May 10, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
DES MOINES, Iowa The wet start to the corn planting season is expected to reduce the amount each acre produces this year, but farmers are planting so much of the crop that they’re still likely to bring in a record amount. Continue Reading
April 4, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
The prosperity seen in North Dakota is unmatched anywhere else in the country. As of February, the state’s unemployment rate sat at 3.3 percent. For some Americans, North Dakota is like Israel was to the Jews in the book of Exodus a land flowing with milk and honey. Continue Reading
April 3, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Agriculture will cut the direct payments for all crop farmers by 8.5 percent this year, not just for farmers who would be required to pay back certain other payments, a representative for the USDA’s Farm Service Agency has confirmed. Continue Reading
March 26, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. U.S. officials are expanding a program intended to reduce poverty and improve life in rural areas through better access to federal funding. Continue Reading
March 19, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
Ever wonder if the beef on your dinner plate came from America or from abroad? COOL, or Country of Origin Labeling, could make it easier to trace where meat sold in the U.S. came from if the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposed labeling law is approved because it would require labels on muscle cuts of beef and other meats to specify where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered. Continue Reading
March 7, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest farm numbers report lead one to wonder where all of the farms are going. Continue Reading
March 5, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
WASHINGTON A bipartisan group of senators is backing a bill that makes permanent a more relaxed set of U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition guidelines for students’ breakfasts and lunches in the nation’s schools. Continue Reading
February 27, 2013 in Worthington Daily Globe
USDA meat inspectors possible targets of cutsWORTHINGTON With Congress facing yet another looming deadline this time to avoid sequester and billions of dollars in budget cuts the potential impacts to the public are wide-ranging and far-reaching. Sequestration, if not avoided by tonight’s midnight deadline, would cut approximately $85 billion from the annual federal budget of $3.6 trillion.
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October 28, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Before the end of the year, Congress must agree on a plan to reduce the federal deficit or face drastic, automatic across-the-board cuts to almost all federal programs totaling more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years.
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September 12, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The U.S. Department of Agriculture slightly lowered its forecast for the nation’s drought-damaged corn crop in its monthly report released Wednesday, pegging the average yield per acre at its lowest point since 1995. Continue Reading
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