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How much has the opioid crisis cost Ohio?
Akron Beacon Journal | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Rural, SARL Members and Alumni NewsEven before the opioid crisis peaked here in 2016, Ohio was already spending about the same on opioid dependency statewide as it did kindergarten through high school education, according to a recently released study. The enormous price tag in 2015 of opioid dependency in the state was somewhere between $6.6 billion and $8.8 billion. During the same time, the state spent about $8.2 billion on public education, according to the study released by Ohio State University’s C.
State To Invest $12M Into Veterinary College At LIU Post
Oyster Bay Patch | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in SARL Members and Alumni NewsNew York State will invest $12 million to help build the College of Veterinary Medicine at LIU Post in Brookville as part of the state's $72 million investment to support three transformative, economic developments on Long Island, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. The funds will go towards a $40 million project to create a College of Veterinary Medicine at Long Island University to help fill a void in that academic area. There are only 30 schools of veterinary medicine in the United States and just three in the northeast.
It’s been a ‘calving season from hell’
The Western Producer | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Agriculture NewsVeterinarians say many producers across the Prairies experienced higher than normal calf deaths this year, pointing to the long winter, a vitamin shortage and poor forage quality as the main culprits.While prairie- and province-wide data is unavailable, some veterinarians saw calf deaths range anywhere from normal to 10 percent.
Judge: USFWS illegally denied bi-state sage grouse listing
Capital Press | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Agriculture NewsThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acted illegally in 2015 when it denied Endangered Species Act protection for a distinct population of bi-state sage grouse in California and Nevada, a federal judge ruled. U.S.
Partisan Differences Set Tone for Future Farm Legislation
Brownfield Ag News | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Federal NewsA university farm policy specialist says the House defeat of the farm bill may have residual effects on getting farm legislation passed. The future of farm policy depends on lawmakers working together, said Jonathan Coppess, at the University of Illinois.“What’s going on is troubling beyond the defeat of Friday,” Coppess told Brownfield Ag News, referring to the day the U.S.
'False Alarms’ by Seneca Valley virus trigger costly FMD investigations
Pig Health Today | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Agriculture NewsA growing number of Seneca Valley virus (SVV) outbreaks wastes the time and money of people who investigate suspected foreign animal-disease outbreaks, reported Fabio Vannucci, DVM, assistant professor at the University of Minnesota.SVV clinically mimics foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). As a result, an outbreak of SVV must be treated like a foreign animal disease until the government can rule out FMD.The FMD diagnostics take up the time of laboratories, veterinarians and state officials. Because it looks like FMD, it is very scary for the industry and public.
Midstate dairy farmers struggle to find greener pastures
WITF | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Agriculture NewsAlong stretches of farmland on South Lincoln Avenue in Lebanon, you will notice yard signs with bright orange letters that read, "Save Our Local Dairy Farms." Alisha Risser owns one of those farms.Seventeen years ago, Risser and her husband started a contract with Swiss Premium, a brand of the national distributor Dean Foods.
Stop saying farm animals are our friends
Watt Ag Net | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Agriculture NewsWhen the agriculture and food industries depict overly cute and happy images of farm animals, it gives consumers unrealistic visions of how animals for food production should be raised. As the American public increasingly becomes further removed from the farm, expectations of livestock and poultry production increasingly become more unrealistic. However, the agriculture and food industries are partly to blame for those inaccurate perceptions, said Frank Mitloehner, PhD, professor and air quality and extension specialist, University of California-Davis (UC-Davis).
Cargill teams up to save water in beef production
Meatingplace (free registration required) | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Agriculture NewsCargill has teamed with the Nature Conservancy and Nestlé Purina to launch a three-year water project to improve the sustainability of the beef supply chain, the company and the organization said in a joint news release. The project is aimed at reducing the environmental impact of row crop irrigation in Nebraska, as more than 50 percent of water used in U.S.
Implement Dealer Financing and Farm Financial Stress
Farm Doc Daily | Posted onMay 30, 2018 in Agriculture NewsIn a series of recent articles, we show that farmers' use of implement dealer financing has increased substantially since 2003 (farmdoc daily May 9, 2018). Implement dealers currently provide nearly one-third of the agricultural sector's long-term non-real estate debt. We also found that implement dealer financing is more common for smaller farms. Some industry observers have expressed concern that implement dealer financing may lead to increases in financial risk for participating farms.