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WIC Funding Cut Off by Government Shutdown
- October 4, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- October 3, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- October 1, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- September 27, 2013
- Elizabeth
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”
- September 24, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- September 19, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- September 17, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- September 10, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- August 26, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- August 23, 2013
- Elizabeth
Posted August 23, 2013 According to an agreement with the Chesapeake BayFoundation (CBF), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will not...
Glossary: Z
- August 6, 2013
- Elizabeth
Z: Zebra mussel: Can cause severe fouling of municipal drinking water, electric power generation, and industrial water systems; they are also harmful...
Glossary: Y
- August 6, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- August 6, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- August 6, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- August 6, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- August 6, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- August 6, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- August 5, 2013
- Elizabeth
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
- July 30, 2013
- Elizabeth
Posted: July 30, 2013 In terms of farm animal confinement laws, Florida is where it all began, when it passed a...
Glossary: O
- July 25, 2013
- Elizabeth
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...