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Senate Republicans want EPA to grant waiver on ethanol mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans on Monday asked environmental regulators to use their power to halt the country's ethanol output expansion plans amid rising food prices.
Twenty-two Republican senators, including presidential candidate Sen. John McCai...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Food vs. fuel debate heats up after Perry requests waiver
The food vs. fuel debate heated up last week after Texas Gov. Rick Perry requested a nation-wide waiver on the Renewable Fuel Standard as a quick solution to loweri...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Farm bill contains good things for Midwest agriculture
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farm bill negotiators rejected an attempt to prevent meatpackers from owning cattle more than two weeks before slaughter Thursday, a disappointment for ranchers in the Midwest and northern plains who have been pushing for the ban for man...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Crops winning out over conservation with high prices
LINTON, N.D. (AP) -- A portion of Ernie Roehrich's farm hasn't been plowed for two decades: It's part of a federal program that pays landowners to idle land for conservation.
Payments from the Conservation Reserve Program have helped during lean times. And...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Late cold snap puts chill on California vineyards
NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- April was a cruel month for California winemakers, bringing a series of unusually late frosts to vineyards baring the tender, green shoots of spring.
The damage still is being assessed -- it could be June before growers know the full ex...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Negoiators reach deal on farm bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional negotiators reached a tentative agreement Friday on a multibillion-dollar farm bill that includes a hefty increase for nutrition programs at a time of rising food prices.
An intense series of closed-door bargaining sessions...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Georgia county in spotlight over water rights
TRENTON, Ga. (AP) -- Residents of Dade County have spent much of their history feeling ignored by the rest the state. For decades people had to cut through Alabama or Tennessee to get to the county in the northwest corner of Georgia, and some residents sti...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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