Category: Agriculture
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A Crop In Itself
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400807.html?nav=rss_politics">Aid Is a Bumper Crop for Farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In the spring of 2000, Congress decided to do something about its costly and politically driven practice of giving farmers a disaster payment each time a storm damaged their crops.<br />n<br />nThe lawmakers voted to use $8 billion in new taxpayer subsidies to help farmers buy…
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People Need To Think
<a href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006610040332" >'Organic' doesn't mean safer or more nutritious</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>It's a bad moment for believers in the mystical wonders of organic and natural foods. Deadly E. coli bacteria, lurking in spinach from one of the biggest organic farms in America, just killed one woman and hospitalized at least 29 other people with kidney failure.…
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Is This Any Surprise?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/05/news/state/30-feds.txt" >Feds consider grazing ban in fire area</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The thousands of cattle that ordinarily graze on federal and private land south of Big Timber should not be there next year, because they'd be too hard on the land as it rebounds from the big Derby Mountain fire, a federal report says.<br />n<br />nIts…
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Just Goes To Show You
<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NEWS01/609290325/1002" >Rehberg opts out of signing House drought petition</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana's lone congressman is refusing to buck Republican leaders and join with Democrats to force a vote on drought assistance for the nation's farmers and ranchers.<br />n<br />nRep. Dennis Rehberg will not sign the House Democrats' petition that seeks to bring the matter to…
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Calm Them Down
Here is one way to calm down wild cattle.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_poland_cow">Polish woman caught growing marijuana for cow</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Polish woman who grew marijuana to calm the nerves of her cow has been charged with cultivating a narcotic by police in the western town of Lobez.<br />n<br />nThe cow had been "skittish and unruly"…
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Monsanto and GMO Seeds
I found this story interesting. <br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/print/Monsanto%20buys%20Terminator%20seed%20company.htm" >Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’ seeds company</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this…
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Disaster Relief Going Nowhere
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/11/news/state/50-billions.txt" >Billions for drought a tough sell</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Penny Altendorf isn't a farmer, but the ongoing drought is affecting her family nonetheless.<br />n<br />nShe and her husband Richard own an aerial sprayer company, a business that is dependent on the weather in eastern North Dakota where they live. And it's been so dry this…
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Rain’s Value
Shamlessly stolen from <a href="http://www.state.sd.us/doa/secretary/news/Column_174.htm">Larry Gabriel</a>, South Dakota Department of Agriculture<br />n<br />n<font size=5><center>Rains of Confidence</center></font size=5><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A recent headline read, "Rural Confidence Hits Four Year Low." The story was based on a bank's annual survey of Australian farmers. It concluded that drought and rising input costs caused farmers to lose "confidence" that next…
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Wolf Notes
I see there are some ranchers complaining that the state isn't fast enough <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/13/news/state/70-ranchers.txt" title="Billings Gazette Story">killing problem wolves</a>. for their tastes.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>State wildlife officials take too long to authorize the killing of problem wolves, ranchers and others said Friday at a meeting of the agency oversight committee of the Environmental Quality Council.<br…
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Which Is It
So which image do you think California milk producers want you to think of?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.realcaliforniacheese.com/">Real California Cheese Happy Cows</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEAD_LIVESTOCK?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Heat causes pileup of livestock carcasses</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The state's record-setting heat wave has killed thousands of dairy cows and other livestock, leaving farmers with piles of carcasses and creating a backup at…