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FILE DATE: August 25, 2004

TOP STORIES

• A "smoking gun": USDA's claims of young cows' absence from mad-cow rolls discredited by resurfaced report

• Sen. Daschle proposes Small Farm Administration for USDA

• After pledging to end GM wheat trials, Monsanto hangs on with semantics

• Government Accounting Office finds that 30% of current farm subsidy recipients are ineligible

• EU commits 18 billion Euros to study consumer attitudes about organic farming, support technological development for organic producers

• In California, a county at the heart of the fight over biotech crops

• New corn survey finds farmers planted far fewer biotech acres than they planned

• Japan to use mobile-phone technology to allow consumers to track produce's history

• USDA unveils plan to boost diversity of agency's beneficiaries

REPORTS

• International committee of agricultural scientists issue "Blue Paper" calling for water conservation in agriculture (download PDF report)

MORE NEWS

• Merits of big business' entry into organics debated

• In a gesture of confidence about mad cow disease, USDA to resume sales of livestock insurance

• North Carolina hog-raisers try pasture-fed pigs

• How non-enforcement of pasture rules opens the door to industrial organic dairies

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