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LONDON, Ohio - On his swing through Ohio Sept. 20, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns awarded an electric utility loan of nearly $240 million to Buckeye Power Cooperative.

More than most months, September delivers farmers key numbers - yield per acre, weaning weight, price per pound or bushel - they will live with for the coming months.

Killed the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. Largely gutted the U.S. Department of Agriculture's mandate to "promote fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit of consumers and American agriculture.

Baseball has its winter hot-stove league when teams and players wheel and deal in hopes of improving their World Series chances.

SALEM, Ohio - The morning after Pennsylvania finalized legislation to work out differences between farmers and their communities, five people called the department of agriculture to protest local ordinances, according to Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff.

JACKSON CENTER, Pa. - Driving across the country road just east of Jackson Center, Pa., you'll see pigs wallowing in mud pits or litters of piglets trailing their mothers across a pasture before disappearing into a patch of tall grass.

If you think schoolchildren dread summer school, consider the eight-week summer session agriculture's friends in Congress face.

It happened again the other week at a local public forum on agriculture. The panel of speakers included me, two farmers and a state Farm Bureau economist.

You don't own any cattle, so the court-clouded Canadian beef import rule doesn't affect you, right? Likewise, you don't make fructose, raise sugar beets or grow cotton so all that mumbo-jumbo about NAFTA, CAFTA, TRIPS and the WTO is better left to those smart trade-talkers in Washington, Brussels and Geneva.

WASHINGTON - When you talk agriculture in Washington these days, you talk exports. Free