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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
The nation’s largest outdoor agricultural expo is set to be held next week in Iowa.
The 2008 Farm Progress Show returns to Iowa this year, in an all-new location near Boone. The event runs from Aug. 26-28, with more than 500 exhibitors showing farm equipment and technology.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer is expected to visit the show on Thursday, Aug. 28.
The new facility, located near the intersection of highways 30 and 17, will be the biennial location of the show for the next 20 years. The show will rotate each year between the Iowa location and a location at Decatur, Ill.
A series of seminars will be held to share the latest information on marketing and farm management, and there will be a center dedicated to conservation information where specialists will be on hand to answer questions. The conservation center will provide information about government programs, including the Conservation Security Program, Conservation Reserve Program, Environmental Quality Incentives Program, the Shelterbelt Program, the Forest Land Enhancement Program and the Wetland Reserve Program.
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