheat Industry Congress, Farm Groups React Negatively to Ag Budget Proposal FSA Offices to Stay Open - For Now House Ag Committee Holds First Farm Bill Hearing Wheat Groups Want AWB Suspension Reinstated Fight Over The Farm Bill 2007 Farm Bill Talks Take Center Stage President's Ag Budget Request Tightens Spending Across the Board Senators Urge Oil Companies to Make More E85 Pumps Available Number of U.S. Farms Estimated at 2.1 Million Johanns Aims to Resolve Japan Situation 'Directly' and 'Expeditiously' South Korea, U.S. Enter Official FTA Talks Progress Made on BSE Firewalls, More Needed USDA Announces Further Increases in Sugar Supplies Congress Approves Legislation Repealing Cotton Subsidy Program Mexico Opens Market to U.S. Bone-In Beef Goodlatte Calls on Japan to Reopen Market to U.S. Beef USDA Lawyers Looking into Legality of Mandatory Private Animal ID System President Calls for Accelerated Energy Research Timeline Midwest Senators Work to Expand the Availability of Renewable Fuels Expect Another Year of High Cattle Prices New Report Outlines Agriculture's Role in U.S. Energy Security Pres. Bush to Push Renewable Energy in State of the Union Address CRP Re-Enrollments and Extensions Made for Eligible Producers in 2007 CSP Sign-Up Dates Scheduled for Feb. 13 to March 31 EPA Approves Air Consent Agreements Japan Ag Minister Failed to Check U.S. Meat Plants Nations Decide to Collectively Proceed on WTO Trade Proposals Corn Exports Strong in January Senate Ag Committee Leaders Push for Early CSP Sign-Up Hurricane Victims Receive $2.8 Billion in Aid from USDA New Study Finds Ethanol Yields Positive Energy Balance Leading Weed Scientists Push for Diversification WTO Biotech Ruling May be Imminent Senator Requests Delay on CAFTA Implementation Taiwan Reopens Market to U.S. Beef EU Organic Allows Trace Biotech Materials Japan Made Specific Request for Veal Japanese Prime Minister Says Japan Wasn't 'Bullied' Into Resuming Beef Trade Japan Finds 22nd BSE Case Sentinel Plot Funding Approved to Continue Fight Against Rust Ethanol Industry Sets New Production, Demand Record Crop1 Insurance Official Comes Under Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Umbrella Goodlatte and Peterson Announce First Farm Bill Hearings Japan Halts U.S. Beef Shipments, Resumption Date Unknown Canada Confirms Fourth BSE Case Cuba to Import 700,000 Tons of U.S. Corn WTO Talks Reconvene this Week Senators Support E85 Tax Credit Stopping Spread of Bird Flu Virus Decreases Potential Threat to Humans USDA Takes Action to Correct Problems with Beef Shipment to Japan Singapore Reopens Market to U.S. Beef Cargill to Help Pay Health Costs U.S. and Oman Sign Free Trade Agreement Report Finds USDA Inaction on Enforcing Packers and Stockyards Act Australian Wheat Board Director Concedes of Knowing about Kickbacks USDA Offers Energy Cost Offset For Completion Of EQIP Practices Purdue Study Finds Fewer Farmers Are Input 'Convenience' Buyers Soybean DNA to be Decoded Thanks to DOE, USDA Partnership USDA Gives Food Security System A Test Run Biotech Acceptance Continues to Rise $38 Million Available for Cooperative Conservation Projects Greece Can't Prohibit Biotech Corn Planting North American Grain Conference Explores Biotech Wheat, Other Hot Issues Trade Surplus Remains But Smaller than 2004 Korea Announces 'Hollow Victory' in Resuming Boneless Beef Trade Gas, Diesel Prices Should Hold Steady in 2006 South Korea's Bone with U.S. Beef Farm Bureau Approves Full Estate Tax Repeal Compromise 2005 Cotton Crop A Record Breaker, USDA Reports AFBF Delegates Spend Tuesday Determining Policy Recommendations Report Criticizes Canadian Beef Inspection Procedures USDA Leaning Towards 'Metadata Layer' Animal ID Approach New Animal ID Consortium Formed to Hold ID Information Asian Markets Mandating All U.S. Food Corn Tested for Aflatoxin True Farm Bill Discussions Long Way Off Domestic Demand Still Driving Force in Livestock Markets Crowder: Not a Question of If But How in World Trade Talks Lower Net Revenue Per Acre Expected in 2006 AFBF President Stallman Gives Marching Orders at Annual Convention U.S. Wheat Planting Down 30% from the 1980s Retail Food Prices Dip Slightly in Fourth Quarter Cotton Industry Expects More WTO Pressure Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds Confirmed in Additional Three States Next Generation of Biotech Focuses on Consumer Benefits Wheat Exports Keep on Pace with Last Year Vermont Rejects State Biotech Ban Beltwide Cotton Conferences Open in San Antonio India Destined to be Biggest Lint Producer South Korea Beef Talks Set for Jan. 9 LaVigne Tapped to Lead American Seed Trade Association Review Your Agriculture Leases, Especially Verbal Releases February 1st CAFTA-DR Implementation Date Possible South Korea, U.S. Beef Talks May Occur Next Week Improve Your Fuel Efficiency with These Tips EPA Takes Important First Step in RFS Implementation Hong Kong Resumes U.S. Beef Trade USDA Announces $380 Million in Funding for Schools and Roads Mexico Drops Anti-Dumping Case on U.S. Unprocessed Hams USDA Hog Numbers Nearly Match Trade Expectations USMEF: Consumer Confidence Essential In Regaining Beef Market In Japan Tips for Ending Your Financial Year Right China Considers Ag Subsidies Pharmaceutical Biotech Crop Company Closes Its Doors Humane Group Sues USDA Over Slaughter Practices Ethanol Sets Another Production Record