AgDay
Hosted by Haley Bickelhaupt, AgDay provides the nation’s farmers and ranchers with the latest news, weather and business headlines, and features the people and places unique to the industry and small-town America.
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U.S. adults surveyed don’t always agree with the scientific consensus on certain topics, including the safety of GMOs, climate change causes and more.
There is a “huge chasm” between the Obama Administration and congressional Republicans on taxes and other issues, Bret Baier, anchor for FOX News, told thousands of cattlemen.
The federal government has fined the Lynchburg Livestock Market $10,000 for improperly allowing its bank to use money from a custodial account.
State Sen. Brian Munzlinger announced legislation Monday that would create tax incentives for Missouri landowners to work with beginning farmers, an effort he says could help attract a younger generation to agriculture.
Farmers already scrambling to find workers in California — the leading U.S. grower of fruits, vegetables and nuts — fear an even greater labor shortage under President Barack Obama’s executive action to block some 5 million people from deportation.
Move over farmers’ markets. More than 300 food hubs around the country are also providing small farms another outlet to sell locally raised food to consumers.
Adopted in May 2012, the ordinance is intended to promote agribusiness in Hancock County while preserving the quality and character of the county’s neighboring uses, the ordinance reads.
Restoring the tax provision would allow farms and dairies to write off capital purchases instead of depreciating them over time.
During remarks at the Farm Journal Forum, he says he’s “bullish” on ethanol industry and says the opportunity for agriculture is “unlimited.”
Farmers worry about collisions between farm vehicles and cyclists and joggers, and they anticipate trail users will object to chemical sprays and farming practices.