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Commodity Credit Corporation Releases Lending Rates for June
The USDA Commodity Credit Corporation, which helps stabilize, support and protect farm income and prices, released interest rates for June 2011. The borrowing rate-based charge is 0.250, which is unchanged from May 2011, while the 1996 and subsequent crop year … Continue reading
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Parents Shell Out $400 to Send Kids to Farm Camps
With a plethora of summer camps to chose from, many parents are selecting $460 a week farm camps where kids collect eggs, feed pigs and harvest crops. Shoofly Farm near Seattle is sold out for the summer with 600 kids … Continue reading
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FSA Loan Helps Young Couple Buy a Ranch of Their Dreams
Few couples get the opportunity to do what Shane and Kristi Daniels did. With the help of conservation groups and a Farm Service Agency farm ownership loan and guaranteed farm ownership loan, the 30 year olds were able to purchase … Continue reading
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Purple Traps Set to Monitor, Track Emerald Ash Beetle
Purple-colored boxes are being hung on trees throughout the country to track and monitor the spread of the Emerald Ash Beetle. The “traps” are not meant to catch the beetle, but are part of an $8 million USDA survey to … Continue reading
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Emergency Grazing of CRP Acres Authorized for Texas
In response to drought conditions in Texas, the USDA Farm Service Agency authorized the use of emergency grazing on acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program for 13 additional Texas counties. This authorization brings the total number of counties approved … Continue reading
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Study: Keeping Dairy Cows Outside Year-Round Good for Environment
A well-managed dairy herd kept outdoors year-round left a carbon footprint 6 percent smaller than that of a high-producing dairy herd kept in barns, according to researchers at the USDA Agricultural Research Service. The study used a computer program that … Continue reading
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They’re Back! Stink Bugs Invade Mid-Atlantic Crops
It’s brown, about three-quarters of an inch long and it is feasting its way through the mid-Atlantic. The brown marmorated stink bug is munching through apple orchards in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, causing nearly $37 million in damage, … Continue reading
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Honey Bee Losses Not Major But Cause Concern
Losses from managed honey bee colonies totaled 30 percent nationwide during the 2010/2011 winter, according to a survey conducted by USDA and the Apiary Inspectors of America. But those losses are marginal compared to previous years. During the 2009/2010 winter, … Continue reading
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FSA Youth Loan Borrower at 13, Successful Business Woman at 22
by Cassie Bable, Texas Farm Service Agency Callie Perry shared her love of agriculture with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) eight years ago, at the age of 13, in an article written about her … Continue reading
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FSA Lends Helping Hand to Storm-Ravaged Alabama
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