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April 28, 2008

Farm bill has boost in nutrition funds (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

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Farm bill has boost in nutrition funds (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
WASHINGTON - Congressional negotiators reached a tentative agreement yesterday on a multibillion-dollar farm bill that includes a hefty increase for nutrition programs at a time of rising food prices.

Popular business directory searches (The Enid News & Eagle)
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Farm bill boosts nutrition and cuts ethanol credit (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The new U.S. farm law would reduce the tax credit for corn-based ethanol while giving nutrition programs such as food stamps a $10.4 billion increase, House and Senate negotiators said on Friday.

Few reforms find a home in farm bill (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Washington - When lawmakers began debating a new farm bill that would set the nation’s agriculture policies for the next five years, a motley collection of conservation, taxpayer and nutrition groups spotted an opportunity for making major reforms to the cu…

Key lawmakers agree on nutrition aid boost (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Negotiators writing the new U.S. farm law agreed to a $10 billion increase for nutrition programs including food stamps, up $500 million from the earlier target, said the Senate and House Agriculture Committee chairmen on Thursday.

Negotiations On Farm Bill Add Billions For Nutrition (Washington Post)
House and Senate negotiators reached tentative agreement yesterday on a new $290 billion, multiyear farm bill that would add about $10.4 billion for nutrition programs while continuing to channel billions of dollars to farmers, even if prices stay at current record levels.

LOTTERY RESULTS: New York Lottery Take 5 drawing (Niagara Gazette)
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Nutrition IQ (The Sacramento Bee)
Most of us know that eating fruit is a good boost for your health, but does that mean you should just plop an apple into your lunch sack every day and call it nutrition accomplished?

Chia seeds, packed with nutrition, have become a health-food fad (The Sacramento Bee)
As a gag gift, the Chia Pet remains a popular choice for the kitsch-inclined. Slather on some seeds, add water and voil , a ceramic Homer Simpson sprouts fluffy green "hair." Chia seeds, plucked from a Central American plant called Salvia hispanica, contain omega-3 fatty acids, more dietary fiber than flaxseed, more antioxidants than blueberries and are a good source of calcium, according …

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