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Farm News
Farm Headlines from High Plains JournalNational Weather Service website features helpful information for farmers
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:00 GMT
Kansas Severe weather season has already had a profound impact on the 2010 Kansas wheat crop, with hail and straight-line winds flattening fields in northern Kansas in early May and severe thunderstorms and tornadoes racing across the landscape in southern Kansas. Meanwhile, the effects of a Mother's Day weekend cold snap on the wheat crop are still unknown.
USDA sets new standards for federal ground beef purchases
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:00 GMT
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that USDA had completed tough new food safety standards for ground beef purchased by the Agricultural Marketing Service for federal food and nutrition assistance programs including school lunches. "The health of our school children is a top priority at USDA, and today we are moving ahead quickly with plans announced earlier this year to ensure that food provided to nutrition programs is as...
Texas A&M System helping build Peru's ag capacity
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:00 GMT
Texas The Texas A&M System has entered into a three-year cooperative agreement with Peru's primary agricultural institution, the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and its agriculture ministry's Instituto Nacional de Innovacion Agraria, INIA. The agreement will be implemented through Texas A&M University's Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Iowa receives broadband improvement funding
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:00 GMT
Iowa Congressman Leonard Boswell announced that Iowa has received $71.4 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act loans and grants to extend and improve broadband services across the states. "These loans and grants will improve the quality of life for thousands of communities in the state's rural areas," Boswell said.
Farmers defend way of life with Facebook, Twitter
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:00 GMT
When a video of dairy cows being punched and prodded with pitchforks was recently released by an animal rights group, it made the rounds on YouTube and generated the expected angry responses. But it also raised a flurry of outrage from another corner of the Internet: Farmers fought back, blogging, tweeting, uploading their own videos and chatting on Facebook to defend their industry and explain the abuse did not represent their practices. ...
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