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		<title>One of agriculture’s “Greatest Generation” is gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Texas Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gene Hall Slowly at first, now much more quickly, the Greatest Generation of Americans is passing from the scene. Children in the want of the Great Depression, tempered in the fires of a world war, they had the smarts to go to the moon and the guts to stop the march of tyranny dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farming is a little like skydiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nsmith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crop insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nathan Smith, Field Editor Last week I saw miles and miles of Texas. I traveled to West Texas to visit with cotton farmers about the crop that’s going in the ground as we speak. They are pouring seed into planter boxes and rolling across the freshly prepared ground. They plant with an optimism that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making up numbers–the stats of a sport called ‘Attack the Farmer’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Hall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antibiotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kansas State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[livestock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Union of Concerned Scientists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to antibiotic use in livestock, activists like to fudge the numbers.]]></description>
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		<title>Domino’s Pizza ‘just says no’ to Humane Society of the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Barnett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domino’s Pizza refuses to play follow-the-leader in fast food follies, rejecting HSUS proposal on gestation stalls.]]></description>
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		<title>‘Vegan is Love,’ unless you eat meat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 16:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new kids’ book, ‘Vegan is Love,’ spews a lot of hatred toward meat eaters.]]></description>
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		<title>A grassroots win for the good guys</title>
		<link>http://txagtalks.texasfarmbureau.org/a-grassroots-win-for-the-good-guys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nsmith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nathan Smith, Field Editor It’s a case study in grassroots power. A half-cocked rule aimed at restricting young people’s activity on the farm was shot down last week when the Labor Department (DOL) withdrew the proposal. It’s nothing new to hear of an agency changing their mind, but this time the DOL had help. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are the ‘Mad Cow’ wars winding down?</title>
		<link>http://txagtalks.texasfarmbureau.org/are-the-mad-cow-wars-winding-down/</link>
		<comments>http://txagtalks.texasfarmbureau.org/are-the-mad-cow-wars-winding-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BSE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest “mad cow” incident did not become a media sensation because the system worked as it is supposed to, and that’s good news for consumers.]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day is 365 days a year for farmers and ranchers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Barnett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Texas Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth Day is 365 days a year for farmers and ranchers.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, USDA!</title>
		<link>http://txagtalks.texasfarmbureau.org/happy-birthday-usda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Department of Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USDA Sesquicentennial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), created by Abraham Lincoln, will celebrate its 150th birthday on May 15.

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		<title>Hyper sensitive about food</title>
		<link>http://txagtalks.texasfarmbureau.org/hyper-sensitive-about-food/</link>
		<comments>http://txagtalks.texasfarmbureau.org/hyper-sensitive-about-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Barnett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food activists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pink slime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ranchers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to food, the power of hype trumps science every time.]]></description>
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