Another example of political folly masquerading as public health is the role of the Agriculture Department.
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At the Agriculture Department, there are jobs protecting the nation's food supply and fighting hunger.
Mr. Davidson, from the West Virginia agriculture department, says the housewife in the rival state is exaggerating.
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Oct. 8: For a second month running, the Agriculture Department cut its forecast for US corn production.
Weight Watchers' is the diet most frequently recommended by doctors and is endorsed by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
What is arguably the most important U.S. agriculture department report of the year is due out Friday morning.
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That change is aimed at reducing the amount of saturated fat consumed by children, according to the Agriculture Department.
In June the agriculture department noted that ethanol plants have become more efficient.
But American banking and Agriculture Department officials say the Soviets quickly ran into difficulties in finding banks willing to lend.
Such violations didn't trouble Ohio's agriculture department--Hershey and Bethel didn't have a history of "substantial noncompliance"--and it issued the permits.
You want me to listen to an entire speech given by the the rural development director for the Agriculture Department in Georgia?
The world consumed 17.6 billion pounds of coffee beans last year, up from 2.6 billion in 1982, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department.
On Oct. 8, when the Agriculture Department cut its forecast for the US corn crop, shares of Tyson, the chicken producer, dropped 6%.
That would be up nearly 50% from last year and the biggest jump of any major farm commodity, according to Agriculture Department forecasts.
Yet it's the Agriculture Department among all the agencies in government charged with voicing the national advice on what Americans should eat to stay healthy.
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Industries the Agriculture Department deals with like wheat, sugar, cattle, etc.
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It is his department that will get the blame if we get fined yet he cannot force the agriculture department to do what he says.
That drought shriveled crops across the American farm belt, leading to an expected rise in food prices in 2013, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Thousands of public-health experts, scientists, physicians, nurses and other health experts work for the federal government, but most of them don't work in the Agriculture Department.
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Agriculture Department spokeswoman Denise Feiber says the menacing creatures also carry a human parasite called rat lungworm, which is a form of meningitis and potentially deadly.
Agriculture Department and banking officials said they could not recall a previous instance in which a major guaranteed agricultural-export loan had been claimed entirely by foreign banks.
By 2003 another group of neighbors had filed suit and even the federal epa had gotten into the act, and the state agriculture department revoked Buckeye's operating permits.
The poultry processing giant is regulated by the Agriculture Department.
That was sharply lower than a U.S. Agriculture Department estimate earlier this month of a yield of 146 bpa and a Reuters poll this week of 130.8 bpa.
Fund and the U.S. Agriculture Department has also been alleged.
"Evidence shows that our systems and safeguards to prevent BSE are working, as are similar actions taken by countries around the world, " said John Clifford, the Agriculture Department's chief veterinarian.
The Agriculture Department does not receive the paperwork from banks until after the grain is actually shipped, and department officials said they did not know who had made the loans.
But Allan Jennings, the director of the Agriculture Department's Office of Pest Management Policy, insists this year's crop of apples and produce that have been sprayed with the chemicals are safe.
Soviet officials asked for the guarantee to be raised from 98 percent, which is the standard for countries with credit problems, to 100 percent, said an Agriculture Department official who insisted on anonymity.
Evidence of tightening global food supplies grew as the U.S. Agriculture Department cut its estimates for global harvests of key crops and raised some demand forecasts, adding to worries about rising food prices.
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