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New web resource maps USDA support for local and regional food projects, highlights business opportunities for farmers, ranchers and growers.

Cattle group says the legislation will prevent the government from picking minnow protection over agricultural production.

Effective July 1, herds larger than the trigger levels will be required to have 180 days of manure storage, up from the current 120-day limit.

Proposed policy would impose an entirely new regulatory burden on dairy processors to enforce a new program to periodically limit milk production, she says.

Processors and traders moved 3.24 billion lbs. of total milk solids into export channels last year, 7% more than 2010, and 49% more than 2009.

2009 underscored the fact that a minimum Current Ratio is not sufficient for most businesses to continue to pay current obligations,