Tag: Agriculture

Neb. ranchers must report cattle diseases to state

Washington Examiner · February 3, 2014 10:01 am

A new farm bill that could become law as soon as next week would require a choice between different subsidy approaches that require producers to suffer losses before they can get payouts. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Farm bill plows under direct payments, but farmers aren’t complaining

Associated Press · February 1, 2014 5:00 am

Ag chief says Ky. to grow its first legal hemp harvest in decades this year if Congress OKs it

Washington Examiner · January 29, 2014 8:06 pm

Q&A: What’s in the trillion-dollar farm bill?

MARY CLARE JALONICK · January 28, 2014 11:34 pm

Eric Jensen, 37, leaves the federal courthouse in Denver on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, with attorney Forrest Lewis after he and his brother Ryan were sentenced to five years of probation and six months of home detention. The two Colorado cantaloupe farmers who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from a deadly listeria outbreak in 2011 were also ordered to each pay $150,000 in restitution and perform 100 hours of community service.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Farmers get probation in fatal listeria outbreak

Dan Elliott · January 28, 2014 9:07 pm

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Energy and Environment

Supreme Court refuses to hear farmers’ appeal in patent case against Monsanto

Jessica Karmasek · January 24, 2014 5:00 am

Wheat gains on cold weather concern

Steve Rothwell · January 23, 2014 9:33 pm

Wis. farms see near-record $3.75B profit in 2013

M.L. JOHNSON · January 22, 2014 9:03 pm

Bob Mack, right, with the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association talks about the pending farm bill in Congress on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, during a news conference in Sioux Falls, S.D. Joining Mack are Doug Sombke, left, with the South Dakota Farmers Union and U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D. (AP Photo/Carson Walker)

South Dakota waiting on word about farm bill

Washington Examiner · January 22, 2014 5:00 am

Soybeans slump on worries about China orders

The Associated Press · January 21, 2014 10:20 pm

Energy and Environment

Bill: require labeling genetically modified foods

Washington Examiner · January 20, 2014 7:53 pm

Energy and Environment

Farm ministers say world faces ‘immense challenges’ to feed all

Bloomberg News · January 19, 2014 5:00 am