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What's New - October 2008

Iraqi crops benefit from USDA's irrigation assistance.
Expert Help Being Given To Strengthen Iraqi Agriculture
— PRT Furthers Strong Engagement with Iraqi Farmers (U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; 10/23/08)
— PRT Hosts Veterinary Program in Kirkuk (U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; 10/23/08)
— (USDA Radio News; 10/21/08 - real, mp3, wave)
— Iraqi Agriculture Officials Visit U.S. Farms (U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; 10/07/08)
— USDA Advisors Help Rebuild Iraqi Irrigation (USDA Video; 09/24/08)

Logo: 2009 USDA Outlook Forum USDA Announces 2009 Agricultural Outlook Forum Distinguished Plenary Speakers (10/29/08)
— Register to attend
— Details: February 26-27, 2009, Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, Virginia

Brazil’s Soybean Export Growth Limited by Expanding Domestic Use (10/10/08; .pdf)

Global Import Demand Shifts from Coarse Grains to Wheat (10/10/08; .pdf)

World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body has found in favor of the United States in its challenge against India’s additional and extra-additional duties on wine, spirits and other agricultural and manufactured products (10/31/08; .pdf)

Satisfaction Survey of FAS Stakeholders (October 2008)
— Executive Summary (.pdf)
— Full Report (.pdf)

NOTICE: The Production, Supply and Demand tables have been changed for the October Grains, Oilseeds and World Agricultural Production circulars as a result of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) corrections on U.S. crop estimates released on October 28.
— Revised Grains: World Market and Trade (.pdf)
— Revised Oilseeds: World Market and Trade(.pdf)
— PSD-Online

Transcript of Remarks by Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer at the 2008 Borlaug Dialogue and World Food Prize Presentation (10/17/08)

A National Biofuels Action Plan Is Here (USDA Radio News; 10/21/08 - real, mp3, wave)
— USDA Defends Its Biofuels Policy (USDA Radio News; 10/08/08 - real, mp3, wave)
— USDA and DOE Release National Biofuels Action Plan (10/07/08)
— FACT SHEET: National Biofuels Action Plan (10/07/08)
— Secretaries Schafer and Bodman Announce National Biofuels Action Plan (Transcript; View Video; 10/07/08)
— More about biofuels and U.S. agricultural trade

The Biotechnology Debate and Curbing World Hunger (USDA Radio News; 10/20/08 - real, mp3, wave)

WTO’s Appellate Body Vindicates Continued U.S. Imposition of Sanctions after the EU Claimed Compliance in the EU – Hormones Dispute (10/16/08; .pdf)

Latest U.S. Agricultural Trade Data (10/10/08)
— Fiscal 08 Exports Could End Up Surpassing the Forecasts (USDA Radio News; 10/14/08 - real, mp3, wave)

USDA Advisors Help Rebuild Iraqi Irrigation (USDA Video; 09/24/08)

USDA Announces $3.5 Billion in Credit Guarantees for Fiscal Year 2009 (09/30/08)

USDA Announces $234 Million to Promote U.S. Food and Agricultural Products Overseas (09/30/08)
— USDA Programs Promote Us Agricultural Goods Overseas (USDA Radio News; 10/03/08 - real, mp3, wave)

Featured Reports
10/24 Iraq: New Remote Sensing Processes Help Predict the Agricultural Outlook in Countries Where the Food Supply Is a Key Political Issue
10/17 Global Import Demand for Meat and Poultry Forecast Higher in 2009 (.pdf)
10/10 Global Import Demand Shifts from Coarse Grains to Wheat (.pdf)
10/10 Brazil: Summer-Corn Area Forecast to Decrease (.pdf)
10/10 Brazil’s Soybean Export Growth Limited by Expanding Domestic Use (.pdf)

World Production, Market and Trade Reports
10/17 Livestock and Poultry: World Markets & Trade
10/14 Dairy Monthly Import Circular
10/10 Sugar Monthly Import and Re-Export Data Report
10/10 Grains: World Markets and Trade
10/10 World Agricultural Production
10/10 Cotton: World Markets and Trade
10/10 Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
09/30 U.S. Planting Seed Trade

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Federal Register Notices

10/24/08 McGovern Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program and Food for Progress Program - Proposed Rule
09/16/08 The Dairy Import Licensing Program - Final Rule
09/03/08 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Emerging Markets
09/03/08 Assessment of Fees for Dairy Import Licenses for the 2009 Tariff-Rate Import Quota Year
08/29/08 Adjustment of Appendices to the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Regulation for the 2008 Tariff-Rate Quota Year
07/17/08 Edward R. Madigan United States Agricultural Export Excellence Board of Evaluators: Nomination
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Emerging Markets Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Market Access Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
07/16/08 Inviting Applications for the Quality Samples Program
05/07/08 Notice of a New System of Records: Dairy Accelerated Importer Retrieval and Information Exchange System (DAIRIES) to administer the Dairy Import Licensing Program
04/02/08 Notice of product coverage and trigger levels for safeguard measures provided for in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture
04/01/08 Notice of Request for New Information Collection on Genetic Resources for U.S. Food and Agriculture
01/24/08 Inviting Applications for the Emerging Markets Program
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