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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, May 05, 2024
In this opinion piece,Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski discusses the need to implement more "climate-smart" conservation practices through a new farm bill and public/private sector collaborations.
Flooding conditions along the Mississippi River, brought on by the warming of massive quantities of snow to hit the Midwest over the winter, are expected to cause issues for inland waterway transportation into next week.
The Biden-Harris Administration plans to increase access to nature for disadvantaged communities through a major infusion of money to state and territory forestry agencies.
Storm damage has ravaged parts of rural America stretching across a wide stretch of the United States over the last week, but area residents say some of the localized damage will not hinder efforts to plant 2023 row crops.
Farmland values are maintaining their strength, and loan volumes are declining, but economic growth in rural parts of the Midwest and northern Plains remains slow, according to Creighton University's Rural Mainstreet Index.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making headway on a major Mississippi River project that will make barge transportation on the river more efficient.
New congressional maps that states have finalized based on the 2020 census will leave at least six members of the House Agriculture Committee facing tough re-election races this fall.
Producers are working to recover from dozens of tornadoes that tore through six different states over the weekend, including one giant storm with up to 206-mile-per-hour winds that ripped apart grain bins, destroyed poultry barns and killed at least 64 people across nine Kentucky counties.
A new report suggests Illinois producers could be faced with mitigation efforts to lessen the impact of climate change, but the authors suggest the findings are also applicable across the Midwest.
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