Trump to counter failed FDR tariff strategy with $12B ‘Fail Bailout’
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Tuesday unveiled a three-part, $12 billion plan to ease the retaliatory tariffs on U.S. farmers through a mix of payments, purchases and trade promotion efforts. The plan seeks More...
5 Ways to Get Better Crops
When you’re farming, whether animals or crops, it’s always important that you do so in a way that will allow you to harvest safe products. It not, you could end up putting a product out there that causes a salmonella More...
Harry Reid: Nevada supporters of Cliven Bundy are ‘domestic terrorists’
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) claimed on Thursday that armed supporters of rancher Cliven Bundy are “domestic terrorists” and reckless individuals who put their families in danger. Harry Reid says the Senate should More...
Harry Reid says Nevada conflict with Cliven Bundy ‘not over’
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) argued the battle between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the federal government is “not over.” Reid has been accused of being part of a land grab by Chinese backers, which is allegedly More...
Christian Oesch, Swiss cattle farmer, uses smartphones to track when cows are in heat
From the hillsides in Zollikofen, Switzerland comes a unique story of a cattle farmer, cellphones and bizarre text messages. Agricultural Research Services Christian Oesch tends to a herd of dairy cattle, each female More...
Kentucky cattle farmer replaces expensive corn with candy to feed his cattle
As the corn prices escalate, one bizarre substitute is chocolate-laced cattle feed as a cattleman has responded to skyrocketing corn prices by swapping out the corn in his 1,400 cows’ diets for low-grade More...