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Reuters / By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - Two thousand farmers sat down to a picnic-style lunch across the street from the U.S. Capitol on Monday, pointing to their paltry 39-cent share of the $8 meal's cost as evidence U.S. farm law must be changed.

March 21, 2000 / from a press release Wayzata, Minnesota -- Members of the Upper Midwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (GrainRAGE) shut down the international headquarters of Cargill today. Before employees arrived this morning, GrainRAGE members in white biohazard suits and respirators blocked the road into the Cargill compound with cars and their bodies.

The Agribusiness Examiner #67 / March 20, 2000 / A.V. Krebs, Editor/Publisher Faced with disastrously low commodity prices, unfair competition and bad government policy, family farmers from across the country will converge on Washington, D.C. today and tomorrow carrying a five-point plan for fixing what ails rural America.

March 22, 2000 / National Post / Editorials

Reuters / By Robert Evans GENEVA, March 23 (Reuters) - Long-awaited World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on removing barriers to freer global farm trade were launched on Thursday but diplomats said they could drag on for years.

March 21, 2000 / E-Markets

March 21, 2000 / from a press release Wayzata, Minnesota -- Members of the Upper Midwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (GrainRAGE) shut down the international headquarters of Cargill today. Before employees arrived this morning, GrainRAGE members in white biohazard suits and respirators blocked the road into the Cargill compound with cars and their bodies.

March 21, 2000 / Marshfield News-Herald / Reference No.: 3032 Will cranberries get caught up in the genetic engineering battleground? That's one of questions that Brent McCown, a professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explored when, according to this story, he spoke to members of the Noon Rotary Club Monday at the Marshfield Innkeeper.