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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.
During remarks at the Farm Journal Forum, he says he’s “bullish” on ethanol industry and says the opportunity for agriculture is “unlimited.”
Restoring the tax provision would allow farms and dairies to write off capital purchases instead of depreciating them over time.
Farmers worry about collisions between farm vehicles and cyclists and joggers, and they anticipate trail users will object to chemical sprays and farming practices.
A few feet of yellow fabric may represent the next frontier in reducing pesticides in the Clackamas River, according to a story in The Oregonian.
Ponsi Trivisvavet might reside in Minnesota, but she lives in the world of global agriculture.
Much talk has circulated about the growing role that unmanned aircraft systems, commonly known as drones, will have on our daily lives in the future.
Faced with the prospect of defeat that would change how it enforces the Clean Water Act (CWA) on animal operations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to drop an appeal of a lower court decision, Alt v. EPA.
Maui County is home to just 160,000 residents, but the moratorium could have effects across the nation because multinational seed producers Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical research and develop new varieties there.
Yesterday, NCBA and the Public Lands Council filed comments calling for the immediate withdrawal of the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed “waters of the United States” rule.
Don’t care for politics? You’re not alone, especially this year, when the approval rating for Congress falls somewhere near palmer amaranth on the popularity scale in farm country.
Indiana and other Midwestern corn and soybean farmers are being accused of threatening the survival of monarch butterflies.
Despite some legal hiccups, researchers had good success growing the crop.
The city of Sioux Falls, S.D., plans to spend more than $1 million to pay farmers to keep their cattle out of the Big Sioux River and its tributaries.
Crops were damaged across much of southern and eastern Idaho when a series of ill-timed storms caused grain to sprout before it could be harvested and some crops to mold in the fields.
Democratic candidate Chuck Hassebrook said he would work to lower property taxes, but he’d prefer that most of the benefits go to owner-occupied farms and landowners who actually live in Nebraska.
The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association (MCA) commends the passage of HB 1326, includes issues that MCA members identified as “top priorities” for the 2014 legislative session.
Ranch owners have agreed to pay $795,000 for wetlands preservation and $300,000 in penalties.
Soils with seasonal highs can benefit greatly from being tiled.
Commodity prices may be down, but land prices remain on the rise, according to the latest USDA Land Values Summary.
EPA tries to clear up confusion and concerns about its proposed changes to the Clean Water Act, yet farmers remain skeptical.
Members of the NCBA addressed current policy priorities at the 2014 Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver this week, passing new resolutions and directives for the 2014 Policy Agenda.
The country’s next generation of farmers and ranchers may have a better chance at success with extra help that the federal government unveiled Monday.
When enrollment opened for the USDA disaster assistance programs this April, LaNelle Martin was one of the first to sign up at the Kimball County FSA office in Nebraska.
Importantly for members of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, this bill contains a provision that will ease the burden of the EPA’s Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure rule.