Agriculture

Trade Restrictions Hang over Farm Legislation

Associated Press | September 3, 2001 | By PHILIP BRASHER, AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON - As lawmakers spend the fall overhauling federal farm programs, they will have to keep one eye on an international trade agreement that could limit how much money they give to growers.

NAFTA Doesn""t Treat All Farmers Equally

Dallas Morning News | September 3, 2001 | BY: JIM LANDERS WASHINGTON - When the coffee beans were ripe, there was no sense picking them. World prices were too low. When the sugar cane fields warmed, there was no sense in planting. Refiners haven't paid growers for many months.

Agricultural Groups Mount Campaign against Australian Free Trade Agreement

International Trade Daily | August 31, 2001 | By Chris Rugaber

Peasants Demand: "End Global Hunger! WTO Out of Agriculture!"

Press Release | August 28, 2001 | From PEASANT MEETING, 26-27 August 2001, Bangkok, Thailand

FSC Ruling Sets Stage For EU Muscle At WTO Negotiating Table

By SALLY SCHUFF Feedstuffs Washington Editor WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling last week that found tax breaks for U.S. foreign sales corporations (FSC) constitute illegal export subsidies could have far-reaching implications on future agricultural trade negotiations.

Trade: Agricultural Limits Unmask Free Market Illusions

Inter Press Service | August 22, 2001 | By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian economists, scoffing at recent calls for liberalization of agricultural markets in Europe, the United States and Japan, say that the failure of developed countries to open their doors to farm imports reveals a double standard of practicing protectionism at home and preaching free trade for others.

Prices For Orchard Land Take Nosedive As Growers Bail Out

Puget Sound Business Journal | August 10, 2001 Orchard values in North Central Washington are collapsing because of the beating that apple growers are getting in the marketplace. Some land used for apple orchards has lost half its value, county assessors say, driving down prices to the lowest levels in 20 years.

Mexican Farmers Target Free Trade

Toronto Star | August 9, 2001 | By Will Weissert Protesters want subsidies, return to pre-Fox ways Thousands of farmers marched through the Mexican capital yesterday demanding subsidies and a halt to free trade posing the most direct challenge yet to President Vicente Fox's eight-month-old administration.

U.S. Groups Seek Protection Amid Concerns about a Glut of Cheap Fruits and Vegetables

Los Angeles Times | August 8, 2001 | By EVELYN IRITANI, Times Staff Writer SALINAS -- Early in his career, Richard Uchida heard Chinese farmers were starting to grow broccoli, celery and lettuce. "Give them 10 or 15 years," thought the young California vegetable broker, "they could be tough competitors." Uchida didn't have to wait that long.