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Another $14 billion available through Coronavirus Food Assistance Program
Up to an additional $14 billion dollars is available for agricultural producers who continue to face market disruptions and associated costs because of COVID-19.
Sign-up for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP 2) will begin Sept. 21 and run through Dec. 11.
LETTER: Country needs farmers who milk cows, not taxpayers
The “farm bill,” as quoted by Farm and Dairy editor Susan Crowell, is 75 percent not directed to the “farm.” May I venture to say that another 20 percent of that remains is welfare for bankers, lawyers, politicians and multinational corporations. That leaves less than 10 billion dollars to benefit farmers.
GPS: Coming to a farm near you
PLAIN CITY, Ohio – Think Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is only for farmers with thousands of acres, farmers further west in the Corn Belt, or farmers with millions of dollars to finance their operations? Or even strictly for crop farmers? If you said yes, you’d better think again.
PSU expands Butcher Apprenticeship Program
Penn State will expand its Butcher Apprenticeship Program this year after a successful track record of graduates and a boost to local butcher shops.
LETTER: United Local School District levy unnecessary
The United Local School District has received well over $5,004,849 in extra tax dollars in just the past six years. ULSD extra taxes are a one mill levy, a three mill levy, and a 1/2 percent income tax levy. These three “extra taxes” are over and above your regular assessed property taxes.
Is checkoff money being used illegally?
Do you know where your thousands – and on a national scale, hundreds of millions – of federally-mandated, non-refundable checkoff dollars go? It’s a question Bobby King, policy director of Minnesota’s Land Stewardship Project, asked when he viewed advertisements that attacked “anti-livestock activist groups” in the state on Minneapolis’ powerhouse WCCO television station earlier this year.
We love the butterflies, but hate the skunks: Dealing with wildlife in garden
Unless they are decorative and made of plastic or cement, wildlife in the garden can present a challenge.
Cowboy checkoff fight grows: Ag groups blast NCBA effort
Of all the political hot rocks farm groups are juggling now in Washington, D.C. — cap-and-trade, cuts in crop insurance, shrinking farm program budgets — I’ll bet you a cup of coffee you cannot name the issue that recently united ag heavyweights as diverse as the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Farmers Union. That
Ohio wines named best in show
Ohio wines had a good showing at the 2012 Ohio Wine Competition. Seven Ohio wines earned a Best of Show designation.
Let there be light in continuing battle over pork checkoffs
Little wonder, then, why Big Meat hates the Humane Society; it’s shining lights into corners that most in U.S. agriculture, often even USDA, want kept dark.
