WASHINGTON - Sep 2/05 - MFB -- While the extent of the destruction resulting from Hurricane Katrina will likely take weeks or longer to assess, conservative estimates predict a $1 billion price tag on the damage done directly to crops and livestock, according to Terry Francl, American Farm Bureau Federation senior economist, with an additional $1 billion in indirect costs expected as a result of a growing waterway shipping crisis and soaring fuel prices. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 11/05 - SNS -- Japan's new food pyramid is based on that developed by the USDA, buts its recommendations are based on Japanese prepared dishes instead of raw ingredients and the promotion of fish over red meat. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA Crop Production Summary (Metric Measure) -- Sep 2005 . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA Crop Production Summary (Domestic Measure) -- Sep 2005 . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 15/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending September 7 fell, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 16/05 - SNS -- The quantity of hops on hand in the United States as of September 1 is down from year earlier levels. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI , 19 September (IRIN) - More than 900,000 people in Somalia will need immediate humanitarian assistance between September this year and January 2006, despite improvements in food security in some of the areas previously affected by drought, theFood Security Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSAU) said. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 20/05 - SNS -- A USDA administrative law judge denied petitions to strike down research and promotion programs for watermelons and honey. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Sep 21/05 - IRIN -- The continuously rising prices of both food and essential nonfood items are threatening the food security and livelihood of poor urban households in Djibouti, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) reported inits monthly food security update for the tiny Horn of Africa country. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Sep 21/.05 - SNS -- A 56% funding shortfall is making it harder for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to maintain its emergency operations in Iraq. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 22/05 - SNS -- Easing ocean freight rates resulted in a decrease in the cost of moving wheat from North Dakota and Kansas to Japan in the second quarter of the current calendar year, according to the USDA's Transportation and MarketingPrograms/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 22/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending September 14 increased, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CANBERRA - Sep 23/05 - SNS -- An economics professor from the United States will argue that genetically modified grains and oilseeds offer the only solution to feeding the world and that all opponents would rather see people die of starvation than violate their ideological preconceptions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LANSING - Sep 23/05 - MFB -- A coalition of 21 agriculture groups, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, this week sent a letter to President Bush requesting a temporary waiver of the "Jones Act," a section of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. . . . Continue or visitors click here

KABUL - Sep 28/05 - IRIN -- The Afghan government has rejected a call to legalize poppy cultivation in the country, following a recent report advocating for its legitimate production. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Sep 28/05 - SNS -- Around 12 million people in six southern African countries need immediate emergency food following a poor cereal harvest earlier this year, according to a report issued today by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). . . . Continue or visitors click here

BUJUMBURA - Sep 29/05 - IRIN -- UN agencies in Burundi said on Wednesday that even though the country had now overcome many of its political problems, international donors were not providing enough funds to meet people's basic humanitarian needs. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 29/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending September 21 fell, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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