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June 20, 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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U.S. COTTON
Timely Rainfall Benefits SW Cotton
http://southwestfarmpress.com/cotton/timely-rainfall-benefits-sw-cotton
(Farm Press) Oklahoma's cotton crop, as well as those in Texas and Kansas, continues to grow well due to timely rains and moderate temperatures.
Cotton Price Spike Could Impale Merchants
http://www.agrimoney.com/news/cotton-price-spike-could-impale-merchants--4660.html
(Agrimoney) The cotton industry may have been placed on course for a 2008-style wave of collapses by the jump in futures prices of 30% in two weeks, on talk of demand to fill a huge US order, a leading analyst warned.
WASHINGTON UPDATE
Senators Begin Quickly Debating Farm Bill Amendments
http://www.dtnprogressivefarmer.com/dtnag/common/link.do?symbolicName=/free/news/template1&product=/ag/news/topstories&vendorReference=03c04f6a-bd64-4713-ac52-9066f87bb730&paneContentId=70109&paneParentId=70043
OMAHA (DTN) -- The U.S. Senate resoundingly rejected a push to put a $250,000 adjusted gross income means test on people to receive farm-program benefits in the farm bill.
EPA Won't Change Its Dust Standards…For Now
http://farmprogress.com/california-farmer-story-epa-wont-change-dust-standardsfor-8-60771
(DTN) Proposed updates to the Environmental Protection Agency's national air quality standards don't include any changes for coarse particles, including dust generated by farming practices and unpaved roads, according to a statement by the agency Friday.
TRADE
USTR Welcomes Mexico as New TPP Negotiating Partner
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/Association-news/ustr/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=112430
(fiber2fashion) President Obama announced this morning that the United States and the eight other countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement have extended an invitation to Mexico to join the TPP negotiations, pending successful conclusion of their domestic procedures.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
GM Crop Trouble as Pests Adapt
http://westernfarmpress.com/cotton/gm-crop-trouble-pests-adapt
(Farm Press) Pests are adapting to genetically modified crops in unexpected ways, researchers have discovered.
　
