Washington DC -June 16- U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln, (D-Ark.), and Ranking Member Saxby Chambliss, (R-Ga.), have sent a letter to Richard A. Lidinsky, Jr., Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, expressing concern with reports that U.S. agricultural exporters are experiencing serious service issues with the foreign-flagged ocean carrier industry.

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Washington DC -April 16- USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has invited public comment on several proposed rules designed to increase the production of advanced biofuels and the development of biorefineries. The programs are authorized under the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (The Farm Bill).

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Washington DC - April 15 - Working gas in storage was 1,756 Bcf as of Friday, April 9, 2010, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 87 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 64 Bcf higher than last year at this time.

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Washington DC - April 15 - The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported that U.S. freight railroads saw a 7.5 percent rise with 16 of the 19 major commodity categories tracked by AAR recording higher carloads during March compared with the same month last year.

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Washington DC - April 14 - The U.S. Import Price Index rose 0.7 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The increase was attributable to higher prices for both fuel and nonfuel imports and followed a 0.2 percent decline in February.

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Washington DC - April 9 - The Association of American Railroads reported that U.S. railroads saw sharp gains in traffic for the week ending April 3, 2010, up 10.7 percent from the comparable week in 2009.

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Washington DC - April 9 - The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report provides USDA’s comprehensive forecasts of supply and demand for major U.S. and global crops and U.S. livestock.

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Washington DC - April 8 - Working gas in storage was 1,669 Bcf as of Friday, April 2, 2010, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 31 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 2 Bcf less than last year at this time.

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Washington DC - April 7 - U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 14.6 million barrels per day during the week ending April 2, 370 thousand barrels per day above the previous week’s average. Refineries operated at 84.5 percent of their operable capacity last week.

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Washington DC - April 7 - EIA forecasts that regular-grade motor gasoline retail prices will average $2.92 per gallon during this summer’s driving season (the period between April 1 and September 30), up from $2.44 per gallon last summer.

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Washington DC - April 2 - USDA released 2009 actual and 2010 benchmark yields for Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program for wheat, long grain rice, medium grain rice, oats and barley in a majority of states.

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Washington DC - April 1 - U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk transmitted to Congress the 2010 National Trade Estimate (NTE), which describes significant barriers to U.S. trade and investment faced in the last year as well as the actions being taken by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to address those barriers.

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Washington DC - April 1 - U.S. farmers plan to plant a record-high 78.1 million acres to soybeans in 2010, according to the Prospective Plantings report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

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Washington DC - March 31 - U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 14.2 million barrels per day during the week ending March 26, 192 thousand barrels per day above the previous week’s average. Refineries operated at 82.6 percent of their operable capacity last week.

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Washington DC - March 31 - Corn stocks in all positions on March 1, 2010 totaled 7.69 billion bushels, up 11 percent from March 1, 2009. All wheat totaled 1.35 billion bushels, up 30 percent. Soybeans stored totaled 1.27 billion bushels, down 2 percent from March 1, 2009.

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