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Inside D.C.
And so the final battle begins...
The deal is done, Congress is gearing up to pass the Farm Bill. Are there enough votes to override the President's promised veto?
Rural Issues Forum
The cost of ignorance
Those paying for college today take on a great deal of debt to prepare for the next phase of their lives. Education is expensive, but ignorance costs us
all a great deal more!
Innovations
Stine Seed pursuing efforts to improve soybean yields
Dr. Bill Eby, Director of Soybean Research for Adel, Iowa-based Stine Seed, says the company
is pursuing research across a wide range of areas in an effort to improve soybean yields. But he says progress comes with consistent effort year-in and year-out, not in one great leap forward.
Managing for
Profit
Strategies to use when wet weather forces late planting
With delayed planting from the wet spring comes the need for efficiency. University of Missouri Extension Agricultural Engineer Bill Casady says producers need strategies to help make up for lost planting
days.
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U.S. Ag Secretary Ed Schafer held a teleconference to blast
the House-Senate Farm Bill Conference Report. Not long after, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad and Senate Ag Committee Chairman Tom Harkin held a press conference of their own to defend the new farm bill. More
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Nebraska Beef Council
dietician honored
The Nebraska Dietetic Association late last month honored the Nebraska Beef Council's Kaiti Roeder as the 2008 Young Dietician of the Year. And Roeder tells Brownfield she loves her role in promoting Nebraska beef.
Humane Society of the U.S. targets auction markets 
The Humane Society of the U.S.
has released video taken during its own investigations at four livestock auction markets. The video, shot in the last month undercover at markets in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas and New Mexico, shows downer cattle in various states of distress or neglect.
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Schafer disparages, senators defend new farm bill
U.S. Ag Secretary Ed Schafer held a teleconference
to blast the House-Senate Farm Bill Conference Report. Not long after, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad and Senate Ag Committee Chairman Tom Harkin held a press conference of their own to defend the new farm bill.
"No one ever gets everything they want"
Wisconsin Democrat and House Ag Committee
member Steve Kagen says the farm bill from the conference committee is good for the agricultural economy, good for people and good for our health.
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