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**The USDA’s latest cold storage report showed strong retail and export demand for meat. Pork was down 10% on the year, despite record pork production during March, including a 68% drop in bellies, and beef supplies were 4% lower, even after a 7% year to year increase in production last month...

  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — House Democrats in Washington have released their supplemental budget proposal, which would close several tax exemptions to pay for the salary increases of public school teachers. Unveiled Monday, the plan would alter the $38 billion, two-year state budget adopted in 2015, including directing money from the state's emergency fund to pay for needs such as wildfire suppressio