Tag: Agriculture

Iowa ranks second in the nation for the $24.9 billion in subsidies its farmers received from 1995 to 2012. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Farming vs. capitalism

Timothy P. Carney · June 11, 2013 4:00 am

Thomas Sowell: Farmers should raise pay if they want more workers

Thomas Sowell · June 10, 2013 4:00 am

Honey bee sperm bank created to save the crucial pollinators

Paul Bedard · June 7, 2013 4:00 am

Iowa ranks second in the nation for the $24.9 billion in subsidies its farmers received from 1995 to 2012. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Farm subsidies going to Iowa GOPers in Congress

Sheena Dooley · June 6, 2013 4:00 am

The Natural Resources Defense Council was right on Alar in 1989 and it still is

Mitchell Bernard · June 2, 2013 4:00 am

NRDC was right on Alar in 1989 and it still is

Mitchell Bernard · June 1, 2013 4:00 am

In this April 23, 2013 photo, North Korean farmers ride in the back of a tractor drawn wagon near Kaesong, North Korea. Farmers in North Korea have confirmed that they have begun carrying out new economic policies designed to boost productivity by giving managers and workers financial incentives. Some foreign analysts say the moves are reminiscent of early reform in China in the late 1970s. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

NKorean farmers planting rice with bonuses in mind

Associated Press · May 31, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Farmer acquitted of producing milk without license

Sean Higgins · May 28, 2013 4:00 am

BBQ warning: Feds find feces, cockroachs, flies littering hog processing plants

Paul Bedard · May 28, 2013 4:00 am

The sugar industry says if we let in more foreign sugar, domestic sugar production might dry up, because prices will drop to points that U.S. growers cannot compete with. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

If we let in too much sugar, we’ll run out of sugar, industry says

Timothy P. Carney · May 23, 2013 4:00 am

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded $19.5 million recently to two institutions to study the effects of weather and climate change on cows. (Photo: Thinkstock.)

Agriculture Department to study how climate change affects cows

Examiner Watchdog Staff · May 20, 2013 4:00 am

Grass is literally going unmowed.

Beltway Confidential

Innovative farmers find solution for ‘labor shortage’: Pay wages high enough to attract laborers

Timothy P. Carney · May 13, 2013 4:00 am