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Just when it seemed people were growing more detached from farming, "Generation Yum" delivers a surprise
PR News | Posted onJanuary 9, 2019 in Food NewsYoung people are living up to the "Generation Yum" label coined by author Eve Turow with their connection to the people, places and practices that raise our food—according to new research from Cargill. In its latest Feed4Thought survey, Cargill found that twice as many young respondents (18 – 34) in the U.S. and China reported knowing a livestock or seafood farmer compared to those over 55—with similar trends in Mexicoand France.
Termite-gut microbes extract clean energy from coal
Tech Xplore | Posted onJanuary 9, 2019 in Energy NewsTermites generally don't elicit a whole lot of love. But surprisingly, this wood-eating insect may hold the key to transforming coal—a big polluting chunk of the global energy supply—into cleaner energy for the world, according to University of Delaware researchers. A community of termite-gut microbes converts coal into methane, the chief ingredient in natural gas.
USDA Delays Deadline for Tariff Relief Applications
Ag Web | Posted onJanuary 9, 2019 in Agriculture, Federal NewsUSDA has delayed the deadline for applications for the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments. Farmers had until Jan. 15 to apply for the tariff relief payments, but applications were stopped by the partial government shutdown when Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices closed December 28. USDA will resume taking applications for MFP when the government shutdown ends. The deadline will extend for as many days as FSA offices are closed by the ongoing shutdown. The May 1 deadline for submitting 2018 production has not been changed according to a USDA spokesman.
Only half of Americans who think they have food allergies actually do
The Takeout | Posted onJanuary 9, 2019 in Food NewsAbout one in five Americans think they have a food allergy, while the actual prevalence of food allergies is closer to one in 10. That’s the major finding of a new large-scale study published in the JAMA Network Open and led by Dr. Ruchi Gupta from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University. Gupta’s survey of more than 40,000 American adults found that while nearly 19 percent believe they’re food allergic, only about 10.8 percent, or 26 million Americans, were food allergic at the time of the study.
Farming needs a new policy direction
Western Producer | Posted onJanuary 9, 2019 in Agriculture NewsCanadian dairy farmers have been deprived of 3.5 percent of our dairy market to European cheese under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union, 3.5 percent more to Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership countries, and under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, dairy farmers will lose an additional 3.9 percent of Canada’s market. The USMCA also removes our dairy sector’s ability to counter the U.S.
Coal mines closing despite Trump's promises
WTHI-TV | Posted onJanuary 9, 2019 in Energy NewsIt sits on the banks of the Monongahela River like a monstrous monument to extinction. With no fire in its belly and no smoke in its stacks, the rusting power plant provides only one sign of its former inhabitants, scribbled on a white board in a padlocked guard booth."RIP Mitchell," the handwriting reads.
Trump Administration Works Overtime to Make Sure Shutdown Doesn’t Stop Oil Drilling
Bloomberg | Posted onJanuary 9, 2019 in Energy NewsThe partial U.S. government shutdown has docked fishing boats in Alaska, delayed public meetings on a proposed wind farm off the Massachusetts coast and blocked pharmaceutical companies from seeking approval for new drugs. But the Trump administration is working overtime to make sure the shutdown doesn’t halt oil drilling too -- in ways critics say may flout federal law.“One of the principles of government is that you serve everybody equally,” but that’s not what’s happening here, said Matt Lee-Ashley, a former deputy chief of staff at the Interior Department.
High court rejects animal cases
DTN | Posted onJanuary 8, 2019 in Agriculture NewsThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied attempts to make oral arguments before the court by 15 states in lawsuits against California and Massachusetts over claims of regulating agricultural production across state lines. Without commentary, the Supreme Court denied a pair of court cases, including Missouri and 12 other states versus California.
US-China: farmers count the cost of the trade war
Financial Times | Posted onJanuary 8, 2019 in Agriculture NewsThe final 230 miles of the Mississippi river have long reinforced American might in global food markets. Ten grain terminals tower like fortresses along its bends, receiving crops from upstream farms, banking them in concrete silos and sending them over the levees into the holds of foreign ships. Together they can export 500,000 tonnes a day. Yet this year the autumn high season never came. The amount of grain and oilseeds moving through Mississippi river ports has dropped by 9 per cent since the autumn of 2017, according to the Federal Grain Inspection Service.
New York:New law boosts top speed for slow-moving vehicles to 35 mph
Herald Courier | Posted onJanuary 8, 2019 in Agriculture, SARL Members and Alumni NewsFarm tractors and other slow-moving vehicles will be allowed to travel a little faster on New York roads under a new law. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation that raises the speed at which slow-moving vehicles can travel from 25 mph to 35 mph. Farm vehicles and construction equipment must have orange triangular signs indicating that they are slow-moving vehicles.