Business uncertainty shared by agriculture community: ANZ
Dairy farmers are relieved to be back in the black after a long, tough time but uncertainty in the wider business sector is also felt in the agriculture community, says the country’s biggest rural lender ANZ Bank.
More funding for agriculture needed, New York Farm bureau says
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. >> Increased funding for agriculture might be hard to come by as state lawmakers struggle to close a $4 billion budget gap.
By: Paul Post
Source: The Saratogian
Link: http://www.saratogian.com/general-news/20180124/more-funding-for-agriculture-needed-new-york-farm-bureau-says
What the new tax law means for agriculture
Farm Credit East tax experts explain 17 ag implications of the new tax reform law.
By: Farm Credit East
Source: American Agriculturist
Link: http://www.americanagriculturist.com/farm-policy/what-new-tax-law-means-agriculture
US Secretary of Agriculture takes milk break at King Brothers Dairy
NORTHUMBERLAND — Farmers talked taxes, trade, minimum wage, hemp and the future of farming on Monday as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue visited King Brothers Dairy Farm.
By: ADAM COLVER
Source: The Post-Star
Link: http://poststar.com/news/local/us-secretary-of-agriculture-takes-milk-break-at-king-brothers/article_b03b5d40-73bf-53df-8e0c-157d85f8d99a.html
Patty Edelburg: Keep Wisconsin's agricultural co-op laws intact
As a member of 11 cooperatives throughout Wisconsin, and a former co-op board member, I am concerned about a bill working its way through the Legislature that would change the definition of a cooperative in Wisconsin.
By: Patty Edelburg | Wisconsin dairy farmer
Source: Madison
Link: http://host.madison.com/ct/opinion/column/patty-edelburg-keep-wisconsin-s-agricultural-co-op-laws-intact/article_a274a386-7777-57f3-9b6d-a286fef60bed.html
U.S. NAFTA dairy demands unacceptable: Alberta agriculture minister
Alberta’s agriculture and forestry minister says the latest demands made by the United States during NAFTA negotiations are unacceptable for the dairy industry.
By: CLARE CLANCY
Source: THE CANADIAN PRESS
Link: http://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/u-s-nafta-dairy-demands-unacceptable-alberta-agriculture-minister
South Dakota Department Of Agriculture Recruiting Dairy Processors
South Dakota has gone from a milk deficit to a milk surplus. As a result, state officials and dairy industry representatives were at the World Dairy Expo trying to recruit new processors to the state.
Source: WNAX
Puerto Rico’s Agriculture and Farmers Decimated by Maria
YABUCOA, P.R. — José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him. By: FRANCES ROBLES and LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ
Nebraska State Fair tells the story of livestock, agriculture
Fact: The average cow produces 120 glasses of milk per day.
Fact: Chicks hatch from an egg able to walk, see and feed themselves.
Fact: Over 900 different breeds of cattle have been recorded.
Union agriculture minister unhappy with state of dairy units
DEHRADUN: Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh, who was in Uttarakhand on Saturday, expressed displeasure over failure of dairy unit to present Rs 17 crore Utilisation Certificate to Centre and directed officials to send the UCs on priority.