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Government Bytes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Forbes.com has a series on everyone's favorite biofuel, ethanol. Links to the articles are below. Here is an interesting tidbit pulled from the "Getting There" piece that I had not heard before: The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates it will take roughly 2 million train carloads, 50 thousand barge loads and 20 million truck loads to move 20 billion gallons of ethanol to market....
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butner blogspot (Free subscription) | yesterday
Files Intent to Sue Letter with USDA and Michigan Department of Agriculture Falls Church, Virginia - Attorneys for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund today sent a Notice of Intent to Sue letter to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) over implementation of the National Animal Identification...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. Department of Agriculture finalized three rules designating new categories of biobased products as eligible for BioPreferred purchasing by all federal agencies and contractors.
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Department of Agriculture (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2008 -- Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer today announced the appointment of Aaron A. Barcellos of Los Banos, Calif. and Steve Cantu of Tranquility, Calif., to the Cotton Board. Barcellos and Cantu will fill member and alternate positions, respectively, on the board that became vacant due to resignations in 2007. Barcellos and Cantu will serve in their positions until the position...
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Docuticker (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Agricultural Productivity in the United States Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service It is widely agreed that increased productivity is the main contributor to economic growth in U.S. agriculture. This data set provides estimates of productivity growth in the U.S. farm sector over the 1948-2004 period, and estimates of the growth and relative levels...
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New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Department of Agriculture, instilling culture of agriculture in youth 15 May 2008 The Department of Agriculture is in the campaign to instil culture of agriculture in youth more especially the rural schools. Currently the department has a challenge of employing candidates who have a career in agriculture to fill the vacant posts that are in the...
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New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Graduation day of emerging farmers 15 May 2008 The Department of Agriculture cordially invites all journalists who report on agricultural matters to a graduation day of emerging farmer to become a commercial farmer at Gariep local municipality. The event will be held at 9 am on 21 May 2008 at Vaalrand farm (Venterstad) in Burgersdorp. The department is committed to expanding support for...
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Department of Agriculture (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Washington, D.C. - May 14, 2008 "For over a year, Congress has had the opportunity to work with the Administration to craft a farm bill that delivers reform to outdated, costly farm programs while strengthening the safety net and adhering to fiscal discipline in a time of nationwide economic challenge. Instead, Congress chose a different path, and today they passed a bloated, earmark laden bill that...
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beSpacific (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Medical Devices: FDA Faces Challenges in Conducting Inspections of Foreign Manufacturing Establishments, GAO-08-780T, May 14, 2008 U.S. Department of Agriculture:...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Department of Agriculture today finalized three rules designating new categories of biobased products as eligible for BioPreferred purchasing by all
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The Triangle Business Journal (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Six Wake County retailers have been fined for having excessive price-scanning errors, the N.C. Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services says.
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Delta Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Arlen Lancaster, has announced
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Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture has added new cost share opportunities to the Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program (TAEP).
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trucks world news (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
An anonymous caller tipped off the Georgia Department of Agriculture that one gas station was manipulating fuel pumps GA,USA - Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -May 13, 2008: -- ... Later, an investigation into three fueling stations that had been bought and sold three times in as many years showed that truck stop operators intentionally and repeatedly programmed pumps to ring...
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The Captain's Journal (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The Daily Sentinel in Iowa has an outstanding article on the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducting counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. Kingsley native Jeff Knowles looked down at the protective flak jacket, then turned to the soldier next to him. “Am I supposed to put this on now?” The soldier grinned, “If you don't I will.” Body armor is not in [...]
