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January 26, 2012
Celebrating the Miracle of Agriculture
http://www.americasheartland.org
The Emmy-award-winning America's Heartland has been introducing non-farm viewers to the men and women who provide the food, fuel, and fiber we use and consume since 2005. The series is available in 20 of the top 25 television markets on more than 240 PBS stations covering 60 percent of the United States. Including its RFD-TV viewership, the series reaches more than 40 million viewers each season. The seventh season was underwritten by the United Soybean Board, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture and Farm Credit, with the latter announcing it also would underwrite the series' eighth season. The National Cotton Council is among six organizations that provide in-kind production support. Visit AmericasHeartland.org to view episodes and access educational resources and complementary video series offerings.
　
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WASHINGTON UPDATE
Agriculture Sector Unhappy With Trade Agency Merger Proposal
http://deltafarmpress.com/government/agriculture-sector-unhappy-trade-agency-merger-proposal
(Farm Press) In a bid to shrink government, the White House has proposed merging the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the Small Business Administration, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Trade and Development Agency, and several functions of the Commerce Department into a yet-to-be-named new agency.
House Ag Chairman Says Ag Groups Need to Come Together
http://www.dtnprogressivefarmer.com/dtnag/common/link.do?symbolicName=/free/news/template1&product=/ag/news/topstories&vendorReference=cdc37f49-a12b-4710-8d92-f41326abfc58&paneContentId=70109&paneParentId=70043
SALINA, Kan. (DTN) -- Despite election-year rhetoric in Congress, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas still sees an opportunity to finish a farm bill in 2012, saying he feels a strong urgency to accomplish that goal.
INTERNATIONAL COTTON PRODUCTION
Meeting to Assess Cotton Crop Output Today
http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=89422&Cat=3
(The International News) ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Despite the torrential rains and flash floods in the cotton producing belt in the country, per acre plant population and cotton ball size has increased as compared to the last year’s out-put.
Cotton Farming Up 200 Percent
http://www.bnltimes.com/index.php/daily-times/headlines/business/3998-cotton-farming-up-200-percent
(The Daily Times) MALAWI -- The country could register a more than 200 percent increase in cotton production this year that could earn the country up to US$300 million in foreign exchange if government estimates on this year cotton farming are anything to go by.
TEXTILES
'Textile Industry on Course of Total Disaster'
http://www.brecorder.com/cotton-a-textiles/single/625/185/1147071/
(Business Recorder) PAKISTAN -- Textile industry is on the course of total disaster as production and exports are falling month by month due to persistent gas closure and electricity load shedding in Punjab, said Arif Tauseef, Chairman of Pakistan Textile Exporters Association, while talking to newsmen here on Wednesday.
OF INTEREST
Owners of Largest Tractor in World Will Be At KFYR Agri International Trade Show
http://www.farmandranchguide.com/news/special_section/owners-of-largest-tractor-in-world-will-be-at-kfyr/article_43889bd6-482d-11e1-a6f7-001871e3ce6c.html
(Farm and Ranch Guide) Robert and Randy Williams, owners of the largest tractor in the world, the Big Bud 747 tractor, will be at the 35th annual KFYR Radio Agri International Trade Show at the Bismarck Civic Center Feb. 14-15. (Big Bud was originally owned by California cotton farmers, the Rossi brothers.)
　