in October India Delays Wheat Import Decision Report on European Agriculture Shows Land Shift Senate Removes Conservation Funding from Defense Bill Latest Trade Picture Shows Small Ag Trade Surplus Knowing Subsidy Payments Is Important When Setting Cash Rents Senate Sends Reconciliation Package Back to House Midwest Land Values Continue Impressive Rally Congress, Commodity Groups Give Lukewarm Response to WTO Progress GAO: DHS and USDA Are Successfully Coordinating Current Work Canada Levies $1.65 per Bushel on Imports of U.S. Corn Federal Judge Rules Nebraska's Anti-corporate Farming Law Unconstitutional Reconciliation Cuts $2.709 Billion in Ag Spending WTO Ministers Agree to End Export Subsidies by 2013 Duties on U.S. Corn Could Hurt — Not Help — Canadian Industries Canada Assesses Preliminary Duties on U.S. Corn Expectations Low for WTO Breakthrough How the 'Give and Take' Trade Process Pans Out for U.S. Producers Raasch Chosen as New Soybean Board Chairman NCGA Names National Corn Yield Contest Winners Wheels Stuck in Hong Kong Australia's First Trial of Biotech Wheat Won't Solve Salinity Crisis USDA Revises U.S. Corn Exports U.S., Europe Still Deadlocked Over Farm Subsidies Chambliss Wants Accountability in Temporary Farm Jobs GAO Finds Problems with Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Japan Reopens to Beef Imports from United States, Canada Johanns, Portman Head to Hong Kong Farm Credit Administration Approves New Termination Policy Japanese Beef Trade Projected at 100,000 Metric Tons in 2006 FB Study Identifies Agriculture's Future Challenges Insect-Resistant Crops Produce Greatest Biotech Yield Increase FAO Report: Ag Trade Reform Could Leave Poor Behind Japan's Food Safety Commission Concludes U.S. Beef Safe to Consume Landini USA, McCormick to Combine Operations in New Atlanta Facilities Peru, U.S. Conclude FTA Talks Number Crunch Fuel Costs in Seconds Put Conservation to Work for You with Voluntary Conservation Programs Taking USDA's New Computer Tool for a Spin Report Says U.S. Farm Programs Violate International Obligations EU Ministers Stall Approval of Biotech Corn FTC Reports Ethanol Industry 'Not Unduly Concentrated' Ag Statistics Web Site Revamped Brazil, India Promise to Sweeten Non-Ag Trade Deal EU to Make No More Moves Ahead of WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Low-Path Bird Flu Strain Found in U.S. U.S. Average Soybean Oil Levels Increase, Protein Levels Barely Below 35% EU Signals Little Movement on Farm Trade South Korea Delays Beef Trade Resumption Announcements Failed WTO Round Increases Chances of Specific Commodity Litigation FSA County Committee Elections Near U.S. Ethanol Industry Surpasses First Year Goal of RFS Swiss Vote Bans Biotech Survey Shows Challenges to Starting a Farm USDA Expects Record Ag Exports in 2006, Topping $64.5 Billion Jury Settles Bt Corn Technology Patent Dispute New Corn Nitrogen Rate Calculator Unveiled Senator Requests GAO Investigation into Animal ID Plans Natural Gas Prices Send Production Expenses Skyrocketing Imported Biodiesel Raises a Ruckus House Passes Reconciliation Package with $4 Billion Ag Cuts Bush Nominates Richard Crowder as Chief Ag Negotiator Thanksgiving Dinner Cost Up Slightly This Year APEC Nations Call for End of Export Subsidies by 2010 DeHaven: USDA Plans to Lift Older Canadian Cattle Ban Soybean Rust Confirmed in Eastern Texas Ramp Up For Soybean Rust in 2006 Canada Rules Sufficient Evidence in Corn Dumping Case Consumer Knowledge of Biotech Foods, Animal Cloning Remains Low U.S. Agricultural Trade Ends Fiscal 2005 in Surplus USDA Suspends Australian Wheat Board USA Affliate from USDA Export Credit Programs Farmers with at Least 900 Corn Acres Beware Of Payment Limit On LDPs Survey Reveals Missed Planting Windows Remain Problem for Corn Growers Australian Government Begins AWB Investigation EU Say U.S. Too Ambitious in WTO Market Access Requests Californian County Voters Defeat Anti-Biotech Measure GAO Report Says FDA Action Needed to Strengthen Feed Testing Program Hong Kong Won't Bring Defeat or Victory United Bio Energy Offers Online Cash Grain Pricing Platform Senate Ag Committee Hosts Hearing on Rising Energy Costs US-China Settle on Broad Textile Agreement New Nitrogen Rates Apply Economics to the Decision Consumer Acceptance of Cloned Meat, Milk Gaining Ground FTAA Put on Back Burner EU Authorizes Imports of Pioneer Biotech Corn Environmental Working Group Updates Farm Subsidy Database 2005 Net Farm Income Forecasted at $71.5B, Down from 2004's Record High Senate OKs Final Ag Spending Bill Senate Votes Against Stricter Payment Limits Climate Model Predicts Dramatic Changes Over Next 100 Years United States Files WTO Case Against Turkey Over Rice Restrictions President's USDA Avian Flu Request Calls for $91 Million GAO Report Criticizes Crop Insurance System EU Extends Corn Import Restrictions Japanese Commission Finally Moves Forward on Beef Trade Resumption House Passes Budget Reconciliation Package with $3.7 Billion in Ag Cuts EU Proposes WTO Trade Plan to Cut 60% of Domestic Support U.S. Raises Concerns with EU Proposal World Trade Growth Expected to Slow in 2005 Ag Spending Bill Finalized at $100B USDA Enhances Rust Management Tools for 2006 Growing Season Senators Get Tough on Japanese Beef Trade Dilemma Japanese Ambassador Says Trade Resumption Could Take Minimum of Four Months Web