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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Total clean energy jobs across the country now outnumber coal and gas jobs by nearly 1.5 to 1, according to a report from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
Rural hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities provided more than 1.25 million wage and salary jobs in 2011, accounting for 8.5 percent of rural wage and salary employment, says a new USDA report.
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2017 - With President Trump promising to create millions of new jobs, a good chance for his hoped-for surge could be in the renewable energy sector.
Several years of low commodity prices are making life difficult on the farm, and small towns across the country face serious challenges to modernize their infrastructure.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - There is a whale of a lot more needed than a robust farm bill to build the kind of substructure needed to sustain America’s rural and agricultural economy, according to the speakers on a rural infrastructure panel at the Farm Bill Summit sponsored by Agri-Pulse this week in Washington.
There are some twenty million people at risk of starvation, according to the United Nations. It is the world's most severe humanitarian crisis we have faced since 1945.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2017 - During a campaign stop in Iowa last year, then GOP candidate Donald Trump made it very clear that he supported the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). But as president, a number of his key advisors and cabinet members have strong ties to the oil industry. And that has some RFS supporters worried
