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Attorneys generals from 25 states, including Florida, Georgia and Alabama, have sued the EPA to block rules to reduce emissions from cars and encourage electric vehicle manufacturing, and the USDA has mandated testing for H5N1 of dairy cattle that cross state lines in a move to protect the livestock industry.
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Triple S, or spring soil sampling, is upon us. Dianna Bagnall, Research Soil Scientist with the Soil Health Institute shares details about what that consists of this spring as far as their work is concerned in the Cotton Belt.
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Riding on the wings of a successful first year, the Cooptastic Conference is back for year two. The conference — designed for backyard poultry owners — will take place March 15 and 16 at the Alabama 4-H Center in Columbiana, Alabama.
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Governors of Georgia and Alabama reach agreement with Corps of Engineers on Chattahoochee River water availability, and American Farm Bureau members play an important role in their communities by serving at the local, state, and national levels.
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Fresh Alabama citrus is ripe for the picking, just in time for holiday merrymaking, and American Farmland Trust announces new “Land Transfer Navigators” program.
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New research from USDA finds that in 2022, 12.8 percent of U.S. households were food insecure at some time during the year.
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American cotton production is down while peanut production is higher, and American farms reported record cash receipts of $555 billion from the sales of all commodities in 2022.
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Corn production in Southern states expected to vary, and U.S. farm income will decline modestly in 2024 and then run at historically high levels in the near term.
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September is National Chicken Month, celebrating the most-consumed meat in the U.S.
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The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (ADAI) is now accepting applications for their annual Century & Heritage (C & H) Farm and Bicentennial Farm programs.
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Representative Dan Newhouse, of Washington and California Rep Zoe Lofgren reintroduced the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, and Chinese scientists discover a new strain of the African Swine Fever.
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The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries is now administering the Black Vulture Depredation Sub-Permit program to protect livestock.
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Libbie Johnson joined the Alabama Peanut Producers Association (APPA) as executive director on June 5.
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32,000 workers were hired directly by farms in the Southeast Region, and the Ocean Shipping Reform Implementation Act is designed to help with slowdowns and other issues at U.S. ports.
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Alabama’s governor signed a bill on Wednesday that is intended to protect land from purchase by hostile nations
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Farmers collectively pay between $3.5 and $4 billion a year out of their own pocket for coverage. What does that look like on a drilled-down basis?
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Lawmakers in Alabama and elsewhere introduce the Feral Swine Eradication Act, and GOP House Appropriations Subcommittee release bill with a lot more cuts than many would like.
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The USDA is reminding farmers and ranchers in the Southeast that there is still time to participate in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, and the Biden Administration is planning to begin year-round sales of E15 fuels in 2024.
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Present and future ag generations were honored at Farm-City Awards in Birmingham, and USDA's National Ag Statistic Services is out with the 2023/24 wheat estimates.