California voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use — an issue that has sown deep division here among longtime growers. But many fear Proposition 64 will bring costly regulations and taxes and could put them out of business if corporate interests and big farms take over.
Kentucky’s U.S. Senate candidates differed sharply on federal farm policies Thursday, offering the most substantive policy discussion of the campaign in a race that so far has focused more on Rand Paul’s presidential aspirations and Jim Gray’s tenure as mayor of the state’s second-largest city.
Six major farm organizations have declared that property tax reform, instead of a constitutional protection for a “right to farm,” should be the main priority for keeping agriculture in Nebraska strong.
With a failed ballot measure that sought changes to the state’s decades-old corporate farming law in the rear-view mirror, a potentially lengthy federal court battle over its legality has arisen.
This year, shortly before Memorial Day, signs identifying the various crops that are grown in Idaho and Lewis counties began sprouting up along U.S. Highway 95, State Highway 162 between Grangeville and Nezperce and in some spots beside U.S. Highway 12.
An eastern Indiana ministry that operates a children’s camp has sued local zoning officials, warning that a planned 1,400-cow dairy farm they approved for a nearby site will ruin the summer camp experience due to odors, dust and manure runoff.
Gov. Nikki Haley vetoed a bill Monday that would send $40 million in aid to South Carolina farmers, saying farmers may complain loudly, but don’t need a bailout that isn’t being offered to all small businesses.
An estimated 3 million commercial truck and bus drivers must electronically record their hours behind the wheel under a new government rule aimed at enforcing regulations designed to prevent fatigue.
