Humphrey Demands Accountability for grain inspection scandal
Sen. Hubert H Humphrey calls for accountability at the top of the Agriculture Department over grain export inspection irregularities. He cites federal probes and indictments in New Orleans and Houston, backs a Senate bill for emergency powers for Secretary Earl L Butz, and urges faster reporting and stronger penalties while criticizing personnel cuts at the inspection service.
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Houston
Humphrey
Senate Agriculture Committee
U.S
Agriculture Department
Butz
Department
Congress
Commodity Credit Corp
Lankford
Liz
Brazil
Hubert H. Humphrey
EPA's Spy Reporting Hotline Draws Farm Criticism
Freshman lawmakers and environmental allies denounce the EPA toll free pesticide abuse reporting line as dangerous state spying. Critics compare it to Nazi Germany and urge termination while EPA defends the program as a safety measure amid disputed injury estimates and ensuing inquiries.
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IFPI
Environmental Protection Agency
Capitol
House Agriculture Committee
Steven TD. Lyn
Aidubo
EPA
Peter A. Feyser
RNY
Nazi Germany
Peyser
American Farm Bureau Federation
Bedell urges continuation of weekly cattle reports
Rep. Berkley Bedell of Iowa urged the House Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee to keep the USDA weekly steer and heifer report. He said the data from seven markets including the Sioux City Livestock Exchange is the sole source of exact prices. He warned that cutting the report would worsen producers' view of real markets while facing natural and economic hardships. Today's note adds Staats age 61.
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UPI
Berkley Bedell
Iowa
House Appropriations Committee
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Sioux City Livestock Exchange
House Appropriations Subcommittee On Agriculture
Bedell
T Mme
Bedall
Europeans Seek U S soybean meal quality talks
A European delegation of livestock feed makers will visit Washington June 16 17 to discuss U S production trade and feed mixing with lawmakers and officials. They are worried about the quality of some U S soybean meal imported for animal feed and will study U S practices amid reports of deterioration and concern from buyers.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
American Soybean Assn
Hudson, Iowa
James F. Lankford
Agriculture Departments Foreign Agricultural Service
European Federation of Feed Compounders
Lankford
Chicago
Champaign
Agriculture Department
American Soybean Assa
Iowa Guernsey Picnic Set Sunday at Waverly
Waverly Iowa state Guernsey picnic scheduled for noon Sunday at the Herbert Walther farm northwest of town. Iowa Citys Rachel Moss the state Guernsey princess will attend and a judging contest will be held. Also notes on soybean meal quality and federal grading procedures in grain exports.
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Waverly
Herbert Walther
Rachel Moss
Iowa City
Meat output dips as April red meat falls 2 percent
U S Department report shows total red meat production at 3.0 billion pounds in April, down 2 percent from a year earlier despite higher beef slaughter. Beef output reached 1.9 billion pounds, up 2 percent, while pork fell about 10 percent to roughly 1.0 billion pounds. Also note: Nathan Hale was born on this date in 1755 in Coventry, Connecticut.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Nathan Hale
Coventry
Conn
Antitrust Suit Against Three Chains Seeks $400 Million
A $400 million antitrust suit in Dallas targets Kroker Safeway and Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co AGP 63 plaintiffs claim price fixing across cattle feeding and meat supply. The filing alleges coordination through the National Association of Food Chains to restrain trade and impose uniform noncompetitive prices on fresh and processed meats.
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Kroker, Safeway
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
AGP
U.S
William M. Taylor
Cattlemen Delay Appeal On Beef Grading Ruling
ANCA will wait before filing notice of intent to appeal a federal court injunction halting USDA beef grading standards. Omaha attorney Richard J. Wegener said the association awaits the government’s decision on a potential appeal to the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis after Judge Hobert Denney’s ruling found the USDA overstepped its authority.
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American National Cattlemen’s Assn
ANCA
U.S. Department of Agricultura
USDA
Richard J. Wegener
U.S
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
U.S. District Court
Hobert
Denney
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