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Minn-Dak Grower Payments Won't Top Last Year's
December 13, 2004

Minn-Dak Shareholders Pocket Record Revenues In Past Year
December 8, 2004

Cuba Trade Laws Under Review - Payment System Change Could Jeopardize Trade, U.S. Ag Interests Say
December 6, 2004

Tension Surrounds U.S. - Cuba Trade - Bush's New Cabinet Appointees May Result In Tougher Policy
December 6, 2004

Thousands Of Beet Acres Abandoned - Farmers Work To Prepare Ground For Next Season
November 22, 2004

Zoellick Outlines Plans To Drop Dominican Republic From CAFTA
November 19, 2004

Zoellick Seen As Staying With Cabinet
November 12, 2004

USTR Rejects Dominican Republic HFCS Offer, As CAFTA Fight Looms
November 12, 2004

USTR Seeks CAFTA Passage By Mid-Year, Zoellick To Consult Congress
November 12, 2004

TRADE: Bush's Re-Election Signals Busy Trade Agenda, CAFTA Vote
November 4, 2004

Dorgan Leadership Role In Senate May Increase
November 4, 2004

GOP Majorities In Congress Will Help Bush Push Agenda
November 4, 2004

Peterson In Line For A Higher Ag Profile
November 4, 2004

Red River Sugar Growers To Work With Bush
November 4, 2004

Lawmakers: Bush Trade Record 'Scary'
November 1, 2004

Sweet or Sour - Vice President Asks Farmers To Back Bush Administration Trade Policies
November 1, 2004

Sugar PACs Financing Candidates
October 28, 2004

ELECTION 2004: No Sugar Substitute - Vice President Asks Farmers To Back Bush Administration Trade Policies
October 26, 2004

Cheney Addresses Sugar Fears
October 26, 2004

Vice President Says Bush Administration Sensitive To Sugar Issues
October 25, 2004

POLITICS: Peterson Says Cheney Also Voted Anti-Sugar
October 23, 2004

The Enemy I Know - Sugar Beet Farmers Say Trust Is The Issue When It Comes To Bush vs. Kerry
October 15, 2004

Area Sugar Farmers See Pledge As Victory For Industry
October 14, 2004

Sugar Business Sours As U.S. Goes Diet Crazy
October 3, 2004

CAMPAIGN MIDWEST: Trade Deal Sours Sugar Beet Farmers
September 26, 2004

Trade Official Courts Farmers - Ambassador Swings Through State Seeking Support For Efforts to Ease Imports, Exports
September 24, 2004

Bush Official: We’ Won’t Trade Away Sugar Industry
September 23, 2004

Sugar Talk Not So Sweet - USDA Official Takes Heat on Trade Policy on Campaign Stop
September 23, 2004

Sugar Beet Area Not Sweet on Pact - Trade Deal Flavors Outlook on Candidates
September 20, 2004

TRADE: Loud and Clear - Beet Industry Takes on CAFTA
September 17, 2004

Area Beet Farmers Say No To CAFTA
September 17, 2004

Blind Faith - Farmer Recouped Much of Tower Cost in One Cultivation
September 13, 2004

Other Views: Stay Off CAFTA Highway
September 11, 2004

Election Sours Beet Farmers
September 11, 2004

Sugar Growers Sour on Trade Pact, Bush
September 10, 2004

Monitor Sugar Beet Growers Hit Acreage Goal
September 10, 2004

Recent Rains to Help Sugar Beet Farmers During Pre-lift
September 9, 2004

Crystal Delays Beet Pre-pile - Slow Crop Progress Pushes Date To Sept. 13
September 1, 2004

Trade Agreement Threatens Minnesota Production Jobs
August 29, 2004

Adding Sugar To The Wound?
August 22, 2004

The Lesson In Crystal's Tax Appeal
August 18, 2004

AgStar Makes Offer For Farm Credit Services
August 18, 2004

Tension Builds As Co-op Lockout Drags On
August 16, 2004

Penn Speech Not a Hit With Sugar Growers - Ag Undersecretary Says Little About Sugar, Trade
August 16, 2004

Bush, Kerry Are Worlds Apart on Trade Issues - Senator Speaks Out For Workers, Environment. President's Aides Warn Against Protectionism
August 15, 2004

REGION: American Crystal Tax Protest Creates a Controversy - Growers Are on Both Sides as Owners and Tax Payers
August 15, 2004

The U.S. Trade Gap Widens to a New Record
August 13, 2004

Proof (and profit) Is In The Product For Cargill
August 11, 2004

Sugar Producers Press USDA: 2005 Allotment Has Industry Calling For Better Management
August 11, 2004

