Ky. Farm Preservation Program is Dirt Poor Officials Say Pace is Out of Money, With None in Sight for Several Years
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By The Associated Press  The state program to save agricultural land from development is out of money, leaving more than 600 applications from farmers to keep more than 120,000 acres of farm land in limbo.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 9--More than a million tiny blue birds once sang and nested in the tops of Appalachian forests. Now there may be only 500,000 cerulean warblers left.
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Governor Deval Patrick's foreclosure-prevention program, which he unveiled yesterday, has so far failed to win broad support from mortgage lenders.
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Wayne County tobacco farmers are facing the loss of money they had been counting on for this year, an official says. Rick Tharrington, executive director of the Wayne County Farm Service Agency, said that
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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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By Josh Mitchell, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 5--Baltimore County officials say parkland is so scarce in some areas that they're willing to pay premium dollars when it becomes available.
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Ground-breaking on new U.S. homes last  month fell to the slowest pace since 1991 and fewer building  permits were issued than any time since 1993, according to  government data released Thursday that points to a deepening  housing crisis and heightened risk of recession.
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By LIBBY QUAID  WASHINGTON - Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 24--A lot has changed in the eight years since farmland lovers battled a plan to build a water pipeline from Louisville to Lexington and the Urban County Council endorsed a Kentucky River solution.
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Millions of dollars in U.S. aid  intended for Iraqi police training programs may have been lost  because of poor contract oversight, a State Department watchdog  agency said in a report.
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Despite a slight uptick in 2008, federal funding for privately owned land purchases has taken a hit in recent years.
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Long a model for protecting rural areas, the state faces a property-rights backlash.
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The multi-billion-dollar health care programthat helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year.
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October 22, 2004 -- ALBANY - The multibillion-dollar health-care program that helps fund everything from medical colleges to insurance for poor children may run a shortfall by the end of the state fiscal year, Comptroller Alan Hevesi warned yesterday.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--Immigration policies are a bureaucratic mess and getting farm labor for small farmers is next to impossible.
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The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down.
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LOWER payouts and rising on-farm expenses have left dairy farmers predicting minimal growth for the current season, according to an Agriculture Ministry report.