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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Recruiting military veterans and youth into farming should be a major goal of the next farm bill, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said today at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event to highlight its Hiring our Heroes program.
USDA was ordered to look into the possibility of creating a catfish insurance program and the result is disappointing to many of the nation@s catfish farmers
As the agricultural economy enters a down period in which low commodity prices have strained farm incomes and concerns about liquidity have reached an all-time high, agricultural bankers are ready and willing to help Americas farmers and ranchers.
China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) announced that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. cleared its proposed $43 billion takeover of Syngenta removing one of the biggest potential obstacles to the deal.
Donald Trump, EPA WOTUS, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, Michael Fitzgerald, Non-GMO, genetically modified organism, Food Safety Inspection Service, Catfish insurance program, R-CALF USA, Charles Herbster, Amanda Renteria, Bill Bullard
From underwater fields to drowned cattle, the damage to Louisiana farmers and ranchers from the recent storms and continued flooding is extensive, but state officials say they are doing what they can to prevent losses.
The Environmental Protection Agency has been taken to the woodshed by its Office of Inspector General, which said the agency has failed to provide legally required reports to Congress.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack awarded almost $18 million in funding for projects impacting beginning farmers and ranchers on the heels of a roundtable discussion in his home state with producers who are just getting started.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2016 - Slickspot peppergrass, a plant that lives on about 60,000 acres of sagebrush-steppe habitat in southwestern Idaho, will once again be considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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