02/15/05 Tyson back up; Fine tuning?

02/15/05 Tyson back up; Fine tuning?

By no later than next week, Tyson Foods beef plants in Boise, Pasco, and three others in the Midwest will resume operations. It was last month that Tyson cut operations at the Boise plant and closed down a second shift at the Pasco facility due to factors in the cattle markets. Tyson plans to operate the plants at reduced levels of production once operations resume, that is, until market conditions improve. Could the ag part of the Bush Administration's proposed Fiscal Year 2006 budget already be facing some fine tuning? According to reports, U.S.D.A. is altering specifics of part of the budget that proposes a $250,000 cap on farm payment programs. Initially, the cap would be on combined farm payment programs, but now reports say U.S.D.A. there should be individual per program payment caps&something similar to the current approach to payment limitations. Idaho and Washington are among seventeen states receiving federal Environmental Quality Incentives Program grants from U.S.D.A. Over $22 million dollars was awarded recently to state who demonstrated high levels of performance in implementing the program last year. That is especially true in the realms of providing technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers. Idaho is set to receive over $1.4 million dollars in E.Q.I.P. grants, while Washington was awarded over $1.1 million. Now with today's "Food Forethought", here's Susan Allen. ALLEN: Despite the fact that today's story involves the issue of global warming it's subject is actually a bit "frigid", especially after what for most of us was a warm and fuzzy or maybe even a hot Valentines day. Irregardless of whether global warming is a reality or fabrication there is evidence that the global ice cap is melting and those immediately effected by its demise, the Eskimos and Inuit people of North America are concerned their culture will disappear along with it. While the majority of people feel environmental issue shouldn't be turned into a human rights ones, the Eskimos believe that they should be compensated for global warming and want to express this opinion to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights along with the position that the United States is the main culprit by being virtue of being one of the largest contributors. . Those in the scientific community who view global warming as environmental propaganda, see the Eskimos as pawns for a leftist agenda that promotes the stance, if you don't believe in global warming you are anti- Eskimo. I'm Susan Allen and this is "Food Forethought".
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