We are canceling the Ag Tax Update tomorrow (Tuesday Feb. 1st) due to the weather BUT please join us on Monday Feb. 7th @ 9:00am at the Southside Grill.If you have any questions please let me know!: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Wednesday , January 26, 2011 FARM SUBSIDIES TEST DEBT-REDUCTION PLEDGES Politico Politico.com reports that some Capitol Hill budget cutters have a problem in their own back pasture : what to do about a system of farm subsidies at a time of record income for producers . In question is the 5 billion in direct payments to farm country including to the home districts of many conservative House members . Even a 20 reduction could yield as much as 1 billion in annual savings , the article
By Vijaya Ramachandran - This is a joint post with Julie Walz. South Africa announced last week that it will launch its own development aid agency in 2011 – the South African Development Partnership Agency. This move places South Africa ahead of other emerging donors such as India and China , who have yet to create separate agencies to [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Tuesday , January 25, 2011 WALL STREET JOURNAL SAYS FARMERS EXPECTED TO INCREASE PLANTING Wall Street Journal WSJ.com reports that U.S . farmers are likely to push plantings to high levels this year , according to analysts' predictions . High commodity prices and low grain supplies are both driving forces behind the predictions , which say up to 327 million acres of crops may be planted . I can't come up with a solution of where all these acres are going to come from , unless we start
By William Savedoff - What a surprise I had last month when preparing for a talk at the World Bank about ways to reduce corruption in the health sector. I was asked to share ideas from a book I recently co-authored, called Anti-Corruption in the Health Sector: Strategies for Transparency and Accountability. In preparing my remarks, I went back [...]
By Tom Bollyky - We want to stop American kids from smoking; why don’t we have the same concern for Asian or African kids? Senator John McCain asked that question on the floor of the U.S. Senate fifteen years ago. And, this week, on the ten-year anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s executive order instructing U.S. agencies to take “strong [...]
By Kaci Farrell - Thank you to everyone who played CGD State of the Union Bingo last night! We had a terrific crowd at our event and want to hear about your festivities. Click here for our reactions and commentary on President Obama’s speech. It’s January in Washington. Time for New Year’s resolutions, extra outerwear and…CGD State of the [...]
By Ben Leo - This is a joint post with Ross Thuotte. The United Nations recently published the 2011 World Economic Situation and Prospects report, which asserts that Sub-Saharan Africa, and possibly parts of South Asia, are off-track for halving extreme poverty levels by 2015. This must sound alarmingly dire and discouraging for those laboring long and hard to [...]
By Amanda Glassman - Stuckler and co-authors bring back the old debate on the IMF and the “additionality” of aid with respect to public expenditure on health arguing that World Bank and IMF macroeconomic policies…could be causing the displacement of health aid. This controversial conclusion was picked up by The Guardian as part of a series on global health [...]
By Tom Bollyky - This is a joint post with Cindy Prieto. Technology is not the answer to all the world’s problems, but advances in medical diagnostics and therapeutics have the potential to improve the lives of millions of the world’s poorest people who suffer from diseases that have few, if any, effective treatments. While recent efforts by product [...]
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Search this site : Login Earth Day TV Events Educator’s Network Primary links Take Action Billion Acts of Green Pledge an Act of Green About the Campaign Background Become an Activist Find Events Become a Volunteer Invite Your Friends Be a Guest Blogger Calls to Action Donate Make a Donation Donate Visit our Store Newsroom Media Center Press Releases News Clips Contact Us Blogs Policy Education International Photo Galleries Programs Earth Day Our Next Earth Day Earth Day 2010 Earth Day 2009 International Women and the Green Economy WAGE Earth Day-India One Million Trees Education Green Schools National Civic Education Project Policy Building the Climate Movement Global Day of Conversation Green Economy Rio 20 Earth Summit About Us Earth Day Network Earth Day History Staff Board of
: skip to main skip to sidebar Kopsa Otte Agriculture Blog Kopsa Otte CPAs Advisors have been involved in Income Tax Planning , Estate Planning Succession Planning for over 30 years . For more information about Kopsa Otte services , please contact us via e-mail at lkopsa kopsaotte.com or call 800-975-4829. Saturday , January 8, 2011 GROUP SUES EPA OVER 15 ETHANOL MANDATE USAgNet NebraskaAgConnection.com USAgNet reports , A festering dispute over allowing more ethanol in gasoline has landed in court . According to the story , a coalition of auto , boat and outdoor power equipment manufacturers is asking the U.S . Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to consider whether the EPA violated federal regulations when in October the agency raised the maximum ethanol level inBy Amanda Glassman - Continuing the N-gram craze (see Charles Kenny’s post here), I’ve compared the Google Books presence of the World Bank to the World Health Organization. The good news: WHO’s star is on the rise! Health systems still has a long way to go and, worryingly, AIDS is past its peak. Get back to work Global Health-ers!By Amanda Glassman - The death toll from Haiti’s 2010 earthquake was at the top of our list of blogs this year, a reflection of the international attention finally being paid to Latin America’s poorest country. Other hot posts dealt with new money in Global Health for vaccines and the US Government’s Global Health Initiative, and all kinds of [...]