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go directly to report, PDF _ RL33334 - Biotechnology in Animal Agriculture: Status and Current Issues
11-Feb-2009; Geoffrey S. Becker and Tadlock Cowan ; 24 p.
 Update: Previous Releases:
September 23, 2008
January 17, 2008
February 21, 2007
June 2, 2006
March 27, 2006

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Abstract: Animal agriculture is being transformed by rapid advances in biotechnology — a term that encompasses a variety of technologies, including genetic engineering (GE), genetic modification, transgenics, recombinant DNA techniques, and cloning, among others. Producers are interested in the application.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Agriculture, Science & Technology

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go directly to report, PDF _ RL34081 - Farm and Food Support Under USDA’s Section 32 Program
20-Feb-2009; Geoffrey S. Becker; 21 p.
 Update: Previous Releases:
May 29, 2008
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Abstract: “Section 32” is a permanent appropriation that since 1935 has earmarked the equivalent of 30% of annual customs receipts to support the farm sector through a variety of activities. Today, most of this annual appropriation is transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) account that funds.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Agriculture, Legislative
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go directly to report, PDF _ RS22653 - Animal Identification: Overview and Issues
19-Feb-2009; Geoffrey S. Becker; 10 p.
 Update: Previous Releases:
April 26, 2007
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Abstract: Livestock industry groups, animal health officials, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been working to establish a nationwide identification (ID) system capable of quickly tracking animals from birth to slaughter, in order to combat a serious animal disease and/or to satisfy foreign .... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Risk & Reform, Agriculture, Information
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go directly to report, PDF _ RL32809 - Agricultural Biotechnology: Background and Recent Issues
13-Feb-2009; Tadlock Cowen and Geoffrey S. Becker; 35 p.
 Update: Previous releases:
March 7, 2005

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Abstract: Since the first genetically engineered (GE) crops (also called GM [genetically modified] crops, or GMOs, genetically modified organisms) became commercially available in the mid-1990s, U.S. soybean, cotton, and corn farmers have rapidly adopted them. As adoption has spread, there have been policy de.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Agriculture, Science & Technology
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go directly to report, PDF _ RL34198 - U.S. Food and Agricultural Imports: Safeguards and Selected Issues
2-Feb-2009; Geoffrey S. Becker ; 27 p.
 Update: Previous Releases:
August 14, 2008
April 16, 2008
January 2, 2008
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Abstract: U.S. officials continue to assert that the U.S. food supply, including the portion provided through imports, is among the safest in the world. One challenge has been how to keep it safe in the face of rapidly rising imports, a result of globalization and consumer desire for a wider variety of foo.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Economics & Trade, Risk & Reform, Agriculture
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go directly to report, PDF _ R40160 - Agriculture, Nutrition, and Rural Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009
23-Feb-2009; Jim Monke, Joe Richardson, Megan Stubbs, Tadlock Cowen, Ralph M. Chite, Geoffrey S. Becker, Remy Jurenas; 28 p.
 Abstract: On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA, P.L. 111-5). The ARRA is a response to the depth of the economic recession facing the United States (and the rest of the world) at the beginning of 2009. It is billed as an econ.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Agriculture
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go directly to report, PDF _ R40236 - Estimates of Carbon Mitigation Potential from Agricultural and Forestry Activities
20-Feb-2009; Renee Johnson, Gorte, Yacobucci, Schnepf; 21 p.
 Abstract: In the United States, the agriculture and forestry sectors account for less than 10% of current estimated total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually. Combined, these sectors are estimated to emit nearly 600 million metric tons CO2 equivalent (MMT CO2-Eq.) each year, most of which is emitt.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Agriculture, Forests
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go directly to report, PDF _ RS22908 - Livestock Feed Costs: Concerns and Options
17-Sep-2008; Geoffrey S. Baker; 6 p.
 Update: Previous Editions:
September 17, 2008.... [expand]  [read report]
Abstract: Livestock producers in 2008 have seen sharply higher feed costs, fueled by competing use demands for corn and soybeans and by higher energy prices. Some analysts argue that current public policies, including financial incentives that divert corn from feed uses into ethanol production, exacerbated.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Agriculture, Economics & Trade, Government
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go directly to report, PDF _ RL34130 - Renewable Energy Policy in the 2008 Farm Bill
23-Jan-2009; Tom Capehart; 28 p.
 Update: Previous releases:
September 17, 2008
October 29, 2007
October 1, 2007
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Abstract: The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-246, the 2008 farm bill) extends and expands many of the renewable energy programs originally authorized in the 2002 farm bill. The bill also continues the emphasis on the research and development of advanced and cellulosic bioenergy author.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Agriculture, Energy
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go directly to report, PDF _ RL34126 - Rural Development Provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill
16-Jan-2009; Tadlock Cowan; 23 p.
 Update: Previous releases:
September 18, 2008
January 3, 2008
August 10, 2007
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Abstract: Congress has expressed its concern with rural communities most directly through periodic omnibus farm bill legislation, most recently in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-246). Congress uses periodic farm bills to address emerging rural issues as well as to reauthorize and/.... [expand]  [read report]
Topics: Agriculture, Government, Population
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