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An Arkansas hospital is working to make sure tens of thousands of kids have enough to eat.
US News and World Report | Posted onSeptember 19, 2018 in Food NewsABOUT 1 IN 6 PEOPLE – and 1 in 4 children – in Arkansas struggled with food insecurity in 2016, helping to make it one of America's hungriest states.Count Sandra Reed and her two teenage children among them."It's hard to live day by day," Reed says. "You have to make sure you can pay bills, and you have to have transportation to get back and forth (to work).
USDA raises US, global year-ending corn stocks estimates for 2018-19 to above market expectations
S & P Global | Posted onSeptember 19, 2018 in Agriculture NewsThe US Department of Agriculture projected Tuesday domestic corn stocks at the end of the 2018-2019 marketing year, which closes August 31, 2019, to be at 1.774 billion bushels (45.062 million mt), down 228 million bushels from its 2017-2018 estimates of 2.002 billion bushels but up 90 million bushels from its prior forecast for the period.USDA's domestic corn stocks estimates for the next marketing year was within the top end of the range of analysts' expectations of 1.477 to 1.785 billion bushels, but above the average analysts' expectations of 1.693 billion bushel, sources said.The incre
Attorneys dispute merits on controversial Iowa pipeline project
The Gazette | Posted onSeptember 19, 2018 in Energy NewsIowa landowners’ constitutional rights were violated when a Texas company used state-approved authority to seize their property to build an underground oil pipeline that had no public use because the interstate project did not service Iowans directly, a lawyer argued. Bill Hanigan, a Des Moines lawyer representing landowners in six counties, asked the Iowa Supreme Court to reverse a district court decision by ruling the state abused its eminent domain “police power” in allowing invalid land takings.
Gas pipeline gets rare rebuke from North Carolina local government
Energy News Network | Posted onSeptember 19, 2018 in Energy NewsWhen Alamance County passed a resolution last week against a proposal to expand the Mountain Valley Pipeline into north central North Carolina, it became the first county in the state to formally voice opposition to an interstate gas pipeline. “We’re plowing new ground,” said Commissioner Bob Byrd after the unanimous vote.
Government group buying helping to spread solar across Minnesota
Energy News Network | Posted onSeptember 19, 2018 in Energy, SARL Members and Alumni NewsThe state of Minnesota and nearly a dozen other government entities will use a collaborative buying approach to build 4 megawatts of on-site solar. Called “Solar Possible,” the initiative used a master contract and a joint request for proposals to select vendors and gather pricing data.
Federal Reserve: Observations on the Ag Economy- August 2018
Illinois Farm Policy News | Posted onSeptember 13, 2018 in Agriculture NewsSince the last report, weekly comparisons indicated lower commodity cash prices for some recently tariffed agriculture exports such as soybeans, and the USDA has announced a financial relief program for affected agriculture producers. Sixth District- Atlanta– “Agriculture conditions across the District continued to be mixed. Drought conditions were little changed from the previous report; most of the District remained drought free although there were reports of abnormally dry conditions in much of Louisiana and in parts of Mississippi and Alabama.
FDA Announces Fees for the Accredited Third-Party Certification Program
FDA | Posted onSeptember 13, 2018 in Federal NewsThe Food and Drug Administration is announcing the user fees for Fiscal Year 2019 for accreditation bodies seeking recognition, as well as annual fees for recognized accreditation bodies and accredited certification bodies participating in the Accredited Third-Party Certification Program.
Tariffs Hit Fruit Growers Hard at Harvest
Growing Produce | Posted onSeptember 13, 2018 in Agriculture NewsRay Norwood, Director of Sales and Marketing for Auvil Fruit Co., told the news outlet the operation had to lower prices and find alternative destinations for the cherries. Auvil Fruit Co. exports about 80% of the operations’ cherries. Apple growers are equally nervous about the harvest season this year, with China imposing stiff tariffs on U.S. goods including fruits and nuts in retaliation to a U.S-imposed tariffs on imported goods from China.Tariffs on 10 fruit and tree nut exports are expected to cost U.S.
Tariffs will cost U.S. dairy farmers $1.5B this year
Capital Press | Posted onSeptember 13, 2018 in Agriculture, Federal NewsA study by Informa Economics found retaliatory tariffs by China and Mexico will reduce U.S. dairy farmer revenue by $1.5 billion in 2018 and $3 billion in 2019 if they remain in place.While U.S. dairy producers appreciate USDA’s plan to purchase dairy products and increase funding to develop foreign markets in its tariff-mitigation strategy, they say the agency’s plan to distribute $127 million in direct payments to dairy producers falls far short of what’s needed.
Bureaucracy could be death of famous porker
Toronto Sun | Posted onSeptember 13, 2018 in Rural NewsEsther the Wonder Pig’s two dads have a new crusade to make all companion animals equal in the eyes to the government.