Terry Everett News

"MONTGOMERY, Ala." An anticipated increase in Canadian lumber imports may have created the weakness in U.S. lumber and sawtimber markets, despite the housing strength in America.

The U.S. House of Representatives has given final passage of funding for new Alabama farm-related research projects totaling $5,468,000. The federal funding in the 2002 agriculture appropriations bill includes six projects personally requested by Congressman Terry Everett to help the state gain footing in agribusiness.

Alabama peanut producers are getting some help in the unexpected form of a military construction bill thanks to action taken by Congress just before it recessed for the summer June 30.

That was the word used by U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions and U.S. Rep. Terry Everett following an aerial tour of drought-stricken southeast Alabama last weekend.

Pelham, from Montgomery, has served as the State Director for U.S. Representative Terry Everett since 1993.