Michigan winery adding solar installation to power business
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow flipped a switch to symbolically power on the largest solar agribusiness installation at a winery in Michigan late last month.
Indictment charges 2 with selling sick cattle, worthless hay
A federal grand jury has indicted a Cameron, Mo., father and son in a $1 million farm conspiracy to sell sick and old cattle, and a second hay-selling scheme to sell thousands of bales of moldy and poor-quality hay to desperate farmers across 11 states – including Missouri, Illinois and Iowa – during one of the worst Midwest droughts a few years ago.
Michigan’s first avian flu case found in Canada geese
State officials announced last week three goslings were confirmed to have highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), subtype H5N2. The disease was found in free-ranging Canada geese in Macomb County, which borders Detroit on the north side.
Ohio agritourism bill would protect farmers from some suits
Fear of frivolous lawsuits should not prevent farmers from inviting people to visit their farms. That is why Ohio state Rep. Tony Burkley (R-Payne) introduced House Bill 80.
World Pork Expo’s attendees upbeat and hopeful, say vendors
An estimated 20,000 pork producers and other agriculture professionals worldwide passed through the gates of the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines to attend the 2015 World Pork Expo June 3-5.
Skeptics mull climate change, reports at annual conference
Climate change is not the manmade disaster many scientists claim and is not as drastic as described in media, according to speakers at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, D.C., June 11-12.
Department of Energy: Fracking had no impact on drinking water
The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, found no evidence that chemicals or brine water from the gas drilling process moved upward to contaminate drinking water at a site located in western Pennsylvania.
