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				<title>No. 1 Milk Company Says &quot;No&quot; to Clones</title>
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				<description>Milk from cloned cows is not welcome at the nation's biggest milk company. Although the government has approved meat and milk from cloned animals while it conducts further studies, Dean Foods Co. of Dallas said Thursday that its customers and consumers</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-02-24 12:10:47</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022300645.html?nav=rss_technology</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>USDA Outlines a Plan To Cut Farm Subsidies</title>
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				<description>The Bush administration yesterday proposed ending farm subsidies for an estimated 80,000 wealthy individuals as part of a broad plan that would close loopholes and cut traditional farm programs by $4.5 billion over the next 10 years.</description>
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				<pubDate>2007-02-02 08:43:42</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013100671.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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				<title>Deceased Farmers Got USDA Payments</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/deceased_farmers_got_usda_paymen/</link>
				<description>The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-07-23 04:24:37</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/22/AR2007072201128.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>A Slow Demise in the Delta</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/a_slow_demise_in_the_delta/</link>
				<description>From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers' incomes and invigorate local economies in this poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta.

Most residents are black, but less than 5 p</description>
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				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-06-20 08:14:03</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061902193.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Cold ravages crops; farmers brace for more</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/cold_ravages_crops_farmers_brace/</link>
				<description>Heavy crop losses have been reported throughout the Southeast after last weekend's frigid temperatures, and farmers are bracing for another expected cold snap next week.

In South Carolina, at least 90 percent of the peach crop was destroyed and officia</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-04-12 09:26:50</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/04/12/frozen.crops.ap/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Corn prices up and away</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/us/corn_prices_up_and_away/</link>
				<description>Higher corn prices should be good news for many farmers but bad for consumers, right?

It's not quite that simple.

The price of corn, which had languished at about $2 a bushel for nearly a decade, started rising about eight months ago, hitting as hig</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-04-04 22:16:07</pubDate>
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					<name>Denver Post</name>
					<link>http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5585002</link>
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								<credibility>88</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Colo. may put inmates to work on farms</title>
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				<description>Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.

Somebody has to pick the crops. Prutch has 15 acres of rotting peppers to show what happens if s</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-03-08 08:21:33</pubDate>
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					<name>Yahoo News</name>
					<link>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_re_us/prisoner_farmers</link>
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								<credibility>93</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [3]</rating>
													<credibility>80</credibility>
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				<title>North Dakota Issues Nation's First Hemp Permits</title>
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				<description>North Dakota issued the nation's first licenses to grow industrial hemp Tuesday to two farmers who still must meet federal requirements before they can plant the crop.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>us</category>
				<pubDate>2007-02-07 13:01:08</pubDate>
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					<name>FOX News</name>
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								<credibility>82</credibility>
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					<rating>Amazing [4]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>mrmdc</username>
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