A controversial wind farm may be coming to Henry and Rush counties – and with it, the potential for $300 million to enter the local economies. The issue has split neighbors and farm communities right down the middle.
Four Ohio farm contractors charged in slave-labor ring
Four farm contractors have been charged in a 15-count federal indictment for operating a slave-labor ring using young immigrant teenagers who were forced to clean chicken coops that housed 10 million chickens on nine central Ohio egg farms.
Indiana BOAH to consider proposed avian health rule
The Indiana Board of Animal Health (BOAH) will have its third quarterly meeting of 2015 on July 9 at 9:30 a.m. And it’s no surprise issues surrounding the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) headline the agenda.
States collaborate to conserve voluntarily for water concerns
An interesting success story is unfolding, in a collaborative approach to addressing water concerns in Lake Erie, said Jason Weller, chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Assoc. (NCBA) and U.S. Cattlemen’s Assoc. (USCA) may disagree on country of origin labeling, but agreed last week on another issue: Fresh beef from cattle raised in Brazil and Argentina should be kept out of the United States, for fear of introducing foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Assoc. (NCBA) and U.S. Cattlemen’s Assoc. (USCA) last week opposed the USDA move toward allowing beef imports from Brazil and Argentina.
