Huge Ag Sales Boost & Gray Wolf Proposal

Friday May 6th, 2011 27 Views Northwest Report

Huge Ag Sales Boost & Gray Wolf Proposal. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

U.S. farm and food interests would get a huge export sales boost under a proposed trade agreement with South Korea according to Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack.

VILSACK: To give you a sense of the importance of the Korean Free Trade Agreement, if you took the previous 9 free trade agreements and asked how much ag activity was a result of those 9 previous agreements it would not equal the amount of the Korean Free Trade Agreement.

Which could translate to just under $2 billion dollars a year in extra ag sales and would take the total ag sales dollars to Korea to $7.2 billion dollars.

The Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to delist biologically recovered gray wolf populations in the Western Great Lakes, and reinstate the Service’s 2009 decision to delist biologically recovered gray wolf populations in the Northern Rocky Mountains. The Northern Rocky Mountain Distinct Population Segment, where the grey wolf is being delisted includes Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon, Washington and Utah.

Now here’s today’s Washington Grange report.

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