…support. Priority subject matter includes: Basic livestock, forest management, and crop farming practices Innovative farm, ranch, and private, nonindustrial forest land transfer strategies Entrepreneurship and business training Financial and risk…
Banking Group Supports Bill Offering Tax Relief for Rural Lending
…in the rural farming and housing markets. As espoused in its Plan for Prosperity regulatory relief platform, ICBA supports targeted tax relief for community bank lending consistent with advantages enjoyed…
Support for Minority and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers
…24 states to provide training, outreach and technical assistance for socially disadvantaged, tribal and veteran farmers and ranchers. Vilsack says the grants will “help bring traditionally underserved people into farming,”…
Clean Water Act: Report Details how Agencies Expand Authority
…the Senate committee, James Inhofe, R-Okla., said the EPA and Corps have been “eroding traditional exemptions” contained in the Clean Water Act for normal farming activities. Several specific examples in…
State Proposes Regulation on Pesticide Use
…protections to children when agricultural pesticides are applied close to schools and child day-care facilities*. Many K-12 schools and child day-care facilities are located near farming operations and increasingly teachers,…
Arkansas Representative Introduces Tax Deferred Savings Bill for Farmers
…Crawforddiscussed the details of the legislation and how it would work in practice, including its impact on rural communities and banks. The audio here. “Farming is a risky business, and…
Agri View: American Agriculture
…crops produced for export. They remain the principle crops in the southeast where the most of the early farming took place. Crops changed as the Midwest and the Southwest were…
Millennials and Organic: a winning combination
…Magazine to conduct surveys of the organic buying patterns of households since 2009. This year’s survey marks the first time that generational buying habits have been studied. The survey looked…
State Ag Directors Say Next Farm Bill Could Provide Relief
…Carolina Agriculture Secretary Hugh Weathers said “if getting new people into farming is seen as that vital, then it has a place in the farm bill,” in regards to helping…
Tunnel Project Key for Valley Water System
…problem that was created well after farming was established in Central California. “Where these pumps are either shut off or operating minimally, that doesn’t help,” Isom said. “We built the…
Agri View: Bee Survival
Everett Griner talks about a challenge for bee keepers in today’s Agri View. Bee Survival There is no solution to what causes CCD but to those studying the problem and…
Clinton in Favor of WOTUS, Trump Against
…also said she was pleased that EPA maintained in WOTUS the “long-standing exemptions for common farming practices.” Farm groups, however, tend to disagree and claim the EPA is ignoring the…
FWS Proposes Endangered Species Act Protections for Bumble Bee Species
…Wildlife Service Rusty Patched Bumble Bee (Bombus affinis) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) as endangered under the Endangered Species…
Duarte Nursery Stands Up to Federal Regulators
…ordinary farming. They’re starting with me and a few others. We need to stop them before they put more farm families in economic peril – before they make farming a…