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Federal Policies on Rural Issues Gain Attention
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Organic Farmers Push for Welfare Standards Implementation
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Agri View: Outlook for 2017
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Olive Oil for More Than Cooking or Eating
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Saving Costs with Cover Crops
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Ag Secretary Perdue Moves to Make School Meals Great Again
…school food requirements cost school districts and states an additional $1.22 billion in Fiscal Year 2015. At the same time costs are going up, most states are reporting that they’ve…
Most Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Find Milk Buyers
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Agri View: Importing Lemons
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NCGA Urges White House: Don’t Withdraw From NAFTA
…trade partners and allies. This decision will cost America’s farmers and ranchers markets that we will never recover. “NAFTA has been a huge win for American agriculture. Corn and corn…
Farmers Share of the Food Dollar is Still Low
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Agri View: Record of Nothing in Particular
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Productivity Growth and the Revival of Russian Agriculture
…comprehensive measure of agricultural performance than crop yields or labor productivity because it accounts for all measurable resources of production (land, labor, materials, capital) instead of only land or labor….
Help a Horse Day
…and abandonment have continued to rise; as owners have found the cost of looking after them too prohibitive to cope with. Help a Horse Day is an opportunity to send…