Agriculture Dept. Offers Grouse Funding
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The Agriculture Department offered &#36;2 million Thursday to help private land owners in four Western states protect the habitat of the sage grouse.
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WASHINGTON - Farmers received $2.9 billion in drought and disaster assistance tacked on to a $11.6 billion hurricane relief package that itself was tacked on to a $10 billion bill to fund military construction today.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 15  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today announced the investment of nearly $77 million to protect Pennsylvania's farmland. In addition, $14 million was approved for the preservation of 47 farms totaling nearly 5,000 acres.
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The World Bank has approved a $13 million grant to help combat the threat of the deadly bird flu in the West Bank and Gaza, the development institution announced Friday. The money will be used to help minimize any threats of the bird flu posed to people from the area's domestic poultry industry, it said.
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period
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SANTA FE, NM -- A coalition of environmental groups plans to sue the federal government over its failure to list the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse as an endangered species.
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Poultry farmers who participate in a   program to prevent the spread of diseases would be fully   compensated for loss of birds and equipment if low-pathogenic   strains of avian influenza are found, the U.S. Agriculture   Department said on Friday.
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The Bush administration agreed Tuesday to pay California farmers $16.7 million to compensate for water the government held back to preserve two imperiled fish species in the early 1990s, a pact that some legal experts said will make it harder for the federal government to protect endangered species.
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Officials on Monday disbursed $1.8 million in federal money for North Dakota ranchers who lost forage to drought.  The money was provided to the state through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Livestock Assistance Grant Program.
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By Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 24--A large-scale hog production business in Forest River, N.D., has  received a $71,000 grant from the North Dakota Agricultural Products  Utilization Commission.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 24--Greeley and Weld County received several million dollars this year from special funding requests by U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo.
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By Anonymous  WASHINGTON - Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg announced Friday a $247,500 grant for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  The money will be used for the organization's new headquarters in Missoula.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 22--Speakers at the Colorado Agricultural Outlook Forum Wednesday in Denver offered varying ideas for farmers to make their operations more environmentally friendly.
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Virginia has $5 million in grant money available for localities, public agencies and nonprofit groups to conserve land.  The grants are available through the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation, which works to protect historic or environmentally important lands.  Gov. Timothy M.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised U.S. farmers billions of dollars in disaster aid, along with research money toward new forms of ethanol, the renewable fuel spurring an economic bonanza for rural America.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years
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Taxpayers are funding a telescope to  search for space aliens and research devoted to improving the  shelf-life of vegetables, part of $13.2 billion in  special-interest projects the U.S. Congress approved last year,  a private watchdog group said on Wednesday.