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Thursday, June 19, 2003

USDA ANNOUNCES PREVAILING WORLD MARKET PRICE, LOAN DEFICIENCY PAYMENT RATE, AND USER MARKETING CERTIFICATE PAYMENT RATE FOR UPLAND COTTON
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation today announced the prevailing world market price for upland cotton.
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River water war is not over yet River water war is not over yet River water war is not over yet
Coachella Valley water officials are suggesting billions of gallons of water now poured on Imperial Valley fields could be better used elsewhere. The assertion that Imperial Valley farmers could conserve as much as 583,000 acre-feet of water annually was among boxes of documents submitted to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The bureau is trying to determine whether Imperial Valley farmers need 70 percent of California?s share of the river to grow their crops.
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