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According to the "Farm Bills" section of the National Agricultural Law Center webpage, a section containing the full text and associated resources for all Farm Bills from 1933 to present, there have been nine major pieces of Farm Bill legislation since 1965 (1965, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1996 and 2002).

Officials said Monday the state and federal government will pay a logging company $9.2 million to forest more than 18,000 acres of northern Wisconsin timberland but leave it undeveloped and available for recreational use.

The Pembina Trail Resource Conservation and Development Council, headquartered in Red Lake Falls, MN, has received a $25,000 Northwest Minnesota Foundation (NMF) grant for a project that will test fuels developed for a biomass gasification power plant.

Chickening out ; ANIMAL ANTIBIOTICS Medicating livestock only threatens humans Why did the chicken take the antibiotic? Not because she was sick, necessarily, but because some other birds in her beak-by-giblet poultry barn were sick. Which isn't surprising, considering their less-than-sanitary living conditions.

The sweet smell of wood smoke and the beefy sound of propeller-driven airplanes hung in the air at the end of the Gunflint Trail on Sunday as crews maintained their attack on the Alpine Lake fire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

It was never my intention to own a forest. I blame it on my mother-in-law. Sixteen years ago, my wife, Amy, and I, at her mother's urging, searched for a small house to buy instead of dumping more money into the extortionate rents in our Montana university town.

Helicopters are hoisting dead trees out of the San Bernardino National Forest to ease the danger of wildfires, a method that lessens environmental damage and allows timber removal in areas too steep for logging vehicles.

EDMONTON -- Alberta will wrap up its aggressive summer campaign against the spread of the destructive mountain pine beetle by burning a forested valley northwest of Jasper.