Increases TA for specialty crops program to help with sanitary/phytosanitary and technical barriers that keep fruits/veggies out of certain markets. Title I -Commodities - Rebalance of loan rates and target prices on wheat, barley, oats, oilseeds, small chickpeas and graded wool. The block grants provided to states are to support projects in research, marketing, education, pest and disease management, production and food safety. Requires USDA to establish a method to allow producers to...

The SBP statistics shows that overall the country earned $ 4.125 billion against the payments of $ 8.250 billion in the account of services trade, including transportation, travel, royalties, insurance, financial during last fiscal year, depicting a 50 percent or $ 4.125 billion deficit. The SBP statistics shows that overall the country earned $ 4.125 billion against the payments of $ 8.250 billion in the account of services trade, including transportation, travel, royalties, insurance,...

Sen Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University By Subroto Roy Dear Professor Sen, Everyone will be delighted that someone of your worldwide stature has joined the debate on Singur and Nandigram; The Telegraph deserves congratulations for having made it possible on July 23. Sen Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University By Subroto Roy Dear Professor Sen, Everyone will be delighted that someone of your worldwide stature has joined the debate on Singur and Nandigram; The Telegraph deserves...

July 31, 2007 - 10:16am By JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Individuals took a shopping break in June, boosting their spending at the slowest pace in nine months as high gasoline prices and fallout from the housing slump made people think twice about buying. July 31, 2007 - 10:16am By JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Individuals took a shopping break in June, boosting their spending at the slowest pace in nine months as high gasoline prices and...

Biofuel boom echoes in rural areas Skip ads and navigation. Stands to reason -- those are the places where the feedstock for biodiesel and ethanol plants is grown (or, in the case of port cities such as Aberdeen, where it's imported) But you might want to care what's happening in Lincoln County, and hundreds of places like it around the country, especially if you have a motor vehicle that you would like to function as more than a large and expensive lawn ornament. Between government...