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Aulner Lake? Months after Flood, High Water Remains for S.D. Farmer

Wendy Royston · Jan 22, 2020

Four months after the 2019 flood, a jon boat can be just as useful as a tractor for Richard Aulner. His South Dakota farm still has vast sections under water. “One inch of rain, and we could be back in the same boat we were in before,” he says.

Letter from Langdon: Corporate Power Means Huge Profits for Big Ag and Bare Bones for Farmers

Richard Oswald · Jan 21, 2020

What do you call four corporations in a basement? Eighty-five percent of the meat market. Sonny Perdue jokes about whiny farmers, but there’s nothing funny about how a few corporations control prices for both consumers and farmers.

Environment

Investments in Climate Action Could Boost Rural Economies, Research Finds

Jan Pytalski · Jan 17, 2020

Researchers believe rural America may be the key to some of the most effective climate change mitigation practices. Among the proposed initiatives are increasing soil health and sequestering carbon, renewable energy and energy efficiency…

Agriculture

State Property-Tax Systems Make Little Sense to Struggling Farmers

April Simpson · Jan 16, 2020

Taxes on farmland bear little to no relationship to productivity and other economic measurements. Farmers in Nebraska, which ranks third in farmland tax revenue nationally, push back.

Agriculture

Letter from Langdon: Recovering from the Flood, His Cup Runs Over

Richard Oswald · Jan 8, 2020

Residents who are trying to rebuild months after the 2019 Missouri floods find themselves between limestone rocks and a hard place. But for the Army Corps, everything went according to plan.

Agriculture

Ag Groups Say Bill Would Improve Conditions for Livestock Producers

Bryce Oates · Dec 17, 2019

Senator Cory Booker, a Democratic candidate for president, has introduced a bill to limit factory-style livestock production, enforce antitrust rules, and prevent foreign meat from being labeled “Made in the USA.”

Agriculture

Agritourism Allows Farms To Diversify and Has Potential Benefits for Rural Communities

Christine Whitt, Sarah A. Low and Anders Van Sandt · Dec 17, 2019

Farm agritourism revenue more than tripled between 2002 and 2017, according to data from the Census of Agriculture.

Agriculture

Debate Continues Over BLM Move as Workers Face Decision Deadline

Kailey Broussard · Dec 16, 2019

WASHINGTON – Bureau of Land Management employees in Washington have until this week to decide whether to accept a transfer out West – a move that some advocates and former bureau managers see as an attempt at “dismantling” the agency.…

Agriculture

A Battle Brews in Rural Wisconsin Over Factory Farms

Leah Douglas · Dec 12, 2019

In Wisconsin, a state where the footprint of agribusiness is growing, the question of how to regulate factory farms is a pressing topic from the town hall to the statehouse.

Agriculture

Commentary: Supplemental Farm Income Programs Not the Answer to Agriculture’s Financial Woes

Harwood D. Schaffer and Daryll E. Ray · Dec 2, 2019

With increases in the number of farm bankruptcy proceedings and suicides among farmers it seems like we have been transported back to the 1980s and the farm crisis.It wasn’t supposed to be this way. At the beginning of this decade we…

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