Site Keeps Biotech Corn from Unapproved Nations First Partial 2005-Crop Year Countercyclical Payments Announced Japan Beefs Up Stall Tactic All Sides Urged to Break Trade Deadlock Beef Could Reenter Japan by End of 2005, Beginning of 2006 Fertilizer Over-Application Cuts Into Your Bottom Line Biotech Cotton Beats Pink Bollworm for Eight Years Running U.S. Welcomes G20, Australia Movement on Market Access Senate Ag Committee Passes Budget Reconciliation with MILC Extension Ethanol's Impact on Ag a Mixed Blessing WTO Countries Still Differ on Market Access Levels Senate Begins Budget Battle Over MILC and Commodity Programs Midwest Drought Loss Totals Near $2 Billion According to New USDA Report FSA Office Closures Put on Hold After Heavy Opposition in Congress Nicaragua Becomes Sixth Nation to Approve CAFTA ITC Says Canada Doesn't Hurt U.S. Wheat Industry Farm Progress Show 2006 Location Announced for Amana, Iowa Ag Trade Surplus Back in Black for Month of August Court of Appeals Denies R-CALF Request for Rehearing Border Case Dow AgroSciences Teams with Sangamo Biosciences U.S. Corn Coalition Hires Counsel for Canadian Corn Investigation Govt. Payments May Soar Above $22.9 Billion with Recent Bearish Crop Report Ministers Leave Zurich with No Breakthrough Biotech Crops Reduce Pesticide Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions U.S. WTO Proposal Well-Accepted in International Arena USDA-NASS to Update Acreage in October Crop Production Report Portman Offers 60% Reduction in U.S. Subsidies Bt-10 Corn Continues to Surface in Japan Shipments Bipartisan Effort Growing to Delay FSA Office Closings Ag Budget Reconciliation Work Slashes Conservation Funding Johanns Ready to Work with Congress on New Farm Bill Wheat Merger Fails to Gain Approval State of 2005 Farm Economy Down from 2004, but Near Average GATT Calls for Singled-Out Cotton WTO Negotiations FDA Proposes Expanded Feed Ban, Banning SRMs from All Animal Feed New Web Sites Launched to Help Growers Prevent Glyphosate Resistance Grain Facilities Begin to Come Back Online China Corn Production Forecasted 4-5% Lower Fuel Prices Pinch Farmers USDA Announces Plans for Producers to Re-enroll or Extend CRP Contracts Discontent Growing for Japanese Movement on Beef Trade Resumption Watch For USDA Program Payments In October FSA Closures Needed to Modernize Agency New Web Portal Provides Instant Access to USDA Market News Reports Monsanto: Roundup Ready Soybean Technology Patent Expires in 2007 Senate Approves Grain Standards Reauthorization Act Brazil Expects US to Comply with WTO Ruling FSA Announces Plans to Close 713 Offices Barge Rates Take a Beating as Elevators Rush to Make Room for Midwest Crop Glyphosate-resistant Palmer Pigweed Found in West Tennessee Before Katrina Ethanol Production On the Rise Senate Passes Major Agriculture Spending Bill Temporary Waiver of Jones Act Would Help Agriculture Major Auto Makers Expand Commitment to Ethanol EU Ministers Fail to OK Biotech Corn USDA Takes Action to Ease Grain Transportation Senate's Patience on Japanese Beef Imports Waning Katrina Farm Production Losses Estimated at $900 Million Canadian Corn Growers Petition for Dumping Duties on U.S. Corn USDA Farm Bill Forum Draws Large Nebraska Crowd Ag Groups Ask Congress to Expand Natural Gas Production U.S. Ag Exports Trade Surplus Returns in July NCGA Analysis: Uphill Battle Ahead for Producers Congress Passes Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Extension Farmers Bear Burden of Increased Costs This Fall and Next Spring According to FAPRI Report Patent Offices Rules Dow First to Invent Bt Plants CPRI Report Says Fungicides Continue to Play Important Role in Yields Progress Continues on Getting Ports Up to Speed R-CALF Requests Border Rehearing China Will Import Corn Within Five Years Portman on WTO Trade: 'We Can No Longer Procrastinate' Monday Crop Report to Reflect Hurricane, Drought Impacts Pioneer, CHS Partnership Focuses on Animal Nutrition Barges Begin to Move Slowly Through New Orleans Port USDA Offers Emergency Assistance for Hurricane Victims Katrina's Price Tag Estimated at $1 Billion in Farm Country Johanns Visit to Farm Bill Forum Brings Many Ideas, Comments Another Week or Two Needed to Assess Hurricane Katrina Shipping Situation American Seeds Acquires Five Regional Seed Companies Farm Bill Forum Brings Many Ideas for Ag Secretary Johanns Cargill, EPA Announce Clean Air Settlement Corn Growers Impacted Dramatically by Closed Port Ag Companies Donate Millions for Hurricane Relief Prospects Improve for Wheat Group Merger USDA Wants Private Companies to Store National Animal Identification System Data On the Edge of a Revolution in Nitrogen Rate Recommendations Western Corn Rootworm Spreads Beyond Central Illinois and Indiana Hurricane Katrina Impacts Transportation Costs and Trade for Producers Nothing Good Expected to Come From Katrina, Specialists Give Preliminary Assessment of Hurricane FDA Says Enhanced Feed Ban Rule Release Scheduled in Next Month to Two Biotech Wheat Would Lower Wheat Income According to WORC Published Report Model Predicts Hurricane Katrina Will Spread Rust Spores In Already Infected Regions Farm Participation Increases in EPA Clean Air Program Ethanol Demand Soars as Petroleum Prices Increase USDA Forecasts Smaller U.S. Agricultural Trade Surplus at $2.5 Billion USDA Selects 110 Watersheds for 2006 