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Data shows most American farms are still family farms

By News Desk on December 7, 2016
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After all these years, agriculture in America remains overwhelmingly dominated by family farms. A new report by USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) shows…
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Raw milk’s ‘explosive growth’ comes with costs to the state

By Cookson Beecher on January 12, 2016

“Explosive growth.” That’s how Washington state’s Agriculture Department describes what’s been happening in the raw-milk industry in the past 10 years. 406x250RawMilkThe numbers say it all. There were only six raw-milk dairies in the state…
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2012 Farm Bill Advances Under Pressure Over Healthy Food

By Cookson Beecher on June 18, 2012

If the USDA wants us to “eat healthy” by filling up half of our plates with fruits and vegetables, then why does the Senate’s proposed version of the 2012 Farm Bill continue to pour so…
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Growing Crops with Conservation and Food Safety in Mind

By Alli Condra on March 27, 2012

The subsidy discussion in the United States most often focuses on the impact of subsidizing certain crops, such as corn, wheat and soybeans, through the direct and counter-cyclical payments program to the exclusion of fruits…
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SNAP: the Other Corporate Subsidy in the Farm Bill?

By Michele Simon on February 15, 2012

This week Congress begins hearings on the 2012 farm bill, the massive piece of legislation that gets updated about every five years and undergirds America’s entire food supply, but that few mortals can even understand.

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Letter From The Editor: Last Word

By Dan Flynn on January 8, 2012

Let this be the last word on the Iowa caucuses.

Believe me, no one is happier to have this quadrennial event over.  For years, we’ve seen presidential candidates from both parties go to Iowa and…

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Why Fruits, Vegetables Are Excluded from Farm Subsidies

By Alli Condra on November 9, 2011

There has been a lot of talk recently about federal farm subsidies, including whether the Super Committee is going to cut them to aid in reducing the federal deficit; whether these subsidies are contributing to…
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Ag Subsidies Fund Junk Food, Report Says

By Gretchen Goetz on September 22, 2011

Each year when Americans pay their taxes, part of that money feeds into subsidies for junk food ingredients; and hardly any of it goes toward fresh produce, according to a new report. The U.S. Public…
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Letter From the Editor: Farm Bill 2012

By Dan Flynn on June 19, 2011

There is a zip code in a built up area of Colorado’s Front Range that contains only a post office for renting out boxes.  The last time I checked about 60 of those box-holders had…

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Pistachio Growers Receive $500K Subsidy

By Dan Flynn on November 15, 2009

Pistachio growers are getting $500,000 from the federal government for an industry re-building campaign.

The subsidy is being channeled through the Fresno-based Western Pistachio Association (WPA) for a “re-building effort in light of the recent…

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