GENEVA - May 9/05 - SNS -- Food aid needs to be recognized as an important element of in international trade and should be supported as countries try to reform tariff and non-tariff barriers facing the movement of agricultural products on world markets, says the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), James Morris. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - May 9/05 - SNS -- Coffee production in Ecuador is expected to increase from 733,000 60-kilogram bags last year to a forecast 750,000 bags in 2005-06, according to a recent report from the U.S. agricultural attache for the country. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - May 9/05 - SNS -- Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food says alfalfa dehydration plants can cut back on their use of ethoxyquin by as much as 30% and still maintain acceptable levels of Vitamin A in pellets. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - May 10/05 - SNS -- the food situation is worsening in parts of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and northern Senegal as a result of last year's droughts and locust infestations, says the FAO. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - May 10/05 - SNS -- A bill before the U.S. congress seeking to force commercial truckers to impose fuel surcharges on shippers for movements of all commodities and other goods is opposed by the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - May 12/05 - SNS -- All hay stored on farms in the United States as of May 1, 2005 totaled 27.7 million tons, up 7% from the previous year, says the USDA in its latest crop production estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - May 12/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending May 4 declined, offsetting the previous week's gains, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/TransportationServices Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - May 19/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending May 11 declined, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - May 20/05 - IRIN -- A total of 5,000 metric tons (MT) of food aid is required to meet the critical needs of an estimated 47,000 drought-affected people in Djibouti for the next six months, a famine early warning agency has said. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - May 20/05 - SNS -- The amount of freight handled by Canadian railways jumped in March as strong demand for Canadian raw commodities in Asian markets lifted car loading during the month to their highest level in five years. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - May 20/05 - SNS -- Canadian Foodgrains Bank is readying to load a ship with 10,000 metric tons (MT) of wheat to North Korea next week and will follow up with a 1,320 MT soybean shipment in June. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - May 25/05 - SNS -- Conserving water is not as simple as taking shorter showers, say Australian researchers, who found vast quantities of water are used to manufacture fruit juices and dairy products. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - May 26/05 - SNS -- The number of hungry people in the world stand a good chance of increasing is climate change reduces land available for farming in developing countries. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - May 26/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending May 18 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - May 26/05 - MFB -- This week the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) urged Congress to back tax incentives that support biodiesel and wind energy, two renewable energies produced and harvested by the nation's farmers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - May 27/05 - SNS -- There is not enough food available to cover the next two months needs of the 3.8 million North Koreans at most risk because of a slump in donations for the FAO's emergency operation, the United Nations agency warned today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRUSSELS - May 27/05 - SNS -- Sanitary and phytosanitary rules should not be used to impede trade, argued EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson at a conference on those rules. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TORONTO - May 30/05 - SNS -- Pesticide residue levels in Canadian foods have been declining in recent years, according to an analysis of Agriculture Canada by the industry association, Croplife Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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