Conservation Security Program Japan Questions U.S. BSE Firewalls, Trade Resumption Still Far Off Johanns Plans Farm Bill Forum at 2005 Farm Progress Show Researchers Agree on Need to Replace Fossil Fuels Energy Bill Boosts Corn Prices by 12.5 Cents, Small Changes Seen in Livestock Feed Costs Bank Group Issues Report that Says U.S. Farmers Can Compete Globally Bird Flu Found in Japan Again While Russia Worries Over Growing Outbreak Broader Range of Aphid-Resistant Varieties on the Horizon with Research from Pioneer and Kansas State Ag Ministers Worry Over Getting Agreement on Key Issues in Time for December WTO Meeting Quint Nation Leaders Hammer Out WTO Trade Details U.S. Government Reaffirms Canadian Subsidization of Wheat Sales to U.S. Access New Soil Survey Info Online with USDA's Web Soil Survey Site Court of Appeals Overturns Captive Supply Ruling in Pickett vs. Tyson Case Utlizing Biodiesel Byproducts Makes Production Cheaper for Manufacturers June Trade Deficit Reaches $94 Million, the Second Deficit for the Year with April's $35 Million Deficit CHS to Process Monsanto's VISTIVE Low-Linolenic Soybeans Rice Researchers Pin Down Rice Genome, Corn Group Looks to Capitalize on the Find EU Clears Monsanto Biotech Corn for Import in Feed Use WTO Rules Mexican HFCS Tax Illegal Report Finds that Disease Outbreaks, Trade Restrictions Impact Beef and Cattle Markets the Most President Bush Makes Good on Energy Promise with Energy Policy Act Signed on Monday Rust Confirmations Continue Across Southern States Both Ames and Weybridge BSE Tests Reveal Negative Results Study Finds That Voters in Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota Strongly Oppose Commodity Cuts President Bush signs Central American Free Trade Agreement into law on Tuesday ProExporter Expects Ethanol Production to Exceed 8 billion Gallons by 2012. Japan Ends Mandatory Blanket BSE Testing Treasury Dept. Clarifies Cuba Rule to Allow Goods to be Paid to Third Party Glyphosate-Resistant Marestail Confirmed In California Over Half Of U.S. Farms Have Internet Access Congress Sends Energy Bill to President Beef Leaders Confident Markets Will Stay Strong, Despite Latest Questionable BSE Test NASS Reports Farm Production Expenditures Up 5.1% In 2004 CAFTA Passes in House with Narrow Margin, Bill Now Heads to President Uruguay to File WTO Case Against U.S. Rice Producers Congress Finalizes Tax Incentives with Net Federal Cost Expecting to Be Close to $11.5 Billion Cow Sample Sent to Ames, Weybridge for BSE Testing CAFTA Showdown Set to Occur Late Wednesday Evening Monsanto Investigating Possible Glyphosate-Resistant Palmar Pigweed Energy Bill Touts 7.5 Billion Gallon Renewable Fuels Standard, Bill Expected to be Completed by Week's End Growers from 220 Watersheds to Receive $1 Billion for CSP Court Opinion Says Johanns Had Firm Basis for Border Rule, Chances Less Likely For Full Hearing Energy Bill Passage Looks Very Promising By End of the Week Energy Bill Deal Reached on MTBE Issue, Size of RFS and MTBE Issues Still Unresolved CAFTA Vote Expected Late Next Week Senate Confirms Dorr to Top Rural Development Post Montana Court Delays Permanent Injunction Case Mainstream Press Carries Negative Ethanol Message, Corn Growers Easily Dispute Study Rust Postules Identified in Georgia, Mississippi Sentinel Plots Farmers Can Extend CRP Contracts One Year If Contract Expires in September 2005 First Canadian Live Cattle Cross Border in Over Two Years House Appoints Energy Conferees, Hopes to Have Bill By End of Summer Johanns Says Border Reopening Could Happen in Days Court Overturns Preliminary Injunction on Canadian Cattle Imports House Passes Lock and Dam Improvement Measure 406-14 Rust Found in First Commercial Field for 2005 in Baldwin County, Alabama House Leaders Say CAFTA to Pass By Month's End Seattle Court Hears Border Case Appeal Today on Preliminary Injunction Experts Say Rust Spore Finds in Kentucky, Tennessee No Cause for Alarm Progress Made in Trade Tariff Reduction Cuts Thanks to EU, US Lead After G8 Summit Talks Illinois Jumps to Top Three Ag Exporting States, Pushing Texas to Fourth Johanns Breaks Ground with China on Beef, Biotech Issues Texas Cohorts Test Negative for BSE NAWG President Warns Against Getting Caught Up in Euphoric Subsidy Breakthrough WTO Director General Says WTO Negotiations in Serious Trouble NCBA Announces Animal ID Technology Partner for National Identification Needs Tropical Depression Cindy Raises Chances of Rust Spores Spreading North Markets Fall on London Bombings, Be Prepared for Heavy Liquidation Today Ag Energy Coalition Sets Goal of 25% Renewables by 2025, Moves Forward with Agenda Negative Ethanol Study Gets Little Traction USDA Proposes Legislation to Eliminate Step 2 Cotton Program, Export Subsidies Bush Issues Challenge Calling on Europe to End Ag Subsidies Monsanto, Argentina Break Off Talks on Biotech Soybean Fees Senate Passes CAFTA 54-45, House Gets the Trade Pact Next Alabama Reports Rust Find in Baldwin County USDA Announces Cow Confirmed with BSE Came from Texas Herd Sixth Florida County Finds Rust Physicians Organization Sues Dairy Trade Groups Over Dietary Claims DuPont Enters Collaboration for Yield-Boosting Effort CCMP Launches USA Raised Beef Senate Passes Energy Bill, 8-Billion Gallon RFS Mandate Included Taiwan Closes Doors to U.S. Beef USDA Not Revealing BSE Cow Origin CAFTA Sent to Congress for Final Approval WHO Endorses GMO Foods Because of Health and Development Benefits it Offers Breaking News: Second U.S. BSE Case Confirmed Friday Cargill Sells Futures Subsidiary to REFCO for Nearly $400 Million Rust Spores Found in Louisiana Spore Trap, Provides Early Warning System for Potential Disease Spotting EU Proposes Sugar Reform to Encourage Less Sustainable Producers to Exit Business EU Commission Wants End to States' Biotech Ban NCBA Concerned with USDA Protocol System Cargill, Codexis Create New Renewable Chemical Platform BSE Sample Arrives in England on Thursday New Milling Process May Make Ethanol Production More Economical Senate Finance Committee Approval of CAFTA Sets Ball in Motion for Vote Energy Bill Includes 8-Billion Gallon Mandate Will U.S. Comply with WTO Cotton Ruling? 