Ag May Add Black Farmers to Subsidy Panels
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The Agriculture Department plans to put more black farmers on the committees that have oversight in how federal farm subsidies are allocated.
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The Bush administration proposed changes yesterday to a little-used agricultural guest-worker program that would provide incentives for farmers to hire foreigners legally.
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Low-income families eat better when given vouchers to farmers' markets.
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By Jenifer K. Nii Deseret Morning News  Utah farmers are offering mixed reviews of the 2007 Farm Bill proposals, rolled out this week by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
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By Greg Edwards, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 26--Every few years, the gaze of Virginia farmers falls beyond the edges of their fields toward Washington, where lawmakers are crafting another farm bill.
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As President Bush nominated Samuel Bodman as the nation&#39;s next energy secretary Friday, the US Department of Agriculture reported more of the nation&#39;s corn crop will be used for ethanol production this year.
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Farm-state senators are increasing their request for drought relief dollars by half, saying the nation's farmers now need an estimated $6 billion or more in assistance.
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The nation's various black farm groups formed a coalition Tuesday to pursue claims that the government discriminates against them in loans and farm programs.
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The U.S. government has shortchanged minority farmers, providing them with a fraction of the aid given to their white counterparts, Oxfam said in a report on Thursday, as the aid and advocacy group pushed Congress to craft legislation reversing decades of exclusion.
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By Matthew Wilde, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Feb. 4--WATERLOO -- Agriculture experts say they would be surprised if Northeast Iowa farmers experience a negative impact from proposed changes to the farm bill.
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The Senate on Friday approved a $286 billion farm bill with an election-year expansion of subsidies for growers and food stamps for the poor.
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Farm bloc lawmakers yesterday offered the U.S. fruit and vegetable industry $1.8 billion in new federal grants over the next five years as part of a farm bill that would leave in place far larger subsidies for grain, cotton and dairy producers.
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Ever since Colorado passed tough immigration laws last year, farmers have worried that the immigrant laborers they depend on to plant and harvest their crops will not  show up in the fields this season. So, a state legislator has proposed a novel idea: Send in the prisoners.
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Latin America's agricultural giant scored two trade victories Wednesday against rich countries' farm subsidies after the World Trade Organization agreed with Brazil that its farmers have been hurt by government assistance for U.S. cotton farmers and European Union sugar beet growers.
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By LIBBY QUAID  WASHINGTON - Demand for ethanol for cars will attract enough support to lead to passage of a major farm bill next year, despite disagreement on subsidy payments for farmers, a key Democrat and the Republican agriculture secretary agreed Tuesday.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 18 (IPS) - Europe is undermining its own efforts to strengthen  African agriculture by foisting free trade on the continent, a  Ghanaian farm leader has complained.
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GlaxoSmithKlineâs effort to focus Avandiaâs marketing on African-Americans could backfire as questions arise.