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Sweet Corn Insecticide Trial Results

Corn Earworm Control in Minnesota Sweet Corn

Guthion Label Change

Farmers Urge Congress to Keep COOL

Farmers Urge Congress to Keep COOL

From: The Vegetable Growers News, Sparta, MI

Sept. 9, 2003 About 200 farmers and ranchers from 29 states will be in Washington through Wednesday to ask Congress and the administration to keep COOL by funding mandatory country -of -origin labeling.

During National Farmers Unions annual legislative fly-in, Sept. 8-10, agriculture producers from across the country will urge Congress to uphold funding for mandatory COOL, which will soon be considered in conference committee.

This year, one of our organizations top priorities is to make sure Congress keeps the funding for COOL and the administration keeps the laws original intent during the rulemaking process, NFU President Dave Frederickson said. Mandatory country-of-origin food labeling is a marketing tool for U.S. producers and an information tool for U.S. consumers.

The COOL law, which was included in the 2002 Farm Bill, requires grocery stores to label fresh and frozen meats, fruits, vegetables, fish and peanuts with the country in which the product was grown, raised and processed. The law is set to take effect September 2004.

Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, hutch002@tc.umn.edu
Jeanne Ciborowski, IPM Program, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us
Production Editor: Suzanne Wold Burkness, Research Fellow, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, woldx018@tc.umn.edu

Last Revised September 11, 2003.
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