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Cavendish Farms to reduce production

NEW ANNAN, P.E.I. — Cavendish Farms, P.E.I’s largest private-sector employer, will stop production for two weeks because of the faltering U.S. economy.
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USDA says it wants to resolve Indian farmer claim

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration intends to seek resolution to a lawsuit filed by American Indian farmers who alleged discrimination in the granting of federal agricultural loans over three decades.
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FSA urges farmers, ranchers to vote in county committee elections

WASHINGTON — Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Jonathan Coppess said today that the 2009 FSA county committee elections will begin tomorrow, Nov. 6, with USDA mailing ballots to eligible voters. The deadline to return the ballots to local FSA offices is Dec. 7, 2009.
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Cavendish Farms to reduce production

NEW ANNAN, P.E.I. — Cavendish Farms, P.E.I’s largest private-sector employer, will stop production for two weeks because of the faltering U.S. economy.
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Salmonella victims upset no prosecutions yet

ATLANTA — At the height of the nationwide salmonella outbreak nearly a year ago, FBI agents raided two peanut plants and carried away boxes of evidence. FDA inspectors found roaches, mold and a leaky roof. Then, Congress revealed e-mails from the peanut company’s top executive that seemed to suggest the pursuit of profits over ensuring public safety.
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Workers at USDA lab in Wyoming have option to move

LARAMIE, Wyo. — Nineteen employees at a federal animal disease lab in Wyoming have been given the option to move with the facility to Kansas.
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New officers picked for SD Beef Industry Council

PIERRE, S.D. — After serving two terms as vice president, Merrill Karlen of Oacoma has been selected president of the South Dakota Beef Industry Council.
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Rubashkin testifies in trial, denies charges

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The former manager of an Iowa kosher meatpacking plant testified Thursday that he never intentionally violated federal laws, but he admitted making some mistakes.
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Exec to plead guilty in tomato price-fixing case

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A former executive for a California-based tomato processor agreed to plead guilty to participating in a conspiracy to drive up food prices nationwide, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Agent: Informant tried to infiltrate meatpacker

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A federal special agent testified Wednesday that an informant who tried to infiltrate the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meatpacking plant in eastern Iowa was twice rejected for employment there because of fake work papers.
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Nebraska corn farmers warned of ear rots, grain molds

LINCOLN, Neb. — The cool, wet conditions not only are delaying Nebraska’s corn harvest, ear rots and grain molds could add their plaguing presence to some fields.
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