'Weak Positive' BSE Cow Born Before Feed Ban Trade Exports, Imports Lower in April 2005. Deficit Reaches $35 Million Tropical Storm Arlene Remnants Could Potentially Carry Rust Spores As Far North as Kentucky Second BSE Tests on Previous Inconclusive Findings Reveal Conflicting Results Senators Hope to Sweeten CAFTA Sugar Deal with Compromise Beef Industry Gathers for BSE Roundtable at University of Minnesota House Approves Ag Spending Measure, Bill Now Heads to Senate Bill Hawks Resigns as USDA Under Secretary, Business As Usual Until Replacement is Named Senate CAFTA Hearing Focuses on Sugar Issues If EU Changes Sugar Policy, U.S. Won't Be Far Behind Cornell Study Takes In-Depth Look at Stacked-Trait Bt Corn WTO Ag Committee Chairman Says Doha Round Won't Fail G-20 Group of Countries Set Plans for Talks Ahead of December Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Cattle, Citizen Groups File Friend of the Court Brief in Favor of Border Closure EPA Upholds Efficacy of Ethanol Use in Cleaner Burning Gasoline Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court's Pork Checkoff Ruling Japan Finds Traces of Bt10 Corn in Shipments, Markets Not Affected Morocco FTA Expected to Boost U.S. Wheat Trade GAO Report Finds that Considerable Work Needed to Accomplish WTO Goals Bayer to Supply Tebuconazole for DuPont for Rust Fungicides EPA CAFO Consent Agreement Attracts Lawsuit from Groups including Sierra Club WTO Battle Over Aircraft Subsidies May Have Impact on Ag Talks Korean Officials May be Closer to Reopening Borders to U.S. Beef Imports OIE Updates BSE Guidelines to Streamline Country Risk Status Unauthorized Bt10 Found in Ireland Corn Shipment Ethanol Production Continues to Climb Pew Initiative Finds More Biotech Legislation is Tackling 'Next Generation' Biotechnology Senate Action Doubles Renewables in Fuel Supply USDA Updates Trade Picture, Surplus Expected to Reach $2 Billion Capitol Hill Rally Pushes CAFTA Going into Memorial Day Recess USDA Closes Border to Cattle from Durango, Mexico Monsanto Reiterates its YieldGard Rootworm Corn is Safe Analysis Shows Benefits of 8 Billion RFS Mandate Updated: Supreme Upholds Checkoff as Constitutional, Checkoff Found to Be Government Speech GAO Report Reveals Holes in Rust Preparedness Bush Outlines Aggressive Trade Agenda, CAFTA Top Priority EU Fails to Approve Pioneer/Dow and Monsanto Corn Varieties Monsanto Refocuses on the Farmer With Emphasis on Seed and Trait Business OIE May Change BSE Standards, Opening Door to More Boneless Cuts Trade Reestablishment Congress Introduces Bills to Extend Biodiesel Tax Credit Ag Coalition Calls for Congress to Act on Lowering Natural Gas Prices with Energy Bill Producers Have Until June 1 to Sign-Up for Direct and Countercyclical Payments Johanns Plans BSE Roundtable to Get the Facts Out about Border Situation Researchers Use Sensor Technology to Reduce Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Small Surplus Seen in U.S. Ag Trade Picture for March, Keeping Balance Tipped to U.S. Ag Secretary Mike Johanns Approves $1.2 Million in Soybean Rust Monitoring Funds Those Against Opening U.S. Border to Canadian Beef Play 'Dangerous Game' - Johanns Harkin, Bayh Urge Ethanol Relief for High Gas Prices Dorr Vote Moves to Senate Floor Without Committee Vote Crop Insurance Commissions Are Already Too Tight Bill Promotes Flexible Fuel Vehicles Cotton Groups Vote to Support CAFTA Vote on Crop Insurance Discount Plans Could Come Soon Economist Says Biotech Wheat Introduction Still Risky Biotech Industry Celebrates Planting of Billionth Biotech Acre Japan Takes Another Step in Trade Resumption New NAIS Timeline Calls for Full Mandatory Implementation by 2009 CFA Report: Ethanol Could Lower Gas Prices by 8 Cents Syngenta Seeds Wins Jury Verdict on Illegal Wheat Seed Sale 'Tsunami of Interest' in Securing U.S. Beef WTO Talks Reach Agreement on Tariff Calculations U.S. Animal Agriculture Vulnerable to Attacks Because of Importance to U.S. Economy House Introduces Voluntary COOL Bill Aimed at More Market-Driven Approach Costa Rica Yet to Ratify CAFTA Research Shows Glyphosate May Suppress Asian Soybean Rust Johanns Says U.S. Agriculture Vulnerable, but USDA is Taking Steps to Prevent Attacks NCGA Launches Weed Resistance Learning Center Johanns to Hold Farm Bill Listening Sessions Citizens Can Sue Pesticide Makers for Damage Congress Budget Includes $3 Billion in Ag Cuts Portman Gets Senate Nod for Head Trade Rep Post Long-term Insecticide Use Causing Neurological Problems for Farmers Survey Finds Consumers Prefer New Food Pyramid