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An NDP government would fight to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement to enhance protection for Canadian jobs, NDP leader Jack Layton said yesterday in Hamilton, Ont. "We want a new NAFTA.
This report for the first time estimates the methane emissions of five of the largest meat corporations and ten of the largest dairy corporations. Their combined methane emissions are roughly 12.8 ...
The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it's been in 70 years. In June, the price of ground beef rose over $6, the highest since ...
THE HINDU / August 21, 1998 / Pg. 10, Col. D. / By Chennai "Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and ...
By David Awbrey Senator has conspired against the very people who have voted for him all these years Suppose a few years ago, then-House Agriculture Chairman Rep. Pat Roberts and corporate lobbyists ...
In what has been described as its most important vote this year, the U.S. Congress will soon decide whether to provide permanent normal trade relations to China. A vote is required because, after 14 ...
Agence France Presse GENEVA, June 28 (AFP) - A new United States proposal on liberalising global agriculture includes a formula on cutting domestic support measures, trade sources said on Wednesday.
More than six years after Mexican trucking companies had expected full access to U.S. roads, change is coming, according to the acting transportation secretary, Maria Cino. She said that by the end of ...
NEW YORK - The New York Siting Board approved independent power producer Mirant Corp.'s application to build a large power plant along the Hudson River north of New York City, the board said in a ...
OTC (COMTEX Newswire) / Sat, Dec 23, 2000 GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- World Health Organization medical experts said Friday the global agency is concerned the mad cow disease and its fatal ...
New York Times / March 3, 1999 / By DAVID BARBOZA CHICAGO--Robert Shapiro, the chief executive of Monsanto Co., occupies a modest cubicle on the ninth floor of the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago ...
Springfield, Illinois - Representatives of an estimated 600 individuals, who formed a diverse alliance of 180 groups, recently called for an investigation into allegations that American Farm bureau ...