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On-Farm Segregation Is Likely Result of Foreign Consumer Backlash American Corn Growers / May 31, 2000, Wednesday

LISBON, May 31 (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union on Wednesday agreed to establish a scientific panel to review issues at the heart of a dispute over trade in biotechnology products such as genetically modified food.

By Randall Mikkelsen QUELUZ, Portugal (Reuters) - President Clinton and European Union leaders began a summit Wednesday expected to focus on deepening trade disputes between the United States and Europe, the world's largest trading partners.

LISBON (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States will hold consultations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) next week on a U.S. plan to rotate sanctions on EU products in two trade disputes, EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said on Wednesday.

European Commission - DG Trade

New York Times | Elaine Sciolino

Choices for planting get tougher this year Farmers must weigh the risks of StarLink against potentially low bean yields. By JERRY PERKINS, Register Farm Editor / 03/18/2001 Soybean seed germination rates are low, and corn production costs are high as spring planting approaches.

March 18, 2001 / LEE EGERSTROM STAFF WRITER / St. Paul Pioneer Press Twice in a period of about three days, a milk tanker truck stops by the Wolf Creek Dairy farm at Dundas, near Northfield, to pick up about 50,000 pounds of milk produced by Paul and Barb Liebenstein's 400 Holstein dairy cows. "Paul always says that this is a 4-H Club project that got out of hand," said Barb.