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Conservation is critical to both surviving a drought and recovering from one.

U.S. farmers can be impacted by the worst drought in recent decades and still end up with record farm income for 2012

If we are going to produce that much more food under increasingly difficult and uncertain growing conditions, business as usual will no longer suffice

Sequestration means many things, but what does it mean for agriculture

Planting a cover crop, whether it blankets all the crop acreage or strategic sections of the operation, can provide multiple benefits.

In a nutshell, with the failure of Congress to pass a farm bill prior to the August recess, it appears that it is the Congressional leadership that has failed Agriculture.

During the recent House Agriculture Committee markup and Senate Floor consideration of Farm Bill reauthorization legislation, one of the most contentious issues was not direct payments or other traditional Farm Programs. It was food stamps, now called SNAP.

We need to be sure we’ve done our best to balance competing priorities and help farmers and ranchers be the best possible stewards of their land.

Abraham Lincoln was also the father of the Land grant university system

With the 2012 Farm Bill, farm programs will be changing