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Deere buying $5 billion road improvement business
Ottumawa Courier | Posted onJune 7, 2017 in Agriculture NewsThere’s big growth in a different direction for Deere & Company: But the move, a release from the company states, could help diversify and solidify their business. The manufacturer is buying the Wirtgen Group, a privately-held international company that is the world’s leading manufacturer of road construction equipment, the release from Deere states.The total transaction value is about $5.2 billion.
Why Are People So Obsessed With Getting Raw Milk?
Bon Appetit | Posted onJune 7, 2017 in Food NewsRaw milk is illegal or highly regulated in most of the country. Are the health benefits worth the risks of the underground raw milk market? So what’s the appeal? Is raw milk really worth breaking the law for? It depends who you ask. The Weston A.
McDonald's just mocked America (and made a mess of it)
AOL | Posted onJune 7, 2017 in Food NewsI've just come back from a trip to Europe.Every single European I talked to -- on discovering I live in the US -- wanted to talk about one thing. Well, one person.I tried to offer reassurance, explanation, uplift or even incomprehension when it came to their concerns about my Uncle Samuel. It's still odd, though, what people over there think of people over here.Which leads me, painfully, to McDonald's.
Chicken snuggling: A dangerous trend that must end
Chicago Tribune | Posted onJune 7, 2017 in Agriculture, Rural NewsAmerica has a chicken snuggling problem. That's right, snuggling. Not smuggling. Chicken smuggling is an entirely different — albeit equally despicable — problem that I'll address in a future column.The pressing poultry issue for today is that too many Americans are pressing poultry to their faces, giving pet chickens or adorable, fuzzy chicks a hug or a kiss.The U.S.
Food sovereignty bill passes in Maine House, Senate
Bangor Daily News | Posted onJune 6, 2017 in SARL Members and Alumni NewsA food sovereignty law in Maine moved one step closer to reality after the state House and Senate approved a bill giving towns and communities the authority to enact ordinances regulating local food and water distribution free from state control.
How an experiment turned Canadian farmers into cooking oil kings
Frederick News Post | Posted onJune 6, 2017 in Agriculture, Food NewsIn the heart of Canada's bread basket, a Richardson International Ltd. processing plant stands as a testament to what may be the country's most successful agricultural experiment.Farmers across the Prairie Provinces are planting a record acres of canola, a crop that didn't exist about four decades ago but now is the nation's biggest, sown on more land than spring wheat. Richardson was the first company to market canola oil.
Need for better broadband in rural Minnesota outstrips resources available to provide it
Star Tribune | Posted onJune 6, 2017 in Rural NewsCasey Jelinski was sure it would be easy to run a graphic design company from her new home when she moved with her family to Aitkin County from the Twin Cities area a decade ago. But internet speeds were shockingly slow. Sometimes it took hours to upload files to clients in China and Europe. She’d occasionally drive more than 60 miles to Duluth and check in at a hotel to work.“It never dawned on me that it would be such a detriment to my business,” Jelinski said of inadequate broadband access.
Transparency limited when it comes to conserved private lands
Wisconsin State Farmer | Posted onJune 6, 2017 in NewsAmerican taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned lands. These lands provide public benefits like timber, water quality protection and food.
Connecticut experiments with Cuurt Advocates for abused animals
Custom Wire | Posted onJune 6, 2017 in Rural, SARL Members and Alumni NewsMany states have victim's advocates or child advocates, people in the judicial system who represent those affected by crime or abuse. Now, one state has created legal advocates for abused animals, an experiment being watched across the nation for signs of success. There are eight approved volunteer advocates across Connecticut - seven lawyers and a UConn law professor, working with her students. It's up to a judge to decide whether to appoint one, but they can be requested by prosecutors or defense attorneys.
Corn ethanol faces its limits under EPA fuel mandate
Washington Examiner | Posted onJune 6, 2017 in Energy NewsCorn ethanol has reached its official limit under the Environmental Protection Agency's renewable fuel program, which means other less-developed, low-carbon fuels will have to step up to fill a 21 billion-gallon gap by 2022.Depending on where you stand on the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard, the cap on corn can be a blessing, a challenge or a curse.Under the Renewable Fuel Standard, which was passed by Congress in 2007, refiners must blend 36 billion gallons of biofuels in the nation's gasoline and diesel fuel supply by 2022.