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The Departments of Justice and Agriculture are holding their final workshop to discuss competition and regulatory issues in the agriculture industry. This final workshop will focus on margins.

According to the DOJ

This workshop will look at the discrepancies between the prices received by farmers and the prices paid by consumers. As a concluding event, discussions from previous workshops will be incorporated into the analysis of agriculture markets nationally.

This all day event wraps up a series of workshops that began in March of 2010. The four previous workshops covered Issues of Concern to Farmers, the Poultry Industry, the Dairy Industry, and the Livestock Industry.

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• Colin Woodall, National Cattlemen's Beef Association Executive Director of Legislative Affairs, brings us up to speed on all of the issues that are important to you and I, in animal agriculture, currently being considered on capitol hill. Part 3.

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• Colin Woodall, National Cattlemen's Beef Association Executive Director of Legislative Affairs, brings us up to speed on all of the issues that are important to you and I, in animal agriculture, currently being considered on capitol hill. Part 2.

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• Colin Woodall, National Cattlemen's Beef Association Executive Director of Legislative Affairs, brings us up to speed on all of the issues that are important to you and I, in animal agriculture, currently being considered on capitol hill. Part 1.

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• Rick Krause, American Farm Bureau Federation Senior Director of Congressional Relations, updates us on the current discussions on the hill on climate change and the potential impact for our business.

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• Would the EPA actually regulate dust a.k.a. "course particulate matter" from our farms?  Roger McEowen offers his thoughts on this subject.

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• Dr. David Meeker, National Renderers Association, highlights the new FDA feed regulations, the renderers requirements and the impact on producers

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• Roger McEowen, Director of the Center for Agricultural Law & Taxation, explains what you should know about the recent court ruling on the EPA and their regulations of course particulate matter, a.k.a. dust

This is part four, the last, of a multi part risk based inspection series to provide you information on what issues are important to risk based inspection (RBI).

Episode four is about 30 minutes long and features preliminary information on implementing risk based inspections, led by Mr. Bobby Palesano, the Deputy Executive Associate of Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

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