U.S. Chips in to Save Farmland: Kane Gets Nearly $1 Million for Efforts
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By William Presecky, Chicago Tribune  May 24--Kane County's farmland protection program is slated to receive about $985,000 more in federal matching funds to buy development rights for about 230 acres of agricultural land in Virgil Township.
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By DIRK LAMMERS SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - President Bush's proposed budget would put a land conservation program that protects some 35 million acres on hold in favor of boosting corn production to meet the growing demand for ethanol.
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By Tom Webb, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Jun. 22--After seven years together, Land O'Lakes and CHS have decided to divide up their $3.7 billion joint venture in agronomy, called Agriliance, the two Minnesota-based farm cooperatives said Thursday.
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Ottawa -- Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell is meeting with his US counterpart today in New York to lobby for an end to the costly mad-cow crisis, which began 15 months ago with the discovery of single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on a ranch
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By Howard Yune, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 24--When Rolf W. Peter bought more 1,765 acres of pasture land in the Colusa County foothills in 1965, the Swiss-born engineer planned to erect a showcase of sports and weekend leisure there.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 15--Gov. Jim Doyle's proposal to provide more funding for a state land purchase program will heap an estimated $1.6 billion in new costs on taxpayers in the next 10 years of the initiative.
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By Larry Carson, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 3--After going without any takers for five years, Howard County's agricultural preservation program has succeeded in enticing three farmers to participate by doubling the maximum per-acre price.
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By Kylene Kiang, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Sep. 17--Besides paying higher production costs than conventional farms,  U.S.
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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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HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania is the first state to preserve more than 3,000 farms through its very successful farmland preservation program, Governor Edward G. Rendell said today.
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By Hank Shaw, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 17--SACRAMENTO -- Farmers in the Delta received nearly $11 million in government subsidies between 2003 and 2005, according to new data from a Washington-based watchdog group.
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G.E. plans to participate in the countryâs âmassive focusâ on energy and will create a fund for infrastructure that could reach $1 billion.
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By Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 10--HUTCHINSON -- Disaster aid for drought-stricken parts of the state, money challenges to the 2007 farm bill, changes to farm policy, and gaining markets for U.S.
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WASHINGTON - Farmers received $2.9 billion in drought and disaster assistance tacked on to a $11.6 billion hurricane relief package that itself was tacked on to a $10 billion bill to fund military construction today.
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The M.T.A., in an effort to raise more than $1 billion, wants to sell or lease many of its 14,000 properties.
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The grass, native to the U.S., gets high marks for energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions in Department of Agriculture test.
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SHELBY, Miss. -- From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers' incomes and invigorate local economies in this poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta.