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			 <title><![CDATA[Antibiotics (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[Antibiotic resistance in human medicine is a growing health concern. Agriculture is scrutinized for production practices and critics advocate restrictions, despite the lack of conclusive scientific evidence to prove a relationship between livestock antibiotic use and human antibiotic resistance.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:09:20 EST</pubDate>
			 <link><![CDATA[http://ofbf.org/policy-and-politics/article/436/]]></link>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Conservation Reserve Program - Early Out (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[Conservation Reserve Program helped producers cope with Highly Erodible Land restrictions from the 1985 Farm Bill. Now other environmental criteria are part of enrollment. A penalty-free release of non-sensitive CRP acreage may allow more acreage for the growing demand of agricultural commodities.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:56:52 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Food Traceability (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[Full traceability of food from the farm gate to the retail level is a system U.S. retailers and consumers are increasingly interested in developing. Traceability helps minimize costs of food recalls, improves food safety perceptions and captures the value of retail products for farmers and ranchers.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:37:35 EST</pubDate>
			 <link><![CDATA[http://ofbf.org/policy-and-politics/article/434/]]></link>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Funding Infrastructure Projects (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[Many roads and bridges that transport children safely to school and deliver goods from farm to market or allow barges to move down river need repaired and modernized. The funding comes from local, state and federal governments, which will likely have greatly fewer financial resources in the future.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:21:21 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Futures Contract Regulation (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act brings drastic changes to financial markets. The new law will increase regulation of agricultural swaps and trade options. Will the proposed regulations negatively impact agribusiness firms? -- particularly farmer-owned cooperatives]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:58:50 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Rural Health Care (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[Nearly 50 million rural Americans do not have regular access to adequate health care. In order for Americas farmers to thrive in supplying food, fuel and fiber to the world, rural communities need access to health care, increased technology, and programs to sustain health care providers.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:37:49 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Tax Reform (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[Congressional hearings may lead to an overhaul of the federal tax code. Farm Bureau supports repealing the estate tax. Tax reform if handled responsibly can prevent crippling agricultural operations and harming rural communities and businesses that agriculture supports.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:42:35 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Incremental Beef Trade (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[Whether the United States should move away from its requirement that foreign countries follow sound science and international standards in trade and instead in some situations consider an incremental approach to opening foreign markets to U.S. beef exports.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Food Safety (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[The National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (NLGMA) would be administered by USDA with the intent to enhance food safety. Some state Farm Bureaus and other groups have indicated support for NLGMA. AFBF has expressed support for the process, but has not taken a position on the details.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:27:34 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Dairy Policy (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[Since most federal dairy programs closely resemble their post-Depression era counterparts, new options are being put forward.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:25:37 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Crop Insurance (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[The growing participation of producers in insurance programs as well as the improved product offerings suggests at least the potential for these programs to replace current farm income safety net provisions of the Farm Bill.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:24:07 EST</pubDate>
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			 <title><![CDATA[Commodity Warehouses (national policy)]]></title>
			 <description><![CDATA[There is concern that current bonding and insurance has not provided adequate coverage for commodity producers.]]></description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:22:33 EST</pubDate>
			 <link><![CDATA[http://ofbf.org/policy-and-politics/article/217/]]></link>
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