farm bureau
Posted Aug 9, 2021, 9:16 am
B. Poole
/Courthouse News
Seven states from Utah to California share the Colorado River’s roughly 15 million acre-feet of water annually, but in the 100 years since the states agreed how to share the water, it has become clear that the river is over-allocated.
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Posted Oct 1, 2019, 9:57 am
Amanda Pampuro
/Courthouse News Service
In 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 764,207 acres of land in Arizona and the southwest corner of New Mexico as critical habitat for a jaguar population concentrated 130 miles south in Mexico, but the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau argued before the 10th Circuit last Wednesday that land designated in the state for the predators isn’t essential to their conservation.... Read more»
Posted Jun 14, 2019, 10:15 am
Miranda Faulkner
/Cronkite News
Pima County Supervisor Richard Elias told federal lawmakers that a plan to limit the so-called Waters of the United States rule would end up eliminating clean-water protections for “rivers like the Santa Cruz, the Salt, the Gila.”... Read more»
Posted Aug 24, 2017, 11:06 am
Adrienne St. Clair
/Cronkite News
One day after President Donald Trump’s prediction that the U.S. could “end up terminating NAFTA at some point,” business and political leaders expressed hope Wednesday that negotiations on a new deal will still be allowed to play out.... Read more»
Updated Jul 8, 2014, 10:04 am
Julianne Logan
/Cronkite News Service
A swine virus that has already caused a nationwide hog shortage has turned up in Arizona, where one farm official worries it could have “catastrophic effects on the pork buying and producing industry.” The virus is harmless to humans, but the mortality rate for infected piglets has been at least 50 percent.... Read more»
Posted Feb 12, 2014, 4:27 pm
Craig Gurian
/Remapping Debate
A study released earlier this week by the American Farm Bureau Federation on the impact of various types of immigration reform on the agricultural sector wants the reader to conclude that an enforcement-only approach to immigration would mean economic disaster. But the agricultural industry only survives in its current form thanks to massive (albeit invisible) subsidy from a work force that cannot be described as free,... Read more»
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Posted Dec 30, 2012, 12:04 am
Jennifer Mattson
/Global Post
Milk prices could double if Congress does not pass the new farm bill by January 1. ... Read more»