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Trump budget plan cuts USDA food, rural water funding

By Jo Winterbottom, P.j. Huffstutter March 16, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed halting funding for rural clean water initiatives and reducing county-level staff, for a 21 per cent drop in discretionary spending at the Department of Agriculture (USDA), according to a White House budget document. The $4.7 billion in cuts would leave USDA with a budget of […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

Bird flu found in Tennessee chicken flock

By Jo Winterbottom March 5, 2017

Reuters — A strain of bird flu has been detected in a chicken breeder flock on a Tennessee farm contracted to U.S. food giant Tyson Foods, and the 73,500 birds will be culled to stop the virus from entering the food system, government and company officials said on Sunday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said […] Read more

A street-side vendor stands on the pavement next to her cow as it rains in Mumbai July 10, 2013. The vendor sells grass stalks to passersby for five to 10 Indian rupees (US11-22 cents), which are then fed to her cow.

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In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

By Jo Winterbottom, Meenakshi Sharma January 9, 2014

Reading Time: 5 minutes One night last August here, an angry mob ran amok on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, burning trucks and government property and forcing traffic to halt and factories to shut. The rioters were incensed over an issue arguably as old as India itself: the eating of beef, which the country’s majority Hindus have considered sacrilegious for at […] Read more

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In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

By Jo Winterbottom, Meenakshi Sharma December 25, 2013

Reading Time: 5 minutes Reuters / One night last August here, an angry mob ran amok on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, burning trucks and government property and forcing traffic to halt and factories to shut. The rioters were incensed over an issue arguably as old as India itself: the eating of beef, which the country’s majority Hindus have considered sacrilegious […] Read more

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By Jo Winterbottom, Rajendra Jadhav December 5, 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutes Ajit Govind Sable s family has owned their farm in India s western Maharashtra state for 10 generations, which even for a region that has been farming for more than 10,000 years is long enough to witness plenty of changes. Two generations back, they started cultivating sugar cane here in Shivthar, a village in Maharashtra […] Read more

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India

By Jo Winterbottom, Rajendra Jadhav December 5, 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutes Ajit Govind Sable s family has owned their farm in India s western Maharashtra state for 10 generations, which even for a region that has been farming for more than 10,000 years is long enough to witness plenty of changes. Two generations back, they started cultivating sugar cane here in Shivthar, a village in Maharashtra […] Read more

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Dominican Republic restricts pig shipments after ASF confirmed

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Trump budget plan cuts USDA food, rural water funding

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In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

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