FAS Mission Statement
To create economic opportunity for American agriculture by
expanding global markets.
President Obama Announces Under Secretaries For Agriculture Department
President Barack Obama has nominated
James W. (Jim) Miller to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and
Foreign Agricultural Services. (03/13/09)
Latest U.S. Agricultural Trade Data
(03/13/09)
USTR Announces Delay Of Trade Action In
Beef Hormones Dispute
(03/12/09;.pdf)
Russia/Ukraine Fill Global Wheat Demand
as Traditional Exporters Rebuild Stocks
(03/11/09;.pdf)
Cotton:
Despite Higher World Demand, U.S.
Exports to Decline in 2009/10
(03/11/09;.pdf)
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U.S. Soybean Exports Likely To Increase
(USDA Radio
News; 03/12/09
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wma,
real,
mp3)
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Record
Rapeseed Crush Contributes to
Decline in EU
Soybean Demand
(03/11/09;.pdf)
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Extended Mid-February Surface Dryness
Limits Argentine Soybean Production
(03/11/09;.pdf)
More
information on:
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Food
for Progress Success Story:
Women Entrepreneurs in Senegal Receive
Award for Their Efforts To Promote
Development and Reduce Poverty
(March 2009)
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AUDIO:
Actuality: Josephine Trenchard,
Counterpart International’s Africa
Regional Coordinator and Senegal Country
Representative, talking about how her
organization used the Food for Progress
grant to train the Senegalese women
entrepreneurs so they could market their
agricultural products,
mp3.
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Video:
Once in a Lifetime -- USDA Agricultural
Advisors in Iraq (02/13/09)
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Transcript
(.pdf)
