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How the spending and tax bill affects agriculture
In addition to tax breaks and tax extensions, the end-of-year spending bill also repeals country of origin labeling.
Sense of urgency as farm bill conference begins
Farm bill conference took years to reach — members hope it doesn’t take years to finish
A House divided: Farm bill is fall guy
Political or dysfunctional. Take your pick for describing the U.S. House of Representatives’ actions when the farm bill came up for a vote on the floor.
2012 farm bill: Cliff walking in clodhoppers
In an almost endless stream of post-vote analyses Jan. 2, Capitol Hill pundits focused mostly on who the political winners and losers were in the Christmas-to-New Year’s Grinch-vs.-Grinch brawl to “save” the nation from a “fiscal cliff.” </p><p>That’s to be expected because it’s a lot more fun to read about sandbox fights between 7-year-olds than
Research turns steel mill waste into bricks
Scientists are reporting successful testing of a new way of using a troublesome byproduct of the global steel industry as raw materials for bricks that can be used in construction projects.
Why would you want to kill a tree?
What is girdling? When I first heard the term a long time ago, I thought it had to do with woman’s clothing apparel. Of course, I learned and I now know that girdling is a forest improvement practice of cutting off a tree’s “blood flow” in order to end the tree’s life. But why? The
Reader: Research drilling before making decisions
Editor: I was disappointed by the interview with Tom Murphy on the Marcellus gas drilling (Agriculture changing as Marcellus Shale drilling gains ground). Today with the media being scrutinized for bias reporting, I would expect Farm and Dairy to do a better job researching a topic before they publish this stuff. There are a lot
Researchers study edible film that kills pathogens
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of food scientists in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has shown that an edible film can be used for wrapping ready-to-eat meat products to deliver a slow release of a naturally occurring antimicrobial agent capable of killing a foodborne pathogen. In the study, which was published in the
Battling compaction: No-till, controlled traffic a key
With compacted soils, farmers could lose 5 percent to 10 percent of their corn or soybean yields.
Grocery bills get a little bit smaller
WASHINGTON — Retail food prices at the supermarket dropped slightly for the second consecutive quarter, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 food items that can be used to prepare a meal was $47.41, down about 5.5 percent or $2.80 from the fourth
