Bob Stallman
Bob Stallman
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Farmers are feeling the pain of rising input costs, including energy prices, and fertilizer prices that have tripled in just the last few years. They are clearly looking for relief from costs pressures, which they cannot pass along to their customers.
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The biggest driver of course are ever-increasing high oil prices.
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It's a sad day when we're getting excited about an end-date in brackets.
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Most of that increase they note is due to high world oil prices. The same study reflects that ethanol affects prices by just a few pennies.
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Action taken by Japan today to halt U.S. beef imports is an unfortunate temporary setback to U.S. cattle producers, particularly in light of recent success to re-open the market. The vertebral column found in the shipments does not pose a health risk since the animal was less than 30 months of age.
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We are fighting tooth and nail to defeat backtracking by the EU on the framework agreement on market access, not to mention the developing countries -- a lot of them are viewing this negotiation as: 'We get to have everything given to us and we don't have to do anything in return.'