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The number of migrant children in Texas shelters spiked again, reaching a new high under Trump
Texas Tribune | Posted onOctober 25, 2018 in Federal, Rural NewsThe number of unaccompanied minor children held in Texas shelters reached a new high in October, months after the administration of President Donald Trump ended its policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border.There were 5,385 children living at privately run shelters for unaccompanied youth as of Oct. 18, according to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which regulates the federally funded shelters.
Farmers in Hawaii lost $28M because of volcano
Insurance Journal | Posted onOctober 24, 2018 in Agriculture, SARL Members and Alumni NewsA survey of Big Island farmers has found that they suffered nearly $28 million in damages because of the months-long eruption earlier this year of the Kilauea volcano, the Hawaii Tribune Herald reported.
A change to farm bill conservation efforts could spell disaster for the corn belt
Civil Eats | Posted onOctober 24, 2018 in Federal NewsThe Conservation Stewardship Program began as the Conservation Security Program in the 2002 Farm Bill, and its current iteration was first authorized in the 2008 bill. The nation’s leading conservation program by acreage, CSP pays farmers to improve their practices in ways that benefit the air, water, and soil without taking land out of rotation like the Conservation Reserve Program requires them to do.
China wants to stop buying American soybeans entirely
CNN | Posted onOctober 24, 2018 in Federal NewsFirst, Beijing slapped tariffs on American soybeans. Now, it wants to wean its farmers off them altogether. China has been facing a potential soybean shortage after it put a new 25% tariff on importing them from the United States in July, part of the escalating trade war between the two countries.China is the world's biggest buyer of soybeans, using them as a protein-rich feed for livestock such as pigs and chickens. More than a third of its supply comes from the United States.Beijing's solution to get by without US beans?
Chinese-owned pork producer qualifies for money under Trump's farm bailout
Beaumont Enterprise | Posted onOctober 24, 2018 in Agriculture NewsA Chinese-owned pork producer is eligible for federal payments under President Donald Trump's $12 billion farm bailout, a program that was established to help U.S. farmers hurt by Trump's trade war with China. Smithfield Foods, a Virginia-based pork producer acquired in 2013 by a Chinese conglomerate now named WH Group, can apply for federal money under the bailout program created this summer, said Agriculture Department spokesman Carl E. Purvis.JBS, a subsidiary of a Brazilian company by the same name, is also eligible to apply for the federal money.
A week after Hurricane Michael, rural residents feel stranded
Washington Post | Posted onOctober 19, 2018 in Rural NewsChance, was in her Toyota Tundra following the arrows when she thought, “Thank God for the community.” “You think the government would have come out to help us country folk,” she said. “But we are still struggling.”In the week after the catastrophic Hurricane Michael, residents have watched supply trucks and federal emergency officials come through the rural town of Alford, population 400. But most of them did not stop here, where the power is still out, few have clean water and people have been sleeping outside.There are small towns facing similar fates along Michael’s destructive trail.
USDA suspends pork imports from Poland over African swine fever concerns
Agri-Pulse | Posted onOctober 19, 2018 in Agriculture, Federal NewsUSDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has suspended pork imports from Poland over concerns about export protocols in the country as it deals with an outbreak of African swine fever. According to APHIS, a routine review of ongoing operations revealed one Polish facility exporting pork to the U.S.
Grains slide 2 % as exports disappoint
Agriculture.com | Posted onOctober 18, 2018 in Agriculture NewsU.S. soybean futures fell more than 2 percent on Thursday, with the benchmark November contract on track for its largest single-day decline since August, on disappointing weekly export sales and improving U.S. harvest weather, analysts said. Corn and wheat followed the weak tone. November soybeans futures were down 20-1/2 cents at $8.65-1/4 per bushel. CBOT December corn was down 3-3/4 cents at $3.70-1/2 a bushel and December wheat was down 4-3/4 cents at $5.12-3/4 a bushel. Soybeans tumbled after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported export sales of U.S.
Trump Gives Farmers a Jolt of Fuel
Wall Street Journal | Posted onOctober 18, 2018 in Energy NewsPresident Trump’s decision last week to allow the year-round sale of E15 is a promise made and kept to farmers throughout rural America. E15 is shorthand for gasoline blended with 15% ethanol, instead of the more common E10, and was prohibited for sale in the summer by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2011.Biofuels are a part of everyday life in Iowa, the top corn-and ethanol-producing state in the U.S. Ethanol supports more than 43,000 Iowa-based jobs and 350,000 jobs throughout the country, directly and indirectly.
How to protect poultry operations from animal activists
Watt AgNet | Posted onOctober 18, 2018 in Agriculture NewsAnimal rights activist groups have and will continue to go to extremes, doing almost anything in their power to end animal agriculture. In spite of the industry’s commitment to animal welfare, these extremist groups view the agriculture industry as “speciest” if they do not share their same views that animals…