Spotty rains help some, but miss others
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Spotty rains help some, but miss others
The Biden administration plans to issue a new rule to protect the rights of farmers who raise cows, chickens and hogs against the country's largest meat processors as part of a plan to encourage more competition in the agriculture sector.
Des Moines has become an extreme example of the conflict over clean water between agriculture and cities in farm states with minimal regulation.
Hog prices have dropped after China reported more than 98 percent of its herds are back to its pre-swine flu level.
In February 2017, weeks after President Trump selected Sonny Perdue to be U.S. agriculture secretary, Perdue’s company bought a small grain plant in South Carolina from ADM.
Farmers reported many crops benefited from much-needed rain but more moisture is needed, especially in the northern two-thirds of the state. At the same time, other parts of the state got too much rain.
Waivers had surged under former Republican President Donald Trump, provoking a backlash from biofuel advocates who argued Congress only intended the exemptions to be short-term relief.
But recent rains are helping outlook.
An effort in Oregon follows bills passed earlier this year in Washington and Colorado to grant overtime pay to farmworkers.
Iowa’s corn condition rated 63 percent as good to excellent —14 percentage points below the week before. Soybean condition rated 61 percent as good to excellent — 12 points worse than last week.
A federal judge has halted a loan forgiveness program for farmers of color in response to a lawsuit alleging the program discriminates against white farmers.
New Liberty’s fire chief said the man was doing some work in the manure tank when he got stuck.
When Laura Krouse launched the Abbe Hills Farm Community Supported Agriculture in 1995, she had 10 shareholders. This year, 150 …
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