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EU Wants to Reform Sugar Subsidy System

The European Union's head office tackled the sticky problem of sugar subsidies Wednesday, proposing price and production cuts to reform a system critics charge hurts farmers in poorer countries and consumers at home.

New EQUIP Payments

BISMARCK, N.D. A federal conservation program is handing out more assistance to farmers and ranchers across the Northern Plains and Montana this year. The government received nearly 8,000 applications from the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana for the Environmental Quality Incentive Program.

Better Deal Pledged For Poorer Countries To End Trade Deadlock

Leaders of the G8 industrial countries last night sought to end nine months of deadlock in global trade talks when they pledged a better deal for poor countries in an attempt to put negotiations back on track.

USDA Starts New Farm Conservation Program

Farmers and ranchers in 22 states can start signing up July 6 for a program that pays them to protect and improve natural resources, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. The Conservation Security Program will be available for producers in 18 watersheds, the department said. They will have until July 30 to seek a share of the program's $41.4 million.

Making Agricultural Trade Liberalization Work For The Poor

The following is the address delivered by Joachim von Braun, director-general of the IFPRI, at the WTO Public Symposium "Multilateralism at a Crossroads," Geneva, May 25, 2004. The International Food Policy Research Institute seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty.

Don't Cut the Cheese

One of the world's great sensual experiences, exulted in daily across Europe, is illegal in the United States. That bite you may be about to take into an unctuous and intense young French raw milk cheese oozing off the edges of a chewy chunk of bread is against the law. No raw milk cheese aged for less than sixty days may be imported into this

Citrus, Sugar Seek Protection; Industries Want To Be Exempt From Trade Deals With Competing Nations

The citrus and sugar industries Wednesday argued they would not survive unless they are exempt from trade deals with competing nations.

Cargill Does Know How To Play The Trade Game

Who wants Brazilian ethanol imported to the United States through El Salvador? Cargill Corporation apparently does. That's why the National Corn Growers was upset by a May 6 report that Cargill will build a dehydration plant that will convert ethanol from Brazil into fuel-grade ethanol for the U.S. market.