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The 2003 USA trade deficit with China topped $100 billion.

NATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH Monitoring System reported almost one in two USA dairy operation had disappeared since 1991, with roughly a 4-5% decrease per year. Herd size has increased 73 percent.

Canadian farmers find no foreign markets will buy the older cows because cows over 30 months age are old enough to develop “Mad Cow Disease.” Older cows that are sold bring 8-15 cents per pound.

THIS YEAR, eighty percent of the growth in USA imports has come from the rest of the world, not China. USA’s deficit with the European Union is nearly as big as our deficit with China.

THE BIG FIVE international grain companies, ADM, Cargill, Bunge, Dreyfuss and Toepfer moved 78 percent of Argentina’s wheat, 79 percent of the corn, 71 percent of soymeal, 95 percent of the soyoil and 99 percent of the sunflowers.

Wheat producers, millers, bakers and food manufacturers have committed $US900,000 this year to promote the nutritional benefits of grain-foods as a result of “carb-bashing” diets.