Compared to the Old Conner Approved in Senate for Deputy Secretary Post Rust Found in Georgia Cuba Rule Resulting in $300 Million in Lost Trade Harkin Greets Dorr Nomination with Same Criticism Japan Looking to Incorporate Bt10 Test GAO: NAFTA Yet to Reach Its Potential EU Urges Member Countries to End Biotech Ban Taiwan Receives First U.S. Beef Shipments U.S. Delegation Visit Fails to Resume Beef Trade EU Approves Bt10 Diagnostic Test House Approves Energy Bill, MTBE Provision Included Led by Sugar Groups, CAFTA Opposition Gains Momentum Former Ag Secretaries Support CAFTA WTO Negotiations Broke Down Tuesday U.S. Will Comply with WTO Cotton Ruling Fast Food Groups Push WTO Negotiations ISU to Test Asian Soybean Rust Fast Track System This Week New Food Guide Shows Steps to a Healthier You Payment Limits Still on President's Agenda President Begins Energy Bill Push Canada Wants WTO, NAFTA Settlement to Resolve Beef Border Issue New Rust Identified in Florida Syngenta Bt10 Detection Test to be Ready in Days Iraqi Wheat Purchase Causes Controversy Food Security Tightened with Voluntary Program Sentinel Soybean Plots in 26 States to Help Detect Rust Former Inspectors Criticize U.S. Handling of BSE February Ag Trade Balance Tips In Favor of U.S. House Passes Death Tax Repeal Act Cloned Beef and Milk Meet Industry Standards EU Biotech Situation Haunts Corn Market Canada Farmers Sue Canadian Government for BSE Negligence Study Supports CAFTA Passage EU Considers Suspending U.S. Corn Gluten Imports Current WTO Negotiations Make Poor Countries Vulnerable, Oxfam Report Says Grains Council Team Assesses South-African Biotech America Rice Returns to Iraqi Market Syngenta Settles with USDA Over Unintended Corn Senate Introduces Lock Modernization Act Taiwan to Reopen Market For U.S. Beef Products on April 16 Dow AgroSciences Launches DefeatSoybeanRust.com Canada Pork Subsidies Don't Cause U.S. Injury, ITC Says Japan Approves Stacked Biotech Corn Event Demonstrators Protest U.S./Thailand Free Trade Agreement Can Spring Weather Dampen Yields? EU Seeks Clarification on Syngenta's Biotech Seed Mix-up President's Budget Proposal Has Modest Effects on Farmers Johanns Reconfirms Position on Free Trade During Cairns Group Meeting President Asks for Trade Promotion Authority Extension Rust Has Little Impact on Planting Intentions, Cutting Only by 2% Japan Delivers 1.2 Million Signatures Asking for Resumption of Beef Trade Administration Pushes CAFTA, Sugar Indusry Stands in the Way Study Finds Ethanol Production Results in Positive Energy Balance $22.8 Million Available for Renewable Energy Use on Farms, Rural Communities Trade Resumption with Japan One Step Closer Florida Confirms 2nd Soybean Rust Find in Hernando County Japan Identifies 16th BSE Find Taiwan Sets U.S. Beef Resumption Date for April 16 Monsanto Brings Biotech Research Company In-house Pork Producers Hold Line on Breeding Herd Expansion Biotech Mix-up Taints Synenta Corn...Food Safety Not Compromised Ethanol Futures Contract Launched at CBOT CSP Sign-up to Start Monday Egypt Lifts Ban On U.S. Beef Products Canadian Associations File for Standing in R-CALF vs. USDA Suit Study Finds GMO Fields Affect Wildlife G-20 Remains Committed to Fighting Ag Subsidies USDA Requests an Appeal on Candian Border Ruling Senate Agrees to Ag's 'Fair Share' of Budget $2 Million Redirected to Enhance BSE Research, $5 Million to Strengthen Food Security Herbicides Save Farmers $21 Billion Ohio Representative Selected for Top Trade Negotiator Canadian Cattlemen Proceed with NAFTA Action Seeking Over $300 Million for Closed Border FAPRI Projects Above Average Income for U.S. Farms, But Not as Strong as 2004 CAFTA Battle Begins on Capitol Hill The Law of Unintended Consequences at Play in Canada Border Situation Traits Development Accelerated with MGI, Monsanto Partnership NCBA Says New Report Shouldn't Impact Beef Negotiations Monsanto Clears Regulatory Approval for Roundup Ready Flex Cotton Ruling Protects Livestock Producers from Needless Regulations January Trade Surplus Squeaks Out at $325 Million Harkin, Durbin Shed Light On Shortcomings In U.S. Anti-Bse Efforts Conner Makes Job Switch to No. 2 USDA Post Payments Limits Included in Senate Budget 6 Billion Gallon RFS Legislation Introduced, 20% More than Last Time Previous Introduction Crop Disaster, Livestock Program Sign-up Starts Monday Goodlatte Says Ag Negotiations in Trouble Food Supply Threatened by Too Few Inspectors Congress Proposes Deeper Budget Cuts Than President Bush Urges Japanese Minister to Resume Beef Trade Project Launched to Map Soybean Genome Getting Your Crops Insured Will Be Worth it in 2005 Rabobank & Anderson Clayton Enter Financing Alliance Golden Harvest Outlines High-Tech Crop Plans for 2006 Season Court Sides with Monsanto in Class Action Request New Pork Message Encourages Younger Consumers to Not Be 'Blah' Mosely Resigns from USDA No. 2 Post to Return Back to Farming AMI Request to Restore Full Beef Trade Denied Commerce Dept. Imposes 10.63% Antidumping Duties Brazil Officially Approves Use of Biotech Crops Border Reopening Could Increase Cattle Prices From the Farmyard to the Brickyard All Commodity Programs Threatened with Latest WTO Brazil Cotton Case Ruling House Supports Canada Border Reopening Judge Orders Temporary Injunction Preventing Border Reopening Rust Found Overwintering in Florida Senators Call