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Backers of food aid reform vow to push forward

The Obama administrations effort to shift more international food aid away from U.S. commodities is struggling to gain any traction on the Hill, despite some success in the farm bill and strong support from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Part of the reason may be the st
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Wheat growers hope to buoy up their sinking ship

After watching U.S. wheat acreage and production slide steadily for 18 years, the National Association of Wheat Growers has had quite enough and is coming out swinging. The counteroffensive, called simply the Wheat Action Plan, right now is conceptual,
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Roberts presses USDA to send out ARC, PLC payments

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts is pushing USDA to get the new farm payments out the door to producers. The Farm Service Agency is required- starting this month- to send farmers the payments theyre owed for the 2014 crop year on the new Agriculture Revenue Coverage (A
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The search for better crop insurance data continues

With combines rolling across the country, yield monitors routinely share the good news of bumper crops and the not so good news of wet or drought-parched regions where little seemed to grow. All of this data, of course, can be used by USDA to establish the Actual Pr
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