Dairy Farmers Flushing Milk Despite Empty Store Shelves
WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — Many dairy processing plants across Wisconsin have more product than they can handle and that’s
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California Water Wars
A family sued San Luis Obispo in superior court, claiming it has to supply them with enough free water for 30 head of livestock under a deal reached in 1911.
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Fear of Pandemic Creeps Across Rural America
The social distancing rules repeated like a mantra in America’s urban centers, where the coronavirus is spreading exponentially, might seem silly in wide-open places where neighbors live miles apart and working from home means another day branding calves or driving a tractor alone through a field.
Read moreChicken Antitrust
In a federal antitrust complaint, El Pollo Loco accuses Tyson Foods, Koch Meat Co., Sanderson Farms, Perdue Foods, et al. of conspiring to fix the price of chicken.
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Family’s 18-Year Fight With County Over Water Rights Tossed
Sealing a baffling fight over a ditch that involved dead cows, helicopters and a criminal trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that a California county didn’t trample a rural cattle rancher’s civil rights in its curious attempt to sabotage his water rights.
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Virus Chaos Snarls Farm Workers as New Season Buds in Europe
Asparagus grower Henning Hoffheinz is looking at blue skies, a record-early harvest – and a big problem.
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Water Theft a Growing Concern in Increasingly Dry Spain
Inside her greenhouse, Emilia Gomez bends down to see how her strawberries are faring following a difficult season with barely any water after her farm’s illegal well was shut down.
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Study Points to Dangers of Possible New Dust Bowl
In the 1930s, America experienced the Dust Bowl, an environmental and socioeconomic disaster that made matters worse during the Great Depression.
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Wisconsin Justices Uphold Pay for Time Spent Putting on Work Gear
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Thursday that workers cannot negotiate away their right to compensation for time spent putting on and taking off protective gear and walking to and from their workstations.
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California’s Strict Air Quality Rules Help Its Farmers Grow More Food
Despite their lack of popularity with farmers in California’s Central Valley, the Golden State’s strict air pollution regulations have increased productivity for their farms and created greater wealth for them, according to research released Monday.
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Contractor Tied to Mormon Sect Fights $1.1M Wage Order in Child-Labor Case
A Utah labor contractor with ties to a Mormon sect took its challenge of $1.1 million in back wages owed to child laborers as calculated by the U.S. Department of Labor to the 10th Circuit on Wednesday.
Read moreFrankenfoods
The Center for Food Safety brought a federal complaint over the Department of Agriculture’s refusal to prohibit organic certification of soil-free hydroponic operations.
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Greece Fined Over Failure to Combat Water Pollution
Europe’s top court on Thursday ordered Greece to pay $3.8 million for failing to protect its waters from pollution caused by farming.
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Abandoned Cropland Helps Make Europe Cooler
Nature is not concerned with human crops and will reclaim land when it is abandoned. The process has a benefit: Croplands that are no longer tended help cool the planet.
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Meat Trade Group Advances Suit Against California
A United States meat industry trade group says its members are being curtailed by a California anti-animal cruelty law that requires more space to farm animals that are raised for consumption.
Read moreCalifornia Sues Trump Administration Over New Federal Water Rules
California filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration to block new rules that allows farmers to use more water from the state’s largest rivers, citing the rules’ failure to protect endangered fish species.
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Trump Signs Order Diverting More Water to California Farmers
President Donald Trump made good on a campaign promise Wednesday to send more water from Northern California to cities and farmers in the state’s central and southern regions – a move denounced by critics as harmful to endangered species and destined to spur lawsuits on several fronts.
Read moreWashington Sued Over Steelhead Farming in Puget Sound
Environmental and conservation groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife over the agency’s recent decision to allow Cooke Aquaculture to rear farmed steelhead trout in Puget Sound.
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Wisconsin Lawmakers Roll Out Bills to Help Farmers
Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature unveiled a package of seven bills Monday providing relief to the state’s struggling farmers in the form of tax breaks, a boost to agricultural exports and an enhanced partnership with the University of Wisconsin system.
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34K Chickens Die in Farm Fires in North Carolina, Virginia
Investigators think up to 34,000 chickens were killed during two separate poultry farm fires in North Carolina and Virginia within a day of each other.
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