WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (TNSRep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R46918) on Sept. 22, 2021, entitled "Key Issues in WTO Agriculture Negotiations" by agricultural policy specialist Anita Regmi: * * * SUMMARY On July 29, 2021, the chair of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Agriculture released a draft text on agriculture issues for consideration at the WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12). If the trade ministers convene as planned from Novem  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news on Sept. 20, 2021: By Katie Lange Army 1st Lt. Axel H. Reed joined the Union Army soon after the Civil War broke out. He fought valiantly through the entire conflict, even after he lost an arm during one of the two battles that earned him the Medal of Honor. A descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims, Reed was born on March 13, 1835, in Hartford, Maine; he was the youngest of seven children. Unfortunately, his mother  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Sept. 23 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development issued the following news: First Lady Frances Wolf and Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Deputy Secretary for Marketing, Tourism & Film Carrie Fischer Lepore today celebrated Pennsylvania's rich food history and heritage with the launch of four new culinary trails: Picked: An Apple Trail; Baked: A Bread Trail; Chopped: A Charcuterie Trail; and Pickled: A Fermented Trail.  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: Yesterday, U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Representative Carolyn Bourdeaux (GA-07) urged Mondelez International, Inc. to negotiate a fair contract that will result in equitable solutions for their more than 1,000 Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers' International (BCTGM) workers in Atlanta and across the country. These workers have been on strike fo  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 22 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: A study on stone tools from an outpost of the Roman Empire has found that for ancient bakers and millers, having the right tools was a matter of geology. A team of geoscientists and archaeologists made the discovery by analyzing samples of the tools at a University of Texas at Austin geology lab, finding that dough mixing vats and millstones from Roman-era ruins of Volubilis, a city in Morocco, were   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (TNSRep) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economics, Statistics and Market Information System issued the following World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (No. WASDE - 616) report on Sept. 10, 2021: * * * Here are excerpts: WHEAT: The outlook for 2021/22 U.S. wheat this month is for reduced supplies, slightly higher domestic use, unchanged exports, and decreased ending stocks. Supplies are reduced as imports are lowered 10 million bushels to 135 million on t  more