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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, October 25, 2024
A rail backlog that has kept grain bins full in the Dakotas, Montana and some adjacent states is improving, but rail companies still have a long ways to go.
Two dairy cooperatives comprised of some of the nationðs largest dairy farms in the Midwest and Southwest have merged, creating what could become the fifth-largest U.S. milk producer co-op with many of the industryðs most innovative products and processing technologie
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) is debating whether to list the northern long-eared bat (NLE) as an endangered species, adding fuel to the ongoing controversy surrounding the Endangered Species Act (ESA), according to witnesses at a House Natural Resour
U.S. dairy exporters and trade groups want the Obama Administration to pressure Canada to back out of the part of a new trade agreement that grants preferred access to cheese from the European Union and restricts U.S. sales to an already-tightly-restricted Canadian cheese m
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wants to know what allowing No. 1 cable company Comcast to acquire No. 2 company Time Warner Cable (TWC) ðmight mean for Americans who live in rural areas.ð
With the curtain rising on Monday on Congressðs last weeks of work before the November election, both insiders and outsiders expect to see a near-bare stage ð with all of the actors preoccupied.
Agriculture teachers are leaving their posts every year, while the demand for certified ag teachers is growing as more and more middle and secondary schools in urban areas want agricultural programs in their curriculum.
Farm owners and operators are beginning to make decisions presented to them by the 2014 Farm Bill, most of which will largely depend on their expectations for prices and their own finances.