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EPA Limits Use Of Problematic Herbicide Dicamba
The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to some limits on the use of a controversial herbicide called dicamba, which farmers throughout the region have blamed for crop damage. A change to… Read More
Hog-Tied? NAFTA Talks Have Ohio Valley Pork Producers Nervous
Talks on renegotiating NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, are set for later this month and farm country is concerned about the potential fallout from a trade dispute. Pork… Read More
High Hop(e)s: Craft Brewing Has Farmers Betting On Hops
The acres devoted to growing hops doubled in the U.S. in just the last five years and the trade group Hop Growers of America estimates that 95 percent of that… Read More
Stopping Superbug: A New Farm Rule Targets Antibiotic Resistance
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control offers a stark example of the declining power of medicine’s most important weapons against infectious disease. The CDC noted that a… Read More
Growing Concerns: Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric Sows Anxiety In Agriculture
On Nelson Key Road in Murray, Kentucky, lies a 30-acre tobacco farm and there sits the road’s namesake, Nelson Key himself. He’s just at the end of this year’s harvest,… Read More
Piggy Express: ‘Right To Farm’ Law Shields Giant Hog Operation
Mount St. Joseph in Daviess County, Kentucky, may appear calm with the Green River flowing past homes that dot the farmland here. But there is trouble in the air and… Read More
Data Farming: How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Big Ag
It’s harvest time and a semi full of corn just pulled onto the scales at Seven Springs Farm in Cadiz, Kentucky. On the scale, the analytics work begins: moisture content,… Read More
Grazing In The Grass: An Old-Fashioned Idea Holds New Promise For Sustainable Farming
On 120 acres in Marion, Kentucky, small-scale farmer Joseph Mast is taking an innovative approach to provide for his growing family of nine. Mast belongs to an Amish community and… Read More
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