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Connecticut Legislature Defends Family Farmers
2014-05-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - America’s pork producers yesterday (8 May) expressed gratitude for the Connecticut General Assembly’s fortitude in standing with local family farmers and defeating legislation that would have banned the use of gestation stalls, a safe and humane form of housing pregnant sows.
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Farmland Not For Farmers
2014-05-05 21:49:00| Beef
Holly Spangler for Beef Producer You may have heard about a little movie called Farmland. You may have even seen it already. read more
Family Farmers Hold Keys to Agriculture in a Warming World
2014-05-02 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The challenge is huge but the solution may be small-very small. Faced with global warming and a population that will swell to nine billion by 2050, a growing number of experts say that the way to feed the masses as climate change makes growing our food more difficult is to focus on family farmers, who often can barely feed themselves. When policymakers in the developed world talk about feeding billions of extra mouths in the decades to come, it's multinational agribusinesses-which operate industrial-size...
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Farmers Must Drive Precision Livestock Farming
2014-05-02 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS – Spending large amounts of money and benefiting the academic community is all well and good but precision livestock farming (PLF) must save farmers money long-term, writes Michael Priestley.
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Farmers: Theres still time to plant corn
2014-05-02 00:22:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Dont panic until mid-May for most of the Corn Belt. Some cold, wet spring days like today, you wonder whether the (corn) seed is better off in the bag or in the field, says Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois Agronomist. Wet soils and cold weather have disrupted corn planting across large parts of the Upper Midwest and all of Iowa. read more
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