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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Feb 29, 2008 - At the request of senior House and Senate agriculture committee staff, the U.S. Department of Agriculture today provided a detailed document developed from Administration analysis of impacts to current USDA programs - in the absence of enactment of a new farm bill or an extension of the 2002 farm bill past March 15, 2008.
The U.S. government's humanitarian relief agency will significantly scale back emergency food aid to some of the world's poorest countries this year because of soaring global food prices, and the U.S. Agency for International Development is drafting plans to reduce the number of recipient nations, the amount of food provided to them, or both, officials at the agency said.
Rushford, Minn. -- IF you've stood in line at a farmers' market recently, you know that the local food movement is thriving, to the point that small farmers are having a tough time keeping up with the demand.
The expansion of the ethanol market could contribute to fighting climate change if the trade barriers in the developed economies are removed, said World Bank president Robert Zoellick, in a nod to Brazil's desire to boost its alternative fuels.
The developers of a successful Oregon State University program to help family forest landowners and farmers sort through estate planning are now marketing the concept across the United States.
The goal, experts say, is to help address a growing national crisis -- aging landowners who become overwhelmed by family disputes and the complex issues of land transitions.
Today FSC launched a market information pack that provides many indicative and revealing figures and statistics on FSC growth, market share, label recognition and other strong indicators of the growth in supply and demand for FSC products.
Seven 700-year-old trees sit under a 13-watt fluorescent lamp on Rick Mock's dinner table in this small town west of Astoria.
All are living pieces of what is thought to be one of the oldest living things in Oregon: the giant Sitka spruce along U.S. 26 near Seaside known as the Seaside Spruce or Klootchy Creek Giant.
There is never a good time for 125-mile-an-hour winds to hopscotch across your tree farm and blow down millions of dollars' worth of timber that's taken decades to grow.
December was certainly one of the worst times ? right in the middle of a home-building bust that has idled many sawmills and sent some logging prices skidding to some of the lowest points of the past quarter-century.
The once forested hillside looks like some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland: a cheerful green and white clapboard schoolhouse, surrounded by stumps of trees and piles of charred, dead slash.
At the request of senior House and Senate agriculture committee staff, the U.S. Department of Agriculture today provided a detailed document developed from Administration analysis of impacts to current USDA programs - in the absence of enactment of a new farm bill or an extension of the 2002 farm bill past March 15, 2008.
DailyKos.com, April 24, 2008
With only days left before Congress is expected to finally come to terms on a possible 10-year farm bill, growers gathering for the annual Commodity Classic convention are increasingly uneasy that a final package will fall far short of helping them meet the risks of $200-plus cash rents and $700-per-ton fertilizer bills.
With only days left before Congress is expected to finally come to terms on a possible 10-year farm bill, growers gathering for the annual Commodity Classic convention are increasingly uneasy that a final package will fall far short of helping them meet the risks of $200-plus cash rents and $700-per-ton fertilizer bills.
With only days left before Congress is expected to finally come to terms on a possible 10-year farm bill, growers gathering for the annual Commodity Classic convention are increasingly uneasy that a final package will fall far short of helping them meet the risks of $200-plus cash rents and $700-per-ton fertilizer bills.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (DTN) -- With only days left before Congress is expected to finally come to terms on a possible 10-year farm bill, growers gathering for the annual Commodity Classic convention are increasingly uneasy that a final package will fall far short of helping them meet the risks of $200-plus cash rents and $700-per-ton fertilizer bills.
Policymakers and groups that have sought to reshape farm policy are again calling on Congress to reconsider tax changes to fund the farm bill while also paying direct payments to producers during these times of soaring commodity prices.
A 321 mile oil pipeline is being constructed from Superior to Delavan by Global Pipeline Partners. The pipeline, to be operated by Enbridge Energy Co., will go through 16 counties in the state and is currently under construction in Jefferson County. (JOHN HART/Daily Times)
Construction of a 321 mile oil pipeline through the state of Wisconsin has reached Jefferson County.