for End of Beef Embargo in Letter to Japanese Ambassador NC+ Hybrids Joins American Seeds, Inc. Team ASA Voting Delegates Set Policy Direction for 2005-2006 Energy Leaders Work for 25 by '25 Vision More Glyphosate Resistance Ahead For U.S. Farmers Middle, Lower Canopy Penetration Is Key To Soy Rust Coverage Checkoff Group Ahead of the Game on Soybean Rust Efforts Ag Secretary Stumps for Budget Cuts USDA Says Canada Feed Ban Is Sufficient Report Hopes to Help Producers Take Ownership of Grain Belt Agriculture Wheat Growers Reveal 'A New NAWG' To Create More DC Clout Trade Balance Remains in U.S. Favor in 2005 Farm Program Cuts Could Hit Row Crop Growers the Hardest Border Reopening Rules Will Gradually Increase Number of Canada Live Imports OIE Files Brief In Favor of USDA Minimal Risk Rule Treasury Dept. to Require Cuba to Prepay for Goods Deadline Extended for the Bottom Line Business Strategies Session Brazil In A Position To Export Ethanol Wheat Consolidation Vote Fails Tracy: China Offers Opportunity For Wheat Census Shows Over 3 Million Farm Operators Run 2 Million U.S. Farms USDA Report Finds Illegal Beef Imports Entered U.S. Monsanto Acquires Emergent for $300 Million USDA is Able to Change Proposed Minimal-Risk Rule Legally Payment Limit Legislation Introduced Identical to President's Proposal Agriculture Commodity Prices Continue Long-Term Decline Syngenta Releases Gene Information for Late Blight Disease to Public Diverse Groups Team Up Over Artificial Sweetener Claims U.S. Dollar Expected to Strengthen in 2007 Causing More Pressure on Ag Exports Ag Trade Balance Tips in Favor of U.S. Farmers Senators Look to Block Canadian Border Reopening House Ag Members Unite to Fight Against Proposed Budget Cuts Court Orders USDA to Disclose Biotech Fields in Hawaii $22 Million EQIP Funds Given to 17 States UN Official Says North American BSE Cases Are Isolated Incidents Johanns Wants Beef From Cattle Older than 30 Months Removed from Minimal Risk Rule Ag Industry Reaction Mixed for Budget Proposal U.S. Landcare Delivers Triple Bottom Line NRCS Chief Says Resource Conservation Is On The Move Japan Agrees to Grading System USDA Budget Proposal Cuts $2.6 Billion and Calls for Payment Limitations Ag Secretary Outlines Early Budget Increases, Talks about Trade USDA's Rural Development Chief Talks about Challenges Ahead NCBA Trade Delegation Offers Insight into Canada Beef Situation Is the Cattle Industry Ready for Restructuring? Ethanol Use Encouraged in State of the Union Address CSPI Says Ag Biotech Cupboard Remains Bare in Product Development Pesticide Costs Should Lower with New Agreement R-CALF Asks for Injunction to Keep Border Closed Cuba Questions U.S. Commitment to Trade Expect Ag Funding Cuts in Bush's Budget Proposal Ethanol Production Continues Surge, Setting All-time Monthly Record Congress Introduces Bills for Permanent Estate Tax Repeal Biotech Cotton Making Huge Global Strides As Usage Increases Cargill Names Corn-Based Plastics Business NatureWorks LLC Chinese Authorities Issue Ideas to Ramp up Country's Agriculture Bayer CropScience, Cargill Form Alliance for New Canola Lines NCGA Disputes 'West Wing' Ethanol Discussion UN Organization Urges Biotech Monitoring BSE Less Likely to Cross Species Barrier NCBA Trade Team Prepares Report Johanns Pushes for Japanese Trade Resumption Date Farm Bill Hearings Planned for Late 2005 Merial and Boehringer Ingelheim Co-Market SUREHEALTH Johanns Completes First Day at USDA Monsanto Acquires Fruit, Vegetable Seed Dealer Air Emissions Agreement Struck Cargill Buys Corn-based Plastics Business Johanns Confirmed As New Ag Secretary Japan Trade Resumption 'Close At Hand' Veneman Bids Farewell to USDA Employees Expect 10% Lower Yields in Brazil Veneman Accepts Lead UNICEF Position Report Details Monsanto's Patent Suits Against Farmers R-CALF Asks for NCBA Help in Border Fight WTO Addresses Institutional Challenges World Bank Report Tags Subsidies, Tariffs Soy Protein Matches Well to New Dietary Rules Worldwide Biotech Use Growth Continues Dow Granted Healthy Oils Patent Over Cargill New Dietery Guidelines Stress Exercise, Calories AFBF Supports Border Rule if Based on Science R-CALF Sues USDA Again Canada Has Another Case of BSE 2005 Decisive Year for U.S. Trade Giuliani Talks Ag at AFBF Convention USDA, AFBF Say Sound Science is Only Way NCBA is Reconsidering Canada Border Position Veneman Announces Biobased Procurement Rule Beef from BSE Cow May Have Reached U.S. Ag Committee Approves Johanns for Ag Post Survey Finds High Level of IRM Adherence Zoellick Heads to State Department NCC is Hard at Work on Cotton Trade Issues Sorghum Sequence Donated To Public Domain CCI Looks to World to Boost Cotton Consumption NRCS Needs to Improve TA Estimation Methods CCC Rates Announced for January 2005 Canada Confirms BSE Find Canada Has Suspect BSE Case Agreement Reached on Korean Rice Imports R-CALF Gears Up For Border Fight Industry Surprised by Hog Report Numbers Canada Eligible to Export Live Cattle to U.S. Dominican Republic Repeals HFCS Tax Are Consumers Giving Up On Fewer Carbs? FF Editor to Speak at Chicago Farmers Meeting South America Puts Soybean, Corn Prices Under Pressure New Manure Nutrient Standard Nears Completion Farm Groups Monitor Administration Budget Promises Deere Enters Leasing Deal for Equipment Sales to Russia Seed Treatment Now Available for Soybeans