- Ag News -

• Labor Department withdraws proposed rule on child farm labor
  The DOL
  The U.S. Department of Labor has withdrawn a proposed rule dealing with children who work in agricultural vocations.

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  Friday, Apr 27, 2012
• Criticism heavy during farm bill markup
  Southern senators all vote nay
  There is no argument that the farm bill passed out of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday was bipartisan. It was not, however, regionally inclusive as all four senators on the committee from the South – Arkansas’ John Boozman, Georgia’s Saxby Chambliss, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell and Mississippi’s Thad Cochran -- voted nay.

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  Friday, Apr 27, 2012
• Louisiana trying to safeguard $766,000 weevil fund Louisiana state legislators are considering several bills to insure that $766,000 in boll weevil eradication funds are not included in a fund sweep that Gov. Bobby Jindal is proposing to help balance the state budget.
  

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  Thursday, Apr 19, 2012
• India clears raw cotton for export India has cleared the way for exports of raw cotton, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.

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  Thursday, Apr 19, 2012