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Don't Cut the Cheese

One of the world's great sensual experiences, exulted in daily across Europe, is illegal in the United States. That bite you may be about to take into an unctuous and intense young French raw milk cheese oozing off the edges of a chewy chunk of bread is against the law. No raw milk cheese aged for less than sixty days may be imported into this

Citrus, Sugar Seek Protection; Industries Want To Be Exempt From Trade Deals With Competing Nations

The citrus and sugar industries Wednesday argued they would not survive unless they are exempt from trade deals with competing nations.

Cargill Does Know How To Play The Trade Game

Who wants Brazilian ethanol imported to the United States through El Salvador? Cargill Corporation apparently does. That's why the National Corn Growers was upset by a May 6 report that Cargill will build a dehydration plant that will convert ethanol from Brazil into fuel-grade ethanol for the U.S. market.

A New Agricultural Policy for the United States

By Dennis Keeney, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade policy, and Loni Kemp with the Minnesota Project.  This report was produced for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop on Biodiversity and Sustainability on November 2002.

Farm Bill Outrage Goes Global

The WTO trade rules for agriculture and the U.S. Farm Bill share the same flawed vision for food production.

When Does It Pay To Plant Bt Corn?

Farm Bill Organizational Sign-on Letter

Sign-on letter from the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture containing seven provisions the farm bill absolutely must include.

How US Grain Export Projections from Large Scale Agricultural Sector Models Compare With Reality

Minneapolis - Grain export projections used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and agriculture policy-makers have consistently over-estimated actual exports, according to a new study by Dr. C. Phillip Baumel, a professor of economics at Iowa State University.

Shift Payments from Grain to ""Green""

This article by Dennis Keeney appeared in The Des Moines Register / April 8, 2001, Sunday 

Freedom to Fail: How U.S. Farming Policies Have Helped Agribusiness and Pushed Family Farmers Toward Extinction

By Ben Lilliston and Niel Ritchie. This article was published in the Multinational Monitor in the July/August, 2000 issue. The French version is included below.

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