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        <title>Tom Vilsack</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wildfire risk runs high, but budget cuts mean fewer firefighters]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-13 20:07:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &mdash; The drought that caused record wildfires in California and other Western states last year is expected to persist through the summer, but fewer firefighters will battle this year's blazes in other regions because of federal budget cuts,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Proposed New Mexico horse slaughterhouse likely to get permit soon]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-03 12:43:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The battle over the opening of the nation&rsquo;s first domestic horse slaughterhouse since a government ban six years ago has ramped up as a company in Roswell, N.M., moves closer to reinstituting the practice. 

Activists throughout the West say they...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Meat shortage could be triggered by sequestration, White House warns]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-15 11:04:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Now may be time to hoard the bacon and load up on steaks. 

The White House put out a warning that sequestration -- or the steep, automatic spending cuts set to take effect in March -- may result in furloughing every meat and poultry inspector for two...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New meat labels go into effect, telling consumers where animals were born, raised, slaughtered]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-23 14:12:31</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE (AP) &#8212; Shoppers in the U.S. will soon have more information about where their meat comes from after new federal labeling rules went into effect Thursday.

The rules require labels on steaks, ribs and other cuts of meat to say where the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[USDA funds studies of weather and climatic variability impact on cattle]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-24 01:05:14</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[MADISON, Wis. - On May 7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded $19.5 million to support research, education and Extension activities associated with climate solutions in agriculture aimed at the impacts of climate variability and change on...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[First Lady plants wheat in White House garden]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-17 01:05:31</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[First Lady Michelle Obama on April 4 planted wheat by hand in the White House kitchen garden and then watered it. 

Crouching by signs reading "club wheat" and "bread wheat," the first lady scratched rows in the dirt so she and the children could put...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Agriculture census deadline approaching]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 11:54:03</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With the window to respond to the 2012 Census of Agriculture officially closing on May 31, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reminding Wilson County farmers and producers not to miss this opportunity to be counted and help determine the future of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Feds warn of 'tough' fire season, fewer firefighters]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 13:34:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the heels of the third-worst fire season on record, federal officials announced Monday they'll have fewer firefighting resources this summer, despite forecasts for another severe year in many parts of the West. 

North Central Washington, however,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Federal fire agencies face budget cuts]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 04:44:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With a "difficult" fire season looming, across-the-board budget cuts are now hitting federal firefighting agencies. The result: There will be hundreds fewer firefighters deployed to battle wildfires across the nation this year. 

"We're going to be...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Mexico horse slaughter plant to open soon]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-10 01:05:31</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The southern New Mexico plant that has been fighting for more than a year for permission to slaughter horses will open soon, unless Congress reinstates a ban on the practice, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. 

In a...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Agricultural Census deadline drawing near]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-10 07:34:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With the window to respond to the 2012 Census of Agriculture officially closing on May 31, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is urging Richmond County farmers and producers not to miss this opportunity to be counted and help determine the future...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The business of hunger]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/ct-edit-foodaid-20130509,0,4090550.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[America sends about $1.4 billion a year in emergency food aid to needy people around the world through the Food for Peace Program. By law, practically all that aid is produced in the U.S. and shipped by U.S. companies to far-flung places, where it is...]]></description>
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