Ranchers Due $6 Million in Aid
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By JOHN DOBBERSTEIN World Staff Writer  Drought assistance in the federal package for livestock producers will be distributed by Oklahoma agriculture officials.   Oklahoma will get about $6 million from the U.S.
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A utilities tax paid by the federal government will end up contributing about $6 million a year to finance a new baseball stadium in the District, offsetting some of the burden on local businesses.
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.
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The Western Colorado chapter of the American Red Cross has raised about $3,000 for relief efforts in South Asia since Tuesday morning.
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A major donor to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will benefit from $4 million in state financing for a road project providing access to a 6,000-acre real estate project the donor's company is developing.
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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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The House voted Monday to protect aid to farmers who convert to environmentally sound practices. The measure, now on its way to President Bush, would block the Agriculture Department from tapping some of the funding for administrative expenses. The USDA's use of program money for overhead costs farmers about &#36;150 million a year that could help them learn farming methods that protect air, water and wildlife, said Environmental Defense spokesman Scott Faber.
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The federal government and three western states joined forces to launch a $620 million project to restore wildlife habitat and protect endangered species along 342 miles of the lower Colorado River.
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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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A few years ago, American aid to Lebanon was measured in the number of dairy cows a U.S. program gave to farmers. Now it is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, plus military help, as Washington tries to prop up a government seen as threatened by Iran and Syria.
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BARTOW, Fla. -- Federal and state officials say Florida&#39;s agriculture industry, battered by an unprecedented rash of hurricanes, is eligible for $500 million in disaster relief funds.
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Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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WASHINGTON - The House pushed nearly $14.5 billion for hurricane victims and struggling farmers toward passage Saturday as lawmakers sought to shower money on Florida and other pivotal states in the upcoming elections.    After weeks of delay over everything from budget cuts to milk subsidies, House-Senate bargainers added the natural disaster aid to a $10 billion military construction measure...
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The US Senate gave final congressional approval yesterday to $14.5 billion in aid for states hit by hurricanes and drought and $32 billion for homeland
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Ending a six-week impasse, the Senate yesterday approved a $286 billion farm bill that would authorize significant new spending for farm programs, food stamps and conservation but would make only modest changes in the nation's traditional agricultural subsidy system.
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JARUCO, Cuba  - Down on the ranch, the talk among the cattle hands is that help is on its way.
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HELENA, Mont. -- Montana moved one step closer Saturday to establishing a long-awaited board to compensate ranchers who lose livestock to wolves.