Opinion: Obama Is Trying To Buy The Hispanic And Female Vote With Another...
Now that the polls say that President Barack Obama’s poll numbers with women and the Hispanics in the United States aren’t as exceedingly high as they were previously, there is suddenly a new benefit...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Fight Over Soybeans At High Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vernon Hugh Bowman seems comfortable with the old way of doing things, right down to the rotary-dial telephone he said he was using in a conference call with reporters. But the...
View ArticleUSDA Will Not Issue Some Reports Due To Federal Budget Cuts
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s statistical arm said it won’t issue some agricultural reports this year because of automatic federal budget cuts, alarming some in the dairy...
View ArticleAgricultural Leaders Plead With Congress For Immigration Bill With More...
ATWOOD, Mich. — For northern Michigan fruit grower Pat McGuire, the most potent symbol of the immigration debate isn’t grainy television footage showing people slipping furtively across the...
View ArticleAgriculture Secretary: Climate Change Already Hurting American Farmers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate change is already hurting American farmers and rural residents, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday, warning that the U.S. would regret any failure to adapt and...
View ArticleNumber Of US Farms Declines, Farmers Getting Older
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. farms is declining even as the value of their crops and livestock has increased over the past five years, a government census of American agriculture released...
View ArticleNumber Of Young Farmers Rising In New Mexico
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A new government survey shows New Mexico has more farms and ranches than it did five years ago. The U.S. Department of Agriculture survey also shows the state has seen...
View ArticleAgriculture Minister: 40 Percent Of Sierra Leone Farmers Have Abandoned Their...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Financial aid and global coordination are needed to prevent the Ebola health care crisis from becoming a food emergency, agriculture ministers from West African nations at the...
View ArticleHogan Vows to Fight Fertilizer Regulations
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gov.-elect Larry Hogan is vowing to fight fertilizer regulations that critics say would hurt farmers. Hogan, a Republican, said Monday during the Maryland Farm Bureau convention in...
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