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Wanted: New Safety Recruits By: Operation FarmSafe 05/21/2012 @ 12:00am

LaMar Grafft knows that farming is a high-risk business. Grafft, a former farmer, knows it’s easy to underestimate the shadowy danger zone lurking in a farm’s ...

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2012 DCP & ACRE Sign-up ends June 1 By: STEVE JOHNSON 05/14/2012 @ 10:06am

The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) is wrapping up enrollment for the 2012 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program (DCP) and ...

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Interstate Oil Company By: Jeff Aguilar 05/02/2012 @ 1:51am

InterState Oil Company is a diversified fuel and lubricants distributor servicing California from Bakersfield north to ...

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Commodity consensus? By: DANIEL LOOKER 03/21/2012 @ 12:30pm

Major farm groups have been meeting to build consensus before the Senate Agriculture Committee holds its hearing March 21 on a commodity title for the next farm bill.Farm Bureau, National Farmers Union, and 11 ...

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STUDENTS OF AGRICULTURE MAY FIND ABUNDANCE OF SCHOLARSHIPS By: chris sandler 03/16/2012 @ 12:00am

View the full story here: http://www.machinefinder.com/ww/en-US/articles/2036There is no shortage of scholarship money for students who have the desire to pursue a career in agriculture, according ...

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Attacking Ag's Danger Zone By: Operation FarmSafe 03/09/2012 @ 10:50am

Phil Winborn has farmed long enough to earn ag veteran’s benefits. At 66, the Kalona, Iowa, farmer is the beneficiary of phenomenal advances in production and technology that have transformed the ...

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The incredible shrinking farm bill By: DANIEL LOOKER 01/30/2012 @ 4:13pm

The script says in 2012, a presidential election year, a dysfunctional Congress is supposed to write a five-year farm bill in a struggling economy with less money.We saw a preview last fall, when a hurried-up ...

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N.C.'s 10% Campaign reaches $10 million milestone in dollars spent for local food By: NCState University 11/28/2011 @ 12:00am

In roughly 18 months, participants in North Carolina's 10% Campaign have recorded more than $10 million in purchases of locally-produced foods. The 10% Campaign is a statewide effort of the ...

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