FSA: Farm families accessed more than $24B in loans by end of 2017
The USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) recently announced U.S. farm families had accessed nearly $6 billion in new credit – either directly or guaranteed through commercial lenders – in 2017, which was a near-record year for farm loans.
Feeding Asia's appetite for beef, poultry, eggs with U.S. exports
The United States will again become the biggest source of beef imported by South Korea, and demand for U.S. poultry products is also likely to persist in Korea and throughout Asia, where avian influenza continues pressuring production.
Knowledge, affordability, access are keys to accessing digital technology
Many rural areas don’t have access to broadband internet service, an economic and educational disadvantage to residents – and whole communities – as technology continues to permeate nearly every aspect of daily living.
Get them to the farm: INFB's effort to educate lawmakers
Effort is being made to have all 150 state lawmakers in Indiana, before the year is over, pay a visit to a farm to help make sure decisions on matters involving agriculture are educated.
Perdue meets with Michigan farm groups, unveils website
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue travelled west to east in Michigan last Thursday, touting a new USDA interactive one-stop website for farmers and listening to the concerns of agricultural stakeholders in the state.
CDC resignation, and FDA-USDA joint effort, face new HHS chief
With less than two days on the job, newly appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex M. Azar was forced to accept the sudden resignation of the agency’s chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week, in the midst of questions about tobacco stocks she purchased that posed a potential conflict of interest.
2 wind energy bills die in Indiana House committees, raise issues
Two Indiana House bills that would have regulated wind energy were held up in committee recently, while a proposed wind development project is stirring residents in Cass and Miami counties, similar to projects in east-central Indiana that have previously divided neighbors into pro- and anti-wind farm camps.
