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WASHINGTON (AP) - A worldwide surplus of grain and soybeans is likely to push prices for many commodities down again this year, given the big crops that farmers are planting this spring, the Agriculture Department said today.

May 15, 2000 / Environment News Service / Devinder Sharma

May 15/00 / Reuters / By Julie Vorman

May 15/00 / Reuters / By Julie Vorman

Co-Sponsored by Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy & the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA) Washington, DC, May 8 - Black and small family farmers, accompanied by law makers, unions and small farms advocacy organizations, rallied outside the USDA building, demanding an end to "decades of racial discrimination."

The New York Times / May 8, 2000 / By ANDREW KIMBRELL

By Paul Eckert BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the European Union ended their first day of trade talks Monday with the EU saying it needed more time to hammer out a deal that would help pave the way for China's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The absence of a deal with the EU is the biggest remaining obstacle to China's membership.

May 11, 2000 / Western Producer / Barry Wilson / Ottawa bureau Canadian Alliance MPs were cited as saying during an all-day House of Commons debate last week that mandatory labeling for food containing genetically altered material would cost the food system billions of dollars and sharply reduce farm incomes.