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AG SEC'Y PERDUE SAYS PLAN TO COMPENSATE FARMERS HURT BY TARIFFS WILL BE ANNOUNCED NEAR LABOR DAY Jul. 2, 2018 Successful Farming reports: Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is giving himself a couple of months - until around Labor Day - before deciding whether to proceed with President Trump's promise of shielding farmers from "China's unfair retaliation." For tactical reasons, Perdue has declined to say how USDA would aid producers or how much it might spend.
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Bryant's home only lost its siding, but his workshop, a truck and bo... . FILE- This June 25, 2018 file photo, Mike Thornburg tries to salvage items from his mother's home after wildfires ravaged the neighborhood in Eastpoint, Fla.
Pakistani residents cool off at a canal during heatwave as temperatures reach 44 degrees Celsius in Karachi on May 30, 2018. CREDIT: RIZWAN TABASSUM / AFP Steep U.S. cuts to global climate funding are taking a toll on developing countries, even as South Asia and other vulnerable regions face looming risks from global warming.
The farm bill is monumental legislation that sets the eating and farming policy in the United States -- including what Americans grow, what Americans know about their dinner and how much the government spends in the process -- for about five years. All eyes will now turn to efforts between the House and Senate to resolve major issues between their respective bills by September 30, the deadline for the expiration of the current law, which was enacted in 2014.
It's an old story by now. The GOP-controlled House takes what used to be a bipartisan, consensus legislative goal-the Farm Bill typically passed every five years-and gives it a savage ideological twist.
With USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service's July 3 deadline to comment on the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law fast approaching, the International Food Information Council Foundation tested reactions to the three bioengineered labeling symbols and two variations of text disclosures. In every combination, levels of concern across a variety of factors increased-often substantially-when a disclosure label was applied.
Rep. Tom Graves today voted for and the House passed the Agriculture and Nutrition Act , legislation setting policy for agriculture and nutrition programs, including work requirements, for the next five years.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed seven bills just before a Monday night deadline, deciding to block Republican proposals to alter early in-person voting and restrict nuisance litigation that neighbors of big livestock operations could file in North Carolina. Faced with acting on nearly four dozen measures on his desk before a 10-day window in the constitution expired at midnight, Cooper signed 32 of the bills.
KANSAS FARMER OUTLINES COSTLY TOLL OF OVERREGULATION AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING Jun. 25, 2018 Source: American Farm Bureau news release America's farmers and ranchers are facing an economic storm. With farm income levels that have been slashed by half since 2013, a continued slump in crop prices and export markets in serious peril, the hit farmers are taking from costly regulations only intensifies the storm, according to Kansas farmer Glenn Brunkow.
Wheat harvesting continued this week across Kentucky including this field in the Mayfield Industrial Park off U.S. 45 just outside the McCracken County line.
Agri Star Meat and Poultry LLC, a Postville, Iowa establishment, is recalling approximately 3,592 pounds of ready-to-eat beef pastrami products due to processing deviations that may have led to underprocessing of products and resulted in inadequate curing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Thursday. The RTE beef pastrami items were produced on April 3 and April 4, 2018.
A government study found that chemicals found in drinking water around the country could pose risks to human health at lower levels than the government currently recognizes, potentially opening the door for more states to begin cleaning up or regulating the chemical. The report released Wednesday by a branch of Health and Human Services examined a category of chemicals commonly called PFAS that have been used to make non-stick products, firefighting foam and water-repellant coatings.
A year from now, The Academy of Moore County will have even more to celebrate than burgeoning enrollment and the 10-year anniversary of its campus on U.S. 15-501 south of Aberdeen. Teachers, parents, students and board members marked the start of construction on a new building, the first major expansion on the Academy's campus, on Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently announced the appointment of Richard Fordyce to serve as administrator of the USDA Farm Service Agency . In his role, Fordyce will provide leadership for FSA and its mission to support agricultural production across America through a network of over 2,100 county and 50 state offices.
The public is invited to comment on the issue of Foods produced using animal cell culture technology. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is holding a public meeting on July 12 to discuss "fake" meat."
More and more farmers are trending toward hydroponics, and the biggest reason is they are getting more bang for their buck. Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture, the method of growing plants without soil, using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent.
The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the 2018 farm bill Thursday, called for a second time after it failed in May. It sets in place more comprehensive work requirements for recipients of federal food assistance. Able-bodied recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, that aren't pregnant or caring for children would need to either work at least 20 hours per week or spend that time in job training.
That question has yet to be decided by regulators, but for the moment it's pitting animal rights advocates and others against cattle ranchers in a war of words. Supporters of the science are embracing "clean meat" to describe meat grown by replicating animal cells.