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Buttigieg proposes repopulating rural areas with immigrants

08/13/19 4:20 PM By Philip Brasher and Delaney Howell

Pete Buttigieg, making a bid for rural voters in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, proposed Tuesday to repopulate struggling communities by offering special visas to immigrants who agree to move to those towns.

ReConnect Program grant requests exceed available funds by $322 million

06/05/19 6:20 AM By Ben Nuelle

Nearly 1,688 farms and 1,716 rural businesses across 34 states have requested $522 million in grants for USDA Rural Development’s first round of funding for the ReConnect Pilot Program.

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Farm Credit appoints acting CEO

05/22/19 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

The loss of Dallas Tonsager, Corn Refiners Association taps a new COO, Alltech adds four new senior executives, and Ducks Unlimited adds to its public policy team.

FCA Chairman Dallas Tonsager, former USDA undersecretary, dies

05/21/19 9:45 PM By Philip Brasher

Dallas Tonsager, the chairman of the Farm Credit Administration since 2016 who earlier served as an undersecretary for rural development at USDA, died Tuesday. He was 64.

In search of rural economic analysis to gauge SGMA, other impacts

05/08/19 9:19 AM By Brad Hooker

A bill proposing a California version of the USDA's Rural Development agency would devote an economist to studying the impacts of SGMA.

Small dairies see innovation, niche marketing as keys to success

05/01/19 6:26 AM By Fran Howard

The U.S. dairy industry has been contracting and consolidating for decades, but some smaller family farm operations are finding unique ways to survive.

Farm Hand on the Potomac: Harden heads to DMI

05/01/19 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

Harden begins new role with Dairy Management Inc. and USDA's Rural Development appoints new leadership.

Farm Hands on the Potomac West: May 1

04/30/19 3:44 PM By Hannah Pagel

Peck joins Colorado Department of Agriculture and Dairy Management Inc. gains Harden.

USDA investing $122 million to expand and upgrade rural electric systems

03/06/19 6:11 AM By Hannah Pagel

USDA will invest $122 million to expand and upgrade rural electric systems in Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

USDA raises standard for rural broadband projects

12/13/18 4:29 PM By Ben Nuelle

Farms and businesses suffering from insufficient internet connectivity could get some help from a grant and loan program that USDA will launch in the new year with higher service requirements than the department originally proposed.

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Rep. Collin Peterson, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture

This week’s guest on Open Mic is Representative Collin Peterson, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture. The Minnesota Democrat believes agriculture is headed for some “serious tough sledding” and is concerned about whether the 2018 farm safety net will be adequate to protect the industry. He worries that market facilitation payments may undermine future needs for additional price supports. Peterson wants answers from the Environmental Protection Agency about the small refinery waivers that are negatively impacting the ethanol industry and farmers and expresses skepticism about farm support for legislation to address climate change.

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Opinion: What do poor balance sheets, trade wars, Impossible Burgers and trial lawyers have in common?

I’m flat busted. My Missouri corn and soybean farm is bankrupt, financially incompetent, a lousy credit risk, upside down--you pick the financial euphemism for a balance sheet that is downright ugly. I’m still paying my bills on time and eating good, due to some profitable years in the recent past, but any honest appraisal of my farm’s future income and liabilities is dark indeed. Of course, if there is any comfort to be found in shared misery, every other producer of corn and soybeans in the U.S. is in the same position.