<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ad01c72c-5d1a-4ebc-9730-8a2c5c4a21e4/A35C929B-3B83-4EA9-BD8C-FD788423AF37/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00186.htm" href="http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00186.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">scoop.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00186.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2"><H1>Farmers to tell U.S. and the EU what they think</H1> <SPAN class="byline"><B>Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 10:43 am</B> <B>Press Release: Federated Farmers</B></SPAN> </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00186.htm"><P>“Right now, we’re locking horns with European Union and United States farm lobbyists. Our opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday was a good start, but we wish to do more in that space, a lot more.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00186.htm"><P>“That’s why we need farmers to join us. We’re a membership organisation at the end of the day and as Tom Wolfe wrote, ‘no bucks, no Buck Rogers.’</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00186.htm"><P>“That’s why we’re inviting all farmers to sign an open letter to President Barack Obama and the President of the European Commission, JoséManuel Barroso. We’ll tell them what you think, what you really, really think of their subsidies.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00186.htm"><P>“So all we ask of farmers is to head along to Stand PE2 to see what we are up to and how easy it is to join Federated Farmers,” Mr Nicolson concluded.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00186.htm"><P>TELL THE EU AND THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THEIR SUBSIDIES AT STAND PE2</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A35C929B-3B83-4EA9-BD8C-FD788423AF37/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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