…Farmer How to Keep Honeybees Join the backyard beekeeping revolution and keep pollinators buzzing. The payback’s pretty sweet. By Rene Ebersole You can hardly say “honeybee” anymore without hearing the…
11th-Hour Push for GMO Labeling Standard
…law goes into effect July 1. Speaking on the call were Charles Conner, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives president and CEO; Pamela Bailey, Grocery Manufacturers Association president and CEO; Leslie…
NMPF Endorses Creating Tax Incentive Legislation
NMPF Endorses New Legislation Creating Tax Incentive for Investments in Biogas and Nutrient Recovery Legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives will help dairy farmers increase their investment in…
Market Match Program Helps Families and Farmers
…farmers’ market shoppers. As a result of the new customer influx, nearly 40% of participating farmers report expanding their operations by hiring more workers at the market or on the…
Agri View: Feral Hog Control
…et al. 1979; Baber and Coblentz 1986; Peine and Farmer 1990) and the increase in the availability of habitat where control efforts are not allowed due to sale of ranch…
Western View: Use a Plow, Go to Jail?
…or the Army Corps of Engineers, but I have a very similar dry puddle in my back pasture. Any farmer listening to this might have one, too. The Clean Water…
NMPF Chairman Mooney Speaks on Capital Hill
…Mooney said that well-negotiated trade agreements have the potential to increase export opportunities for America’s dairy farmers, but he warned that the terms of free trade agreements must be tenaciously…
Agri View: Dairy Farming Changes
…Mehring milking machine in the 1890s provided a more efficient milking method for the farmer and made it possible to produce a cleaner milk product. Shown here is a farmer…
Dolcini Tours Farms
…directly to markets and restaurants. During this meeting, the producers learned from Dolcini about what USDA is doing to support local foods and direct-market farmers. Bothers, Gary and Vernon Frederickson,…
New ‘Homegrown’ Blog
A closer look into the life of America’s farmers and ranchers The House Agriculture Committee debuted a new blog, Homegrown, to chronicle daily life of American farmers and ranchers from…
Quiviut
…Farmer This Season’s Hottest Fiber: Qiviut, the Undercoat of Musk Oxen By Dan Nosowitz “The oft-cited fact is that it’s softer than cashmere and eight times warmer than wool, though…
NMPF Board Adopts Resolution
…Chairman of NMPF and a dairy farmer from Rogersville, Missouri. “Farmers have overwhelmingly adopted these crop technologies because they increase productivity while enhancing agricultural sustainability.” NMPF’s Board of Directors, and…
Sec. Vilsack Announces $16.8 Million in Grants
…seen with the use of healthy incentives and with many of the projects being run at farmers markets, we’re also helping to strengthen local and regional food systems.” FINI is…
Chinese Pork Prices Continue to Rise
…cool the market. Pro Farmer’s First Thing Today reports farmers are holding back pigs from slaughter as they work to rebuild herds after the industry was engaged in widespread culling…