Most area farmers don't get much of anything from the federal government, because they grow crops Washington considers specialty items, such as tomatoes, walnuts and winegrapes. Congress has instead favored staple crops such as corn, wheat and rice for decades and has heavily subsidized them to promote production. Most is being grown to feed cattle and other livestock, and most recipients of federal subsidies are traditional farmers such as the Klein family, which farms Rindge Tract...

Inflation, which dropped to 4.8 per cent for the week ended June 2 due to easing of prices of some essential commodities, is expected to react positively to pulses import. At Delhi, prices of wheat, atta, tur, dal, sugar and groundnut remained steady over the last one week while those of rice, milk and potato remained steady during the last one month. Prices of tea, mustard oil, chana, onion and salt however showed a rise during the week ending June 11 in the national capital. The textile...

Lower-cost biomass ethanol for example, from rice straw (a byproduct of harvesting rice) or switch grass would make far more economic sense, but large volumes of ethanol from biomass will not be commercially viable for many years. Although corn is a renewable resource, it has a far lower yield relative to the energy used to produce it than either biodiesel or ethanol from other plants. Brazil and other major sugar cane-producing nations enjoy significant advantages over the US in producing...

Jeffrey was adamant about the need for a method that exposes such States, thereby encouraging them to comply with the obligations of the treaty which requires each State to apply the requisite Tariffs on third country imports. The Secretariat s report revealed that imports of 4,031 tonnes of cargo parboiled rice from the United States of America did not attract the 25 percent import duty from St Vincent and the Grenadines while there was no request for a suspension of the CET for 2006,...

A recent US law eased import restrictions on Haitian-made goods and is expected to create in the short term as many as 100,000 new jobs in Haiti, to offset high unemployment among its 8.5 million population -- the Caribbean's largest. To set the economy on track, a Haitian economist who asked not to be identified recommended "seeking strategic partnerships that can support the economic efforts of the country's public and private sectors. US-Caricom summit seeks new partnerships - Yahoo!...

Across town, students at the West Tisbury School eat lunches outsourced to a nationwide food service company, which cooks the meals at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School and trucks it to West Tisbury in the morning, where it is later reheated by school custodians. Across town, students at the West Tisbury School eat lunches outsourced to a nationwide food service company, which cooks the meals at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School and trucks it to West Tisbury in the...