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MARLIN CLARK

Marlin Clark

Mixed USDA news lowers grain market

March 16, 2010

USDA’s March crop production report says we have the highest ending stocks of 12 years. That cannot be a good thing, comments grain merchandiser Marlin Clark.

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U.S. and China agree on reopening Chinese pork market to U.S.

March 19, 2010

WASHINGTON — The United States and China have reached an agreement to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. pork and pork products.
Pork trade will resume immediately once both sides finalize the export documentation.

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Twenty percent of U.S. pork production was exported in 2009, and prior to H1N1 trade constraints, U.S. pork and pork variety […]

32 Ohio counties given disaster designation; Pa., W.Va. and Ky. counties also named

March 12, 2010

COLUMBUS — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack has designated 10 counties in Ohio as primary agricultural natural disaster areas, due to multiple disasters including excessive rain, flooding, flash flooding, high winds, hail, freeze, and frost that occurred April 1, 2009 through July 1, 2009.
Twenty-two counties were designated as contiguous counties. In addition two counties […]

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