Cargill Reports Increased Earnings, Strengthened Meat Business
August 10, 2004

Trade Agreement Signed - Framework Calls For Cuts To Export Subsidies, Import Duties
August 9, 2004

CAFTA's Prospects Hinge On Status Quo Election
August 4, 2004

Crystal Workers To Vote On Company Proposal
August 4, 2004

Crews Clean Up Sugar, Molasses
August 3, 2004

HILLSBORO, N.D. - Fourteen cars of a freight train carrying sugar derailed north of here, authorities said. No one was hurt.
August 2, 2004

World Sugar Industry Competes For Markets
August 2, 2004

N.D. Farmer to Preside Over World Association
July 30, 2004

Sugar Producers Talk Trade
July 30, 2004

220 Union Sugar Workers Locked Out In Dispute
July 29, 2004

Brazil, Ethanol Hot Sugar Issues, Worldwide Sugar Producers Talk Business in Weeklong Forum
July 27, 2004

Sugar Farmers Meet in Fargo: Growers From 19 Countries Attend Conference, Tour Local Plants
July 27, 2004

Negotiators Struggle With WTO Framework - Pressure to Reach Agreement Falls on Fears of Doha Round Collapse
July 26, 2004

Farm Trade Talks Take Slight Turn
July 13, 2004

NAFTA Holds A Dirty Secret
July 5, 2004

Cargill Takes Heat Over Ethanol Import Plan
July 2, 2004

Trade Agreement Will Lower Land Rents - But Economist Says Effect on Farmers Will Be Minimal
June 21, 2004

The Political Key to Doha Round - WTO Chairman of Ag Talks Advocates Shift Toward Free Markets
June 14, 2004

CAFTA Opens Another Can of Worms
June 13, 2004

El Salvador Scarred by Child Labor - Subsistence Work in Sugar Cane Fields Leads to Injuries, Continuing Poverty
June 10, 2004

Farmers Brace For Crop Damage
June 2, 2004

Will Crop Insurance Program Survive Budget Cuts?
May 31, 2004

CAFTA: Free Trade Deal Draws Bipartisan Criticism
May 29, 2004

Kerry Statement on CAFTA
May 28, 2004

U.S., Australia Sign FTA Trade Agreement Doesn't Have Support Of Most U.S. Farm Groups
May 24, 2004

Second Time Around - Wind, Cold Take Toll On Crops, Force Some Replanting
May 24, 2004

NEWS: Sugar Boosters Help Kerry Cane Bush on CAFTA
May 21, 2004

Farm Groups Withholding Support From Australia Trade Deal
May 19, 2004

TRADE: Hastert Sets Stage For Summer Vote As U.S. Inks Australia Trade Agreement
May 19, 2004

In Testimony Before House Panel: Sugar Farmer Says Piecemeal Trade Deals Spell Disaster
May 19, 2004

Cargill's Brazilian Ethanol Imports Put Corn Growers Into Vapor Lock
May 18, 2004

Two-way Street - Sugar Industry Says Cargill Deal Shows FTA Pitfalls
May 17, 2004

Warmth Would Sweeten Beet-Growing Conditions
May 17, 2004

Area Farmers Thankful For Tuesday's Million-Dollar Rainfall
May 13, 2004

Central American Trade Bill To Be Signed This Month
May 13, 2004

Farm Bill Spending Falls Far Short Of Projections, Fears
May 13, 2004

Ag Leader Sees Trade Talk Delays
May 12, 2004

Cargill Criticized - Corn Growers Say Plan Would Avoid Ethanol Import Tariffs
May 12, 2004

NORTHWEST MINNESOTA: Crookston Man Runs For State House - Kiel to Face Lieder
May 12, 2004

Trade Deficit Swells to Record $46 Billion
May 12, 2004

East Grand Forks: American Crystal To Clamp Lid On Odor
May 8, 2004

Sugar Door May Open Again
May 3, 2004

Sugar Beet Planting Under Way
May 3, 2004

Ready to Roll
May 3, 2004

Why Is There No Action On CAFTA?
April 29, 2004

Now It's Time For Rain
April 28, 2004

Hardie Says CAFTA Harms North Dakota
April 27, 2004

Sugarbeet Business Not So Sweet
April 18, 2004

Sugar and eggs - Will sugar egg break in trade pact omelet?
April 12, 2004

Chips in beets?
April 12, 2004

Sugar Companies Urge President To Drop CAFTA Concessions
January 15, 2004

Proposed CAFTA Would Lead to Unmanageable Sugar Imports
January 14, 2004

U.S. Sugar Industry Leadership Vows CAFTA Fight
January 13, 2004

Adding Costa Rica In CAFTA Heightend U.S. Sugar Opposition
January 26, 2004