Rural Life
Military aircraft activated for wildfire support
U.S. Northern Command has activated military cargo planes equipped to drop retardant as an intensifying peak wildfire season…
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Trump lawsuit narrows attack on California egg rules
A new lawsuit from the Trump administration is attacking California’s restrictions on farm animal confinement on narrower grounds…
Rural Life
Ag export worries weaken farmer sentiment in June
Farmer sentiment weakened in June, and a major reason appeared to be a cloudy outlook on exports, according…
Rural Life
USDA targets Chinese-owned farmland
The USDA rolled out a plan July 8 to block Chinese investors from buying farmland, calling it a…
Nation
USDA to scale back NEPA’s role in agency actions
The USDA will adopt new regulations on evaluating the environmental effects of grazing and other agency-approved activities, saying…
Rural Life
Senate pulls public land sales from budget bill
A proposal to sell some public lands as part of the U.S. Senate’s version of a budget reconciliation…
Water
NOAA Fisheries weighing ESA protection for Chinook salmon
The National Marine Fisheries Service, or NOAA Fisheries, will determine whether spring-run Chinook salmon in the Pacific Northwest…
Nation
Supreme Court stops universal injunctions, strengthens Trump’s orders
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that district courts can’t issue universal injunctions, ending an increasingly common way for…
Grains & Row Crops
USDA ordered to re-evaluate grasshopper spray program
A federal judge has ordered USDA to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of its grasshopper and Mormon cricket suppression…
Livestock
Senators hear market concentration causes ranchers to drop ‘like flies’
R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard got a sympathetic and bipartisan reaction as he told a Senate committee that beef…
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