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U.S.D.A. budget emphasizes
security, aims to limit other costs
WASHINGTON - Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns on Feb. 6 unveiled the
Bush administration's proposed fiscal year
2007 budget for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. In keeping with the administration's stated intent of reining in spending, Mr. Johanns proposed total U.S.D.A.
outlays in 2007 at $92.8 billion, down $2.9
billion from estimated expenditures in the
current year ending Sept. 30, 2006. Fiscal
2005 outlays totaled $85 billion.
As in each of the president's budgets
submitted to Congress since the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the administration
emphasized the need to support programs
relating to ensuring the security of the U.S.

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food supply. Mr. Johanns proposed budget
savings come from reduced outlays in other mandatory and discretionary programs.
Outlays on mandatory U.S.D.A. programs in fiscal 2007 were proposed at $71.3
billion, down $1.7 billion from estimated
fiscal 2006 expenditures. Mandatory programs provide services required by law and
include most nutrition assistance programs,
farm commodity programs, export promotion programs and a number of conservation programs. Such programs may be limited by legislation but not eliminated.
Outlays on discretionary programs in fiscal 2007 were proposed at $21.5 billion, down
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keted domestically in fiscal year 2006."
The Feb. 3 announcement followed by
three days a discussion on sugar and other
industry issues between Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns and Robb MacKie,
president and chief executive officer of the
American Bakers Association.
"Secretary Johanns and I had a very good
dialogue regarding the wholesale baking
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Sugar supply restrictions eased;
moves follow dialogue with MacKie
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department
of Agriculture has raised the overall allotment quantity (O.A.Q.) for domestic
sugar and increased sugar import quotas to meet domestic sugar needs in the
2005-06 marketing year.
The U.S.D.A. said it increased the O.A.Q.
by 525,000 tons, raw value, to 9,350,000
tons to "permit all beet and cane sugar
produced in the United States to be mar-

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WASHINGTON - Production of flour by U.S. mills in
2005 totaled 393,129,000 cwts, down 0.2% from 393,925,000
in 2004, according to preliminary estimates by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of the Census. Output
was the smallest since 1995, when it was 388,689,000 cwts
and was 28,141,000 cwts below the record 421,270,000 cwts
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Benefits of a low-fat
diet brought into
question in new study
CHICAGO - A series of articles in the Feb.
8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association deconstructs the presumed
benefits of a low-fat diet. A study that
included nearly 50,000 women followed
over 8 years indicates a diet low in fat, but
high in fruit, vegetables and grains, does
not significantly reduce the risk of breast
cancer, colorectal cancer or cardiovascular
disease in postmenopausal women.
In the first article, Dr. Ross L. Prentice
of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center, Seattle, and colleagues with the
Women's Health Initiative (W.H.I.) Dietary Modification Trial, examined the effect of a low-fat diet on the incidence of
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