Policy
Minneapolis newspaper editorial urges the banning of raw milk sales.
Lawmakers’ road map is taking them through farm country.
The government is making plans for legislation to reduce the U.S.’s carbon footprint. Will agriculture receive a stamp of approval?
CNH has confirmed that it is choosing selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology as the method to meet interim Tier 4 standards.
The afternoon panels testifying in the USDA and U.S. Department of Justice hearing on dairy market consolidation in offered a fascinating lesson in the dynamics of fluid milk markets.
The Internet lit up last week about a possible Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas tax on dairy cows that would amount to a $175 per cow annual fee simply for ruminating.
Links to university calculators to help you decide if you should enroll in ACRE
The Ohioans for Livestock Care coalition and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) have reached an agreement to implement eight farm-animal care reform issues.
In an effort to “recharge America,” USDA announced this week it is developing a regional strategy to help achieve the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standards.
President Barack Obama’s budget plan for fiscal year 2010 contains more problematic details than most expected. At least one of the ag provisions is labeled dead on arrival. The provision: Deny direct payments to farmers with gross sales of more than $500,000—and shift those dollars to nutrition efforts.
The cost of calling a local renderer is likely to go up in the very near future.
John McCoy, of Orthman Manufacturing Inc. and President of the Farm Equipment Manufacturers Association, said the Association is among the many agricultural groups urging the Ways & Means House Committee to make permanent the five-year depreciation schedule for agriculture equipment
California dairy producer groups want the state agriculture department to reconsider its recent decision to remove the whey factor from the milk pricing formula.
Consumer wishes and wants travel quickly up and down the food chain and can drastically alter the entire food system. “Consumers in the developed world have come to look at the food system, I think, as something as a utility,” says William Hallman, of the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers University. “You turn on the faucet and orange juice comes out, you got to the supermarket and the food is just there.”
USDA’s spring wheat planting progress rating for the week ended May 23.
USDA’s spring wheat planting progress rating for the week ended June 13.
The $19.1 billion disaster aid bill passed by the Senate on Thursday waives the adjusted gross income for the recently announced 2019 Market Facilitation Program (MFP).