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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.”
In a Farm Journal email survey sent in October, 56% of the more than 1,500 respondents said if elections were held tomorrow, they would vote to re-elect President Trump.
Officials signaled they expect recent hurricanes to have just a short-term impact on the economy.
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The order created a task force to examine “barriers to economic prosperity in rural America.”
The minutes also showed that just one official voted against the March interest rate hike.
New rules on ammonia reporting for poultry farms need more time to properly analyze, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
13 states sue to stop cage free eggs law in Massachusetts
On Feb. 24, AgDay will have team coverage of an important issue to animal agriculture—the proposed law on caged hens.
This is seen as a victory for poultry and livestock farmers.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is investigating about two dozen complaints from farmers about a weed killer used on genetically modified soybean fields that can tolerate the herbicide.
When California farmer John Duarte decided to settle his legal battle with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rather than risk losing his family owned nursery operation, a couple of signals were sent to all of agriculture according to Don Parish, senior director of regulatory relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation. Duarte agreed to pay a $1.1 million settlement after being accused by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of improperly disturbing a wetland when he plowed a wheat field.
Proponents of a bill that would designate a Montana state soil are finding it to be a tough row to hoe in the Legislature so far.
A total of 35 wheat industry visitors are in Washington, D.C., for an annual fly-in focusing on wheat research.
Congress is furiously working to finish several important resolutions before 2017 comes to an end, including an $81 billion disaster aid package.
Fight Over Ethanol Escalates as Bankruptcy Refuels Debate (1)
Is agriculture exempt from the permitting requirements of the Clean Water Act? Growers will have to wait a while longer for an answer to that question following a $1.1 million settlement in a landmark case this week.
Mexican Elevators, Feed Mills Possibly Importing from South America Mexico is a deficit ag producer and for things like corn, imports are essential. While proximity and infrastructure has made the U.S. a logical trading partner, buyers here are now looking to the sea. As the feed goes out, the trains roll in to Grupo Gramosa, a commercial elevator and feed mill in Queretaro, Mexico. “We receive trains full of grain, mostly yellow corn,” said Jorge Castillo, operations manager of Grupo Gramosa. “We receive about five or six trains a month.”
Are farmers protected by the agricultural practices exemption of the Clean Water Act? That is the centerpiece of a court hearing getting underway in California.
Lobbying group president says he brokered deal on biofuel law.
Tariffs could make Argentine kernels cheaper than American.
Amid new tensions with China, the Obama administration on Thursday launched its 15th challenge against Beijing at the Word Trade Organization, escalating a long-simmering debate over practices that U.S. officials say limit American farmers’ ability to export rice, wheat and corn to the Asian powerhouse.