Homeland Security: Keeping America's Food and Agriculture Safe
Senate Meets Disaster Needs
Senate and House OK $2.9 billion assistance for ranchers
and farmers who suffered crop losses in 2003 or 2004.
Congress Counters Tariff Tax
President set to sign bill that counters European
Union's tariff sanctions against U.S. agricultural products. Eliminates
the FSC-ETI (Foreign Sales Corporation/Extra Territorial Income) corporate
tax and substitutes a tax provision to preserve and create manufacturing jobs
in the United States.
Florida Hurricane Disaster
Citrus signup now underway...nursery begins soon...vegetables
and non-citrus on Nov 9.
Direct
link to USDA disaster help
Farm Bill Answers
Conservation, loan rates, support sign-ups
New agricultural glossary...plus direct links to USDA resources, and new 24-Hr
Customer Statement.
One place for many sources
Farming's Future
• Biomass: Ag by-products
in energy production
Hearing
replay & testimony
• Conservation: Encouraging participation
Hearing
replay & testimony
Healthy
Forests
One year later, Forestry Subcommittee reviews
the first few months of local and state cooperation.
Read witness opening statements
How local communities
prevent wildfires from brush buildup and diseased trees.
Making a Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Child Nutrition Act Complete
President Bush signs "Child
Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004" - S. 2507
Full Text and background
Cattle Product Uses Limited
Makers of diet supplements and cosmetics
will stop use of some cattle parts in products.
Also, FDA may later plan to prevent those cattle parts from all
animal feed - including pet food.
• FDA fact sheet summary
of new rule
Detail
of
the rule (75 pages) free
pdf software
• BSE: "Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy" Sources and
documents
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