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Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the South and Southeastern parts of the United States on Wednesday. Florida sugar and citrus processors rushed to secure rail cars and equipment that could be crushed, blocked or turned into flying projectiles.
Half of the Environmental Protection Agency's entire workforce can retire with full benefits within the next five years, according to a review of documents The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained Wednesday. Nearly 25 percent of the agency's current workforce can retire today with full benefits, while another 25 percent can retire in the next five years with full benefits, according to the documents, which were part of a wider trove of material released to Reuters and TheDCNF.
DTN/THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER CONFIDENCE INDEX SHOWS FARMER OPTIMISM FADES Sep. 6, 2017 Source: DTN/ The Progressive Farmer news release The post-2016 presidential election bump, which was credited with giving farmers and others in rural America high hopes for the future, appears to be flattening, according to the most recent DTN/The Progressive Farmer Agricultural Confidence Index . The survey, which was conducted in August 2017, shows that while farmers are more optimistic than August 2016, the strong optimism they started the year with is waning.
An 11-4 season-ending win against Portland on Monday, giving the Fisher Cats nine wins over the final 14 games, wasn't enough to prevent the team from posting its worst win total and winning... "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" was the title of an article by George Miller whose premise was that most people can keep a seven-digit number ... (more)
Greg Ibach was nominated Sept. 2 to be the Undersecretary of U.S. Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
An 11-4 season-ending win against Portland on Monday, giving the Fisher Cats nine wins over the final 14 games, wasn't enough to prevent the team from posting its worst win total and winning... "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" was the title of an article by George Miller whose premise was that most people can keep a seven-digit number ... (more)
U.S. farmer net income is forecast to rise this year for the first time since 2013, suggesting a bottom to an agriculture slump that left profit at half of the peak.
Energy expert Myron Ebell served as the Trump administration's head of transition for the Environmental Protection Agency and became the "target" of radical environmental groups' hate campaigns, he told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive interview. He became a focus of protests, with some even even using projectors to shine his name on to the EPA building while chanting, "Stop the Evil Myron Ebell!" He continues to hit back by explaining how the Trump administration is unwinding strangling government red tape, and highlighting the president's efforts to stimulate energy, mining, agriculture, forestry and manufacturing in America again.
WEBVTT KGROUND THAT MAYBENEFIT IOWA.SONNY PERDUE WILL SOON TAKE ONTHE TITLE AS THE NATION'SSECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.IOWA EXPERTS ARE CONCERNED THATTHERE WON'T BE A SINGLEMIDWESTERNER IN TRUMP'S CABINET.>> AN IDEAL SECRETARY OFAGRICULTURE PICK WOULD HAVE BEENSOMEONE FROM THE MIDWEST, WHOUNDERSTANDS MIDWESTERNAGRICULTURE AND RENEWABLE FUELBUT, THEY'RE HOPEFUL THAT PERDUE-- TOMMIE: BUT THEY'RE HOPEFULTHAT PERDUE CAN LIFT UP ASTRUGGLING AG ECONOMY WITH HISTRADE AND FARMING EXPERIENCE.>> HE'S PRO TRADE WHICH ISCRITICAL NOT ONLY TO IOWA PORKPRODUCERS BUT TO THE ENTIRE USINDUSTRY.WE NEED TO KEEP THAT GOING ANDWE THINK HE'S A GOOD SELECTION.WE HOPE HE IS CONFIRMED.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world. Putin, speaking Friday at a meeting with students, said the development of AI raises 'colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict now.'
Field workers bring in the strawberry harvest from one of the fields along San Andreas Road this week. SANTA CRUZ >> Until recently, organic strawberry growers had no choice but to move their crop from field to field to keep a step ahead of crippling soil diseases.
In this file photo, Interstate 69 is covered by floodwaters from Harvey, in Humble, Texas. Just two weeks ago, President Donald Trump rolled back an order by his predecessor that would have made it easier for storm-ravaged communities to use federal emergency aid to rebuild bridges, roads and other construction so they can better withstand future disasters.
University of Hawaii: Sen. Inouye's congressional papers available to the public . "The congressional archival papers of the late Daniel K. Inouye, who served 53 years in Congress, 50 in the U.S. Senate, are now available to the public via the University of Hawai i at Manoa Library Congressional Papers Collection.
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and historic flooding across southeast Texas, Commissioner Adam H. Putnam encourages Floridians to visit FloridaConsumerHelp.com to research charitable organizations before donating money to help those in need. "Our hearts go out to the people of Texas, and I hope that Floridians can respond with the same generosity that our state has received time and time again," Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced new updates to its popular FoodKeeper application that will provide users with new information on food safety recalls. The app has been updated so users can choose to receive automatic notifications when food safety recalls are announced by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Food and Drug Administration .
In this 2015 photo provided by the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council, farmer Howard Jones, chairman of the Idaho Pea and Lentil Commission, inspects his chickpea field near Genesee, Idaho. Changing consumer tastes for healthy high protein food are driving a boom in the demand for crops like chickpeas and lentils and some farmers, faced with the lowest wheat prices in nearly a century, have chosen to plant less wheat and more of these higher profit crops driving them to record production levels this year.
"Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning, happy that her life is better since Donald Trump became president. Sweeney, 60, raises Angus cows and corn on the flat, green farmland of central Iowa.
DiLuigi Foods Inc., a Danvers, Mass. establishment, is recalling approximately 3,448 pounds of chicken breakfast sausage products A- some of which was distributed in Connecticut A- due to misbranding and undeclared allergens.
Guest: Journalist Zachary Roth; Also: Juan Cole responds to listeners; Nat'l Monuments, power grid reviews; Hurricane Harvey vs TX... Trump halts study on mountaintop removal coal mining; NOLA in flood emergency as hurricane brews; VW electrifying iconic minibus; PLUS : CA again makes a liar of Trump...again... 'Where Never is Heard a Discouraging Word, and the Coal Dust Isn't Toxic All Day': 'BradCast' 8/23/17 Guest: Historian, Middle East expert Juan Cole on Trump's Afghanistan 'flip-flop', why the hell we're there & if we'll ever be able to get out... Monsanto pesticide decimating crops; Federal climate advisors not going away easily; Court lets Exxon off hook ; PLUS : Trump's NPS ends plastic bottle ban... This week, PDiddie's collection of political toons mark what could be a seminal point in the Trump Presidency, examining the issue 'on many sides, many sides'... Guest: Political ... (more)