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For nearly four decades I have worked with Connecticut River Valley farmers to help protect their livelihoods. Over that time, I0ve seen many changes, both in the make-up of farms and the tools farm families have to manage uncontrollable risk.

0 EPA plans to release final guidance by the end of the year to help growers and applicators deal with weed and pest resistance, agency officials said Thursday at a meeting of the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee.

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Farmers need to stick together and speak up quickly when companies like Dannon make pledges to avoid genetically modified organisms, Land O0Lakes CEO Chris Policinski told a packed audience of dairy producers and industry officials today at a conference in Nashville.

- From 2007 to 2012, the number of farms generating revenue from on-farm renewable energy more than doubled to nearly 58,000 0 or 2.7 percent of U.S. farms. That0s according to a recent report from USDA0s Economic Research Service (ERS), 0

Next week, voters in Washington State will decide whether to implement the first-ever statewide carbon tax. Initiative 732 would establish a tax on carbon emissions, which would increase yearly 0 starting at $15 per metric ton of emissions in July 2017 and moving to $25

Iowa is celebrating the release of the U.S. Wind Industry Third Quarter 2016 Market Report which confirmed the state generated more than a third of its electricity from wind power during the previous year.

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Twenty-five years behind Europe, the U.S. launched its first offshore wind farm last week, thanks partly to the downturn in the oil industry