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WIC Funding Cut Off by Government Shutdown

Posted October 4, 2013   Almost 9 million low-income mothers and children receiving benefits under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for...

Farm Bill: Twenty Senators Do Not Support Extension with Direct Payments

Posted October 3, 2013   Twenty senators including Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) wrote a letter to...

Summary and Evolution of U. S. Farm Bill Commodity Titles

Summary and Evolution of U. S. Farm Bill Commodity Titles Brandon Willis National AgLaw Center Graduate Assistant and Doug O’Brien Research...

USDA Will Not Investigate GMO Alfalfa Contamination

Posted September 27, 2013   USDA will not investigate the detection of genetically modified material in a Washington state farmer’s non-GMO...

District Court Ruling Forces EPA Action on “Dead Zone”

Posted September 24, 2013   On Friday, a U.S. District Judge ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has six months...

Judge Rules EPA Can Enforce Nutrient Standards in Chesapeake Bay

Posted September 19, 2013   A federal judge upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to set and enforce nutrient standards in...

EPA and Iowa Reach Agreement on CAFO Oversight

Posted September 17, 2013   The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) have reached an...

Investments in Agricultural Research Yield High Returns

Posted September 10, 2013   Julian Alston, agricultural and resource economics professor at the University of California-Davis, says that investments in...

Federal Court Allows Groups to Intervene in Support of COOL

Posted August 26, 2013 On August 20, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia entered an order granting...

Plaintiffs, EPA Reach Settlement; EPA Not to Seek New CAFO Regulations

Posted August 23, 2013 According to an agreement with the Chesapeake BayFoundation (CBF), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not...

Glossary: Z

Z: Zebra mussel: Can cause severe fouling of municipal drinking water, electric power generation, and industrial water systems; they are also harmful...

Glossary: Y

Y: Yardage: A daily, per-head, feedlot cost, in addition to feed costs, for maintaining cattle at the feedlot. Yarding: The initial movement of logs from the point...

Glossary: V

V: Value of production: Generally as applied to crops, the multiplying of production by the estimated season average price received by producers for that...

Glossary: U

U: U-pick: A form of direct marketing whereby the consumer comes to the farming operation for the purpose of harvesting and purchasing for cash...

Glossary: T

T: T: T-value; soil loss tolerance level T by 2000: The conservation program adopted in some states to meet the soil loss tolerance level, or the T-value, by...

Glossary: S

S: S & D: Special and differential treatment SAA: Shared appreciation agreement Saccharimeter: Instrument used in sugar analysis to measure the amount of rotation...

Glossary: R

R: R: Rainfall-runoff erosivity (factor) R (rainfall-runoff erosivity factor): See Rainfall-runoff erosivity (factor) (R), Revised Universal Soil Loss equation (RUSLE), and Universal Soil Loss Equation...

Glossary: P

P: P: Phosphorus P: Support practice (factor) P & S(A): Packers and Stockyards Administration P & SP: Packers and Stockyards Program P (support practice factor): See Support...

Florida Appellate Court Awards Former Hog Farmer $505,000 Over Confinement Amendment

Posted: July 30, 2013 In terms of farm animal confinement laws, Florida is where it all began, when it passed a...

Glossary: O

O: OAQ: Overall allotment quality Objectionable (foreign) odors (grain): Grain that has a musty (earthy), sour (rancid), or commercially objectionable foreign odor (except for smut or...