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		<title>“Analysis from Washington”- By Dan Morgan- Farm Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Farm Bill
By Dan Morgan- Dan is a special correspondent of The Washington Post and a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. “Analysis from Washington” is posted exclusively at FarmPolicy.com.    
The House and Senate batted farm bill proposals back and forth last week, squabbling over such familiar sticking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/%e2%80%9canalysis-from-washington%e2%80%9d-by-dan-morgan-farm-bill/</link>
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		<title>Reuters: Food Prices &#038; Doha; Wash. Post- “Harvesting Cash” Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commodity / Food Prices in the News
A news release issued on Friday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) stated that, “The cereal import bill of the world’s poorest countries is forecast to rise by 56 percent in 2007/2008. This comes after a significant increase of 37 percent in 2006/2007, FAO said today. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/reuters-food-prices-wash-post-%e2%80%9charvesting-cash%e2%80%9d-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Farm Bill Funding: Where Negotiators Are in the Context of Where They Have Been</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a better perspective on current Farm Bill negotiations regarding funding issues, a brief and very general snapshot overview of how lawmakers have moved over the past two months into the current circumstances is provided below.
At the conclusion of the funding background is a summary of more recent developments.

Farm Bill Funding Background
* February 12- David [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/farm-bill-funding-where-negotiators-are-in-the-context-of-where-they-have-been/</link>
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		<title>Farm Bill: Conferees Meet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday night, an update posted at the Senate Agriculture Committee Online indicated that, “Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives tonight appointed conferees to merge the Senate farm bill with the House of Representatives’ version.  The next step in the conference process will be formal conference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/farm-bill-conferees-meet/</link>
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		<title>House Names Conferees; WASDE Update- Food Issues; Doha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Farm Bill
Chris Clayton, writing yesterday at the DTN Ag Policy Blog, noted that, “The challenges with this farm bill right now come down to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., coming to some terms on how to provide the $10 billion in offsets that congressional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/house-names-conferees-wasde-update-food-issues-doha/</link>
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		<title>Farm Bill; High Prices and Conservation (New York Times); Trade Developments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philip Brasher reported yesterday at The Des Moines Register Online that, “Crop insurance agents could see their commissions cut to help pay for a new farm bill.

“The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson, said today that he’s proposing a cut in payments to agents and insurance companies that would vary according to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/farm-bill-high-prices-and-conservation-new-york-times-trade-developments/</link>
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		<title>Farm Bill: Sec. Schafer Elaborates on Possible Extension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reuters writer Charles Abbott reported yesterday that, “If Congress is close to wrapping up work on the new U.S. farm law, the Bush administration may allow some leeway on an April 18 deadline for the new law, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said on Monday.

“Disagreement between House and Senate tax committee leaders on how to pay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/farm-bill-sec-schafer-elaborates-on-possible-extension/</link>
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		<title>Doha, Global Commodity Issues, Biofuels and the Farm Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doha
Reuters news reported on Thursday that, “Ministers may not meet until May to hammer out a Doha trade deal, the head of the World Trade Organisation said on Thursday.

“‘I would be surprised if I needed the ministers in town before the end of April,’ WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy told Reuters at a meeting of African [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/doha-global-commodity-issues-biofuels-and-the-farm-bill/</link>
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		<title>Commodities and Food: Prices and Supply- Farm Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press writer Stevenson Jacobs reported late last week that, “Wheat prices shot up Friday as investors bet that a mix of wet and dry weather in wheat-growing U.S. states will damage crops and tighten supplies of the grain used to make bread, pasta and other foods.”
“Excessive dryness in parts of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/commodities-and-food-prices-and-supply-farm-bill/</link>
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		<title>Farm Bill Funding Still an Issue: Nutrition, Disaster Aid and Conservation Noted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reuters writer Charles Abbott reported yesterday that, “The chances to enact a new U.S. farm law before an informal April 18 deadline hinge on providing ‘very solid’ funding for anti-hunger programs, the Senate Agriculture Committee chairman said on Thursday.
“Chairman Tom Harkin told reporters he hoped for agreement within two days on how to pay for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aedec2007.org/2008/04/farm-bill-funding-still-an-issue-nutrition-disaster-aid-and-conservation-noted/</link>
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