Sunflowers Could Get Boost From New Price Support
Kansas experts say a proposed 9 dollar per hundredweight sunflower loan rate may encourage farmers to diversify into sunflowers as an alternative crop. Sunflowers, mainly grown for cooking oils, are currently less profitable than soybeans, with Kansas showing 30,000 to 35,000 acres planted. Report cites Rep. Arlan Stangeland pushing the measure within the House farm bill.
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Arlan Stangeland
Rminn
Stangeland
Minnesota
Dakotas
Texas
U.S
Bill Stepmeier
Hays
House Says It Listens With Agent Orange Bill
The House approved a bill directing the VA to provide hospital care and medical attention to Vietnam veterans who believe their health issues stem from Agent Orange exposure. The measure, sent to the Senate, expands a VA study to compare veterans with peers and consider other factors beyond dioxin effects.
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Agent Orange
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Clark Returns To Radio With A Top 30 Survey
New York AP. Dick Clark returns to radio with The Dick Clark National Music Survey a three hour show. It develops around Cashbox Top 30 singles and features flashbacks from Clark's 25 year archive. Mutual Radio Network distributes the program aiming for hundreds of stations. Clark’s career spans from Rural Radio Network weather duties in Utica to WFIL in Philadelphia and Bandstand’s rise.
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Dick Clark
Clark
Cashbox
Mutual Radio Network
Mutual
ABC
Upstate New York
WRUN
Utica
WOLF
Syracuse
Syracuse University
WKTV
Philadelphia
WFIL
Mark
May Tornado Fatalities Record Stands With No Deaths
Kansas City AP May, normally deadliest month for tornadoes, reported no deaths from 208 twisters. Center cites forecaster improvements and luck. Lamar County Texas storm caused injuries but no fatalities. Year to date tornado deaths total 16, with 416 tornadoes reported this year.
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Fred Ostby
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Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Florida
Storms Center
Teamsters Ethics Debate Gets Downright Rancorous
LAS VEGAS AP The convention rejected a plan for an ethics committee amid anger over interim Teamsters President Roy Lee Williams indictment for bribery and accusations of organized crime ties. Dissidents urged a panel as Williams urged debate and an apology from a member who had doubted him. Williams, 66, pleaded innocence to federal bribery conspiracy claims linked to a Las Vegas land deal. Cannon was not charged.
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Diana Kilmoray
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British Columbia
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Roy Munson
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