The Feed: In the Farm Bill, a Creature From the Black Lagoon?
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You may be surprised to learn that your tax dollars have helped pave the way for the growth of livestock megafarms by paying for manure management.
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By Lew Freedman, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 17--EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- It's a terrible thing when you have a one-track mind, as so many fishermen do. Here I was in northwest Arkansas and all I could think about was hybrid stripers on Beaver Lake.
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I read the March 4 story "Water woes" about Rhode Island's problems with fresh water with great interest. My view on this issue may be oversimplified, but there was no mention of harnessing the state's greatest resource, our proximity to the ocean.
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TULSA -- My late brother-in-law, William McDonald Reed Jr., once lectured me on the Theory of Farm Life as Related to Highway Driving. His talk was occasioned by my hubris.
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Financial results were fierce for this agricultural enabler.
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There is a dissonance between two camps of modern liberal ideology, both of which have had a deep influence on my thinking. On the one hand there is the green ideology that advocates buying locally produced products or growing your own and the general  reduction of energy usage. On the other there is the drop the debt coalition that is attempting to help the developing world drag itself up and become a richer place.   This article is my attempt to resolve their influence on my own beliefs, with regards to philanthropy.
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Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.
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By The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb. 9--U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns was the governor of Nebraska and a farm kid born and bred.
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A lifeÂs work led to the holy grail of fish breeding: bluefin tuna, a delicacy at Japanese restaurants, born and raised in captivity.
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By John Stucke, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 8--A top federal agriculture official speaking at Spokane Ag Expo and the Pacific Northwest Farm Forum said a proposed 2007 Farm Bill from the U.S. Dept.
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By GREG EDWARDS  Every few years, the gaze of Virginia farmers falls beyond the edges of their fields toward Washington, where lawmakers are crafting another farm bill.
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By Michelle Koetters, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 1--LEXINGTON -- Farmers need a "safety net" when it comes to commodity payments, and a congress-man for Central Illinois vows to make the issue his top concern for the 2007 farm bill.   The U.S.
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By JOHN DOBBERSTEIN World Staff Writer  Drought assistance in the federal package for livestock producers will be distributed by Oklahoma agriculture officials.   Oklahoma will get about $6 million from the U.S.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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By Larry Porter, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 25--LINCOLN -- This has not been a good year for fish that live in farm ponds.   Drought conditions have lowered water levels in ponds throughout Nebraska.
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By The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Mar. 4--The Bush administration is proposing an $87.8 billion farm bill that would cut overall agricultural spending, boost funding of conservation programs and reduce the number of wealthy farmers eligible for taxpayer subsidies.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.