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| Premiums for specialty crops may be attracting more farmers |
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| 98th Illinois FFA state convention brings more than 5,000 attendees |
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| Be on the lookout for damaging insects in alfalfa, corn, rose bushes |
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| National FFA officers travel to Japan, visit vegetable, cattle farms |
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Vertical farming: spreading quickly and coming to a community near you
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| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – If you don’t purchase your fruits and vegetables from a local farmers market, chances are those avocados, grapes or tomatoes you have in your refrigerator may have already logged many miles and long hours on some cold storage truck before eventually sitting idly in your local grocery store. That same produce will neither smell nor taste as fresh as fresh-picked produce. |
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| New bill would add 150-mile hauling exemption |
| WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new bill proposed in the U.S. Senate late last month would provide U.S. agricultural producers much-needed flexibility for hauling livestock and perishable commodities. |
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| Eastern Equine Encephalitis shows up in Michigan’s U.P. |
| LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Dept. of Agriculture and Rural Development(MDARD) announced early this month that Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), a deadly mosquito-borne disease, was found in Baraga County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. |
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Ohio ag community fundraiser helps injured farmer
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| OXFORD, Ohio – The ag community takes care of their own. On a gorgeous fall Saturday, 56 tractors headed out from Schwab’s Family Farm Market, in Oxford, for a 30-mile ride to Hueston Woods State Park and back. It was a benefit for Jason Beckner, who was critically injured in a truck/train collision on Aug. 6. |
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Conservation work continues across Mississippi River Basin
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| DES MOINES, Iowa – Conservation work is continuing across the Mississippi River Basin, according to Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig, co-chair of the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Task Force (GMHTF). |
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