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12/28/05
Crop News Weekly
Happy New Year! The final hours of the year are
slipping away quickly and the new year looms ahead with the promise of
new beginnings. Here's hoping your new year will be profitable and
rewarding and free of unexpected misery. Here's hoping, as always, that
congress, weather, science or economics will not get in your way or hold
you back, and that you will succeed this year like never before. Make it
so!
Heading up the spotlight this week, after setting records in soybean
exports and production this year, the 64 farmer-directors of the soybean
checkoff recently met to plan for the next round of success. One
important element in that success is a new leader. Also in the news,
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's weekly column deals with disaster
assistance for Gulf Coast residents and farmers. Read about what the
good Senator has to say. Elsewhere, farmers had more at stake in the
latest attempt to authorize oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge than they may have realized - like $1 billion in conservation
program spending, to be exact. Also this week, negotiators for U. S.
agriculture at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong
must play a finely tuned game of give and take. We want more market
access and they want less price support for U.S. farmers. And speaking
of politics, the Senate last week passed the deficit reduction omnibus
reconciliation bill after Vice President Dick Cheney cut short a trip to
the Middle East to return to Washington and cast the deciding vote.
You'll find these stories and more in this issue of Crop News
Weekly. Happy reading, and Happy New Year!
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Partnership
for success is soybean checkoff's focus
12/22/05
After setting records in soybean exports and
production this year, the 64 farmer-directors of the soybean checkoff
recently met at their annual board meeting to plan for the next round of
success. One important element in that success is a new leader. Curt
Raasch, a soybean farmer from Odebolt, Iowa, will serve as the 2006
chairman of the United Soybean Board (USB) and will lead the charge for
soybean farmers to continue building preference for U.S. soybeans at
home and abroad. "It is an honor to be elected by the board of directors
I have served with for the past eight years," says Raasch. - Farm
Press Editorial Staff
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of most troublesome weeds coupled unsurpassed crop safety, which results
in higher yields. Click
Here to see more information on Lexar.
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Sen. Trent
Lott: Playing Hardball
12/23/05
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's weekly column deals with
disaster assistance for Gulf Coast residents and farmers: "Before
Christmas the Senate completed work on three major pieces of Hurricane
Katrina recovery legislation totaling about $40 billion. As we all
remember, Congress and President Bush immediately made more than $60
billion available in relief funds just days after Hurricane Katrina hit
last August. $29 billion supplemental: Of the $40 billion Congress
provided for Katrina and Rita recovery on the eve of the Senate's
adjournment on Dec. 21, about $29 billion was contained in a
supplemental budget appropriation..." - Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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Conservation
funds removed from defense spending bill
12/22/05
Farmers had more at stake in the latest attempt to
authorize oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge than they
may have realized - $1 billion in conservation program spending to be
exact. The $900 million was removed from the defense appropriations bill
conference report Wednesday night after Senate Democrats and a small
group of Republicans forced Republican leaders to delete the ANWR
provision from the report. - Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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glyphosate, it's too late. We have to have a pre-emergence herbicide to
knock them out to get picture-perfect, high-performance fields. We are
managing to prevent glyphosate resistance on our farm, because
resistance will add cost. In corn, we use
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U.S.
Trade proposals at WTO create different outcomes
12/22/05
Negotiators for U. S. agriculture at the World Trade
Organization (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong must play a finely tuned game of
give and take. "What the United States wants is more market access and
less subsidized competition," said Pat Westhoff, international policy
analyst with the University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy
Research Institute (FAPRI). "What other countries ask is that the U.S.
sharply reduce domestic price and income supports to our farmers. Those
countries argue that our subsidies give U.S. producers an unfair
advantage in the world market." - The Corn & Soybean Digest
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Senate
passes reconciliation package
12/21/05
The Senate passed the deficit reduction omnibus
reconciliation bill after Vice President Dick Cheney cut short a trip to
the Middle East to return to Washington and cast the deciding vote. The
action, which wrapped up nearly a year of work by House and Senate
committees, occurred during a flurry of days-before-Christmas votes on
bills that were more remarkable for that they didn't do for farmers than
for what they accomplished. The deficit reduction omnibus reconciliation
the Senate passed by a 51-50 vote today, for example, did not contain
language that would have extended the commodity programs in the 2002
farm bill until 2011. - Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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Year in
Review: Perspectives And Outlook
12/22/05
Agriculture Road Warrior Dave Kohl writes:
"We've come to the end of another year by the calendar. This is my 244th
column since the beginning of this series as the Road Warrior, and it's
fun to sit back and reflect on 2005 and envision possible changes on the
agricultural landscape next year..." - The Corn & Soybean
Digest
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POPs
legislation introduced by Chambliss, Harkin
12/22/05
The chairman and ranking member of the Senate
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry have introduced
legislation that would put the United States "at the table" where
decisions on persistent organic pollutants or POPs are being made. The
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants or POPs, which
went into effect in May 2004, bans or severely restricts 12 crop
protection chemicals, nine of which are not available in the United
States. (The latter includes organo-chlorine compounds such as DDT.)
- Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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Winter
season agriculture shows
IT'S WINTER. Now is your chance to learn about the
latest farm products, technologies and research that can help boost
profits in the year to come. To help you in your homework, Farm Industry
News compiled a list of events that cover everything from combating fuel
costs to expanding your operation. - Jodie Wehrspann, Farm Press
Editorial Staff
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Cuba
and U.S. Wheat Associates sign agreement
12/21/05
Taking an historic and welcome step toward further
normalization of grain trade between Cuba and the United States, Cuba's
food buying agency has committed to purchase half a million tons of U.S.
wheat in the next calendar year. Representatives from U.S. Wheat
Associates, the industry's export market development organization,
traveled to Cuba on to meet with leadership of Alimport, the Cuban
government's official food importers. Recognizing the quality of U.S.
wheat and related products, as well as the performance of American wheat
growers and processors, Alimport agreed to purchase 500,000 metric tons
of wheat from American exporters in 2006. - Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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2006 Conservation Tillage
Conference & Expo
12/18/05
Want to improve your return on investment and learn
ways to improve the soil at the same time? Information about this and
other conservation-related topics will be the focus of the 2006
Conservation Tillage Conference & Expo February 1-2 in Sioux Falls,
SD.
The Conference is presented by Corn & Soybean Digest and Farm
Industry News magazines. The program is the collaborative effort of
agronomy and soils experts at Iowa State University, the University of
Minnesota, the University of Nebraska and South Dakota State
University.
For view the complete program, go to http://www/tillageconference.com.
Information to register is available at the site. You can also call
1-800-722-5334 to register.
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