Schafer becomes US ag sec'y amid farm bill fight
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The Senate confirmed millionaire  businessman Ed Schafer as U.S. agriculture secretary on Monday  amid White House threats to veto a $286 billion farm policy  bill.
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Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus says heÃ¢ÂÂs working on a package of spending offsets that could add billions of dollars to the farm billÃ¢ÂÂs bottom line Ã¢ÂÂ but with strings attached.
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President Bush on Thursday selected Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, a Republican attorney who grew up on an Iowa dairy farm, as secretary of Agriculture to oversee the nation&#39;s farm and food programs.
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Ottawa -- Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell is meeting with his US counterpart today in New York to lobby for an end to the costly mad-cow crisis, which began 15 months ago with the discovery of single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on a ranch
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Senators on Thursday urged President Bush' pick for agriculture secretary to work with farm-state lawmakers on the five-year farm bill that has stalled in talks between Congress and the administration.
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Telling consumers where their meat, fruit and vegetables came from seemed such a good idea to U.S. ranchers and farmers in competition with imports that Congress two years ago ordered the food industry to do it. But meatpackers and food processors fought the law from the start, and newly emboldened Republicans now plan to repeal it before Thanksgiving.
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Farmers are part of a national movement to legalize growing a plant that is closely associated with marijuana.
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US Farms, Inc. (OTCBB: USFI) today announced its engagement of Ascendiant Securities LLC, a nationally ranked investment banking firm and registered broker-dealer. Ascendiant will, on a best efforts basis, introduce US Farms, Inc.
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The Senate rejected two attempts to limit annual payments to farmers Thursday, frustrating lawmakers who had hoped that this year's multibillion-dollar farm bill would scale back the government's massive subsidy programs.
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The U.S. Senate early on Saturday  confirmed Jill E. Sommers, a Kansas Republican, to be a  commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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When freshman Ohio Democrat Zack Space replaced veteran Republican Rep. Robert W. Ney after the 2006 elections, groups lobbying for a major revamping of farm subsidy programs were elated.
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The United States has agreed to cut its  maximum agricultural subsidies in a &quot;significant step&quot; towards  advancing negotiations on a new global trade pact, the mediator  of the farm talks said on Thursday.
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By The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Mar. 4--The Bush administration is proposing an $87.8 billion farm bill that would cut overall agricultural spending, boost funding of conservation programs and reduce the number of wealthy farmers eligible for taxpayer subsidies.
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One of the nationâs best-known plaintiffâs lawyers, Richard Scruggs, is ensnared in legal drama involving federal conspiracy and bribery charges.
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LOS ANGELES - On Sept. 1, former secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman replaced the legendary Jack Valenti as president and CEO of Hollywood&#39;s trade group, the Motion Picture Association of America.
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WASHINGTON, June 19  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) expressed disappointment with today's House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management markup of H.R. 2419, the 2007 Farm Bill.
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By DIRK LAMMERS  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would entice farmers located near ethanol biorefineries to grow dedicated energy crops.  Sen.