Lawmakers Head To Geneva To Observe Lagging Ag Talks.

The article reports that U.S. House Agriculture General Farm Commodities Subcommittee Chairman Jerry Moran and Jo Ann Emerson, a member of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, have left for Geneva, Switzerland to check on the negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha round agricultural talks. A Geneva-based source close to the talks said Crawford Falconer, the New Zealand ambassador to the WTO who chairs the trade talks, told the agriculture negotiators that if they cannot reach agreement on "key issues such as numbers for formulas," those issues will be handled by the higher level WTO Trade Negotiations Committee and the heads of delegations.