Chambliss Takes on Senate Ag Committee Apple Imports to Taiwan Halted Meat Inspectors: Packers Not Meeting New BSE Rules USDA Grants Offer Conservation Partnership Help October Ends with Trade Surplus EU Approves Roundup Ready Corn 2 for Food Use Food Supply Vulnerable to Pharmaceutical Crop Contamination Court Rules in Monsanto, Dow's Favor in Bt Corn Technology Lawsuit Glyphosate Resistance Found in Ragweed Corn Yield Contest Winners Reach New Levels Grading System to Verify Cattle Age Leavitt Named to Head HHS Proposed Cuba Regulations May Be Illegal Estimate Production Costs with IP Calculator EU Can't Halt Global Use of GMOs Supreme Court Hears Checkoff Case Report: Biofuels Can Aid Energy Shortage Senate Approves Specialty Crop Act Technical Assistance Funding Fixed Jamaica Opens Doors to U.S. Beef See If You're Eligible for CSP Ag Trade Balance Jeopardizes Farm Support Neb. Gov. Mike Johanns Named New Ag Secretary Concerns Exist with Local Biotech Management FCSA to Pay Rabobank $10 Million Nine States Detect Soybean Rust CCC Interest Rates Set Starband Internet Users Out of Service UK Study: GM Crops Pose No Threat Syngenta, DuPont Call A Truce Higher Farm Income Boosts Rural Main Streets Omnibus Spending Bill Hits Snag European Sanctions Could be Approved Friday Public Opinions of Biotech Remain Mixed BSE Results Negative in Final Test HFCS Not to Blame for Obesity Internet New Favorite Marketplace Cotton Subcommittee Formed for WTO Trade Talks Thanksgiving Dinner Remains Affordable Mandatory Price Reporting Extended Soybean Rust Confirmed in Florida Syngenta Closes or Reduces Capacity at 12 Locations More Soybean Rust Found in Louisiana and Mississippi Monsanto Forms American Seeds, Inc. Mandatory COOL Under Attack Veneman Resigns USDA Head Post Trade Negotiators Hammer Out Ag Issues Funding Key Concern for NAIS Nitrogen Prices Trend Up Soybean Rust Found in Louisiana Taiwan Visit Scheduled For Next Week EU Files WTO Complaint Against U.S., Canada USDA Increases Net Farm Income Forecast Agriculture Generating Trade Deficit Now's the Time to Test Soil Levels Taking Corn to a New Level Soy Consumption is a Matter of Taste FSA County Committee Elections Underway FCSAmerica CEO Resigns Canada Border Rule Expected 'Within Days' Improving Ethanol Production Efficiencies Rural Vote Helps Secure Bush Win Daschle Loses Senate Race 200 Watersheds Selected for CSP 'Friendly' Disaster Implementation Needed USDA Announces 2nd Round of Animal ID Funds Tight Corn Supply Coming? Japanese Consumers Unsure About U.S. Beef Increase in Feeder Pig Prices Will Be Offset Japan Resumes Trade with Canada Too Sequence Herbicide Registered for Use on Soybeans Price Positive Benefits Result from Agreements Taiwan Jumps Aboard Trade Train Roundup Ready 2 Corn Gets EU OK One Giant Step for Beef Trade Resumption Kerry Promises Rural Summit if Elected Bush Carries 12 Point Lead in Rural States Japan-U.S. to Resume Beef Trade President Signs Corporate Tax Bill Biotech Soybeans Now Legal in Paraguay Progress Made in Reducing Cost of Producing Ethanol First Partial CCP Payments Available FCSA Rejects Rabobank Buyout Offer Countdown to Election Study Endorses Economic Benefits of Biotechnology Record Crop Brings Challenges USTR Files Cotton Case Appeal Checkoff Case Set for December U.S. Corn Yields Up U.S. Set to Apply Antidumping Duties Serving Up Trans Fat Free Food Disaster Aid Opens Farm Bills How Low Can Low-Lin Soybeans Go? Dow Introduces High-Stability Canola Oil Textile Industry Files Safeguard Petitions Knocking Out Noxious Weeds Tips For Getting the Most From High-Priced Fertilizer Bill Combines All Food Agencies Into One Biodiesel Reaches Defining Moment Determine the Cost of Wet Corn at Harvest Japan Beef Trade Unlikely to Resume Until 2005 CSP Funds to Pay for Drought Aid Corporate Tax Bill Boosts Rural Needs New Low-Linolenic Soybean Enters Market Frosts Failed to Give Price Support Monsanto First to Invent Cotton Biotech Trait Adding More Value to the Soybean DCP Signup Underway Candidates Differ on Ag Strategies Food Prices Inch Higher in 3rd Quarter Conservation Programs Leads to Noncompliance Fighting Allergies with Research Japan's Ready to Talk Trade Fall Tillage Jeopardizes CSP Funding FCA Calls for Legislative Changes in FCS Driving Fat Out of Food CAFTA Support Hinges on HFCS Tax Soybean Group Seeks Young Leaders KCBT Offers Electronic Trading Ag Disaster Bill Faces Storm of Opposition Learn How to Manage Grain Tight Fertilizer Supplies Could Plague 2005 Senators Want FCS of America Hearings China Corn Stocks Unlikely Building How the Candidates Stack Up Demand Keeps Hog Producers in Black Ink eLDP Available Online Global Warming Less Severe in Central U.S. Strengthening Food Security Infrastructure Projections Made for October DCP Rates Searching for a Hypoallergenic Soybean AFBF Highlights Natural Gas Crunch Request and Receive LDP Payments Online Senator Tackles Ethanol Import Issue COOL Vote Fails in Senate Appropriations Committee NCGA Urges Congress to Look at Long Term Disaster Aid Tofu Makers Examine U.S. Soybean Industry Centers Reorganized to Protect Natural Resources Syngenta Prevails in China Patent Suit Taking Advantage of Corn LDPs Brazil Senate Set to Vote on Ending GM Crop Ban Mexico, Japan Sign FTA Campaigning for Agriculture U.S. Needs Strategy Against Agroterrorism NMA Seeks to Enter BSE Litigation