DEMISE OF DOHA ROUND OPENS DOOR FOR GENUINE
Agriculture Policy Cooperation and Development

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2006 – “With the Doha Round of trade negotiations declared dead by many, it is time to address real international cooperation on food and farm policy options,” said Larry Mitchell, Chief Executive of the American Corn Growers Association (ACGA).  MORE

China Wins NAFTA Super-Highway Battle

by Jerome R. Corsi

Human Events Online

Aug 09, 2006

Red China is investing heavily in developing deep-water ports in Mexico to bring an unprecedented volume of containers into the U.S. along the emerging NAFTA Super Highway. This move signals China’s emergence as the unexpected economic winner in the North American Union free market. MORE

Guest Opinion: Next president can forge trade pacts to protect U.S.

WASHINGTON - Strange as it sounds, the U.S. economy, the world economy and the global trading system were all strengthened in late July when the international trade talks known as the Doha Round collapsed. MORE

Nash: Mexico has become the ‘51st state’  By Austin Bishop / contributing writer  Published: June 28, 2006 01:12 am

DEKALB — A spokesman for the textile industry said earlier this week that Americans are spending themselves and the United States into oblivion.

Armed with the North American Free Trade Agreement and easy access to loans, Jock Nash said, the United States is doing to itself what no country could ever do — destroying itself from within. MORE

House Passes FY07 Ag Appropriations Bill's   Jim Wiesemeyer's INSIDE WASHINGTON, via AgWeb) The House on Tuesday cleared a $93.6 billion FY07 Agriculture appropriations bill, after defeating provisions that would have extended dairy and peanut program subsidies, and easily killing attempts to halt funding for an animal ID program and to reduce the sugar support program.  MORE

2006 to present more challenges to farmers, USDA says Mar 15, 2006 2:58 PM
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Net cash farm income is expected to decline by $18 billion or nearly 22 percent in 2006 because of higher crop stocks, lower crop prices and a modest decline in livestock and livestock product receipts compared with 2005.MORE

WTO, GMO and Total Spectrum Donminance

WTO rules put free-trade of agribusiness above national health concerns by F. William Engdahl  March 29, 2006
GlobalResearch.ca
In February, a private organization with unique powers over world industry, trade and agriculture, issued a Preliminary Draft Ruling on a three-year-old case. The case was brought by the Bush Administration in May 2003 against European Union rules hindering the spread of genetically-engineered plants and foods. The WTO ruling, which is to be final in December, will have more influence over life and death on this planet than most imagine. MORE

Saving Small Family Farms    Jan. 25, 2006 by Rep. Marcy Kaptur    We all know that small farmers are in crisis. What many Americans don’t realize is just how much worse things are getting. Because of trade policies like NAFTA, the United States will become a net importer of agricultural products in 2006. MORE

House AG Committee Members Say Farm Bill Should Not Be WTO-based'  KTIC 840 Rural Radio DENVER (March 5, 2006)  Five members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture held a roundtable discussion at the National Farmers Union Convention, agreeing that the 2007 Farm Bill should not be written based upon World Trade Organization negotiations. MORE

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