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Jul. 12, 2024 at 2:57 pm CDT

Some dairy farmers are resisting Michigan’s nation-leading efforts to stop the spread of bird flu for fear their incomes will suffer from added costs and hurt rural America.

By P.J. Huffstutter and Leah Douglas, Reuters, Tom Polansek

Jul. 5, 2024 at 10:37 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia – Food is expensive in the rural North. In 2018, a litre of skim milk was worth $1.55 in Winnipeg and $2.23 in a northern Indigenous community with an all-weather road. Without the road, a resident would pay $2.65. It’s the same story for produce. Carrots cost $1.82 […]

By Miranda Leybourne

Jun. 28, 2024 at 11:54 am CDT

Glacier FarmMedia—A Dutch farmer is making liquid fertilizer from cow manure so he can use the nutrients locally instead of moving them around the country. Ton Groot Roessink milks about 200 cows near Baak, using robots, automated feeding and automated manure cleaning. Manure from the farm is put through a […]

By John Greig

Jun. 21, 2024 at 9:17 am CDT

There’s palpable frustration on farms in Europe and it’s spilling from the countryside into political action – and success. The BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) in the Netherlands, also known as the Farmer-Citizen Movement, has in five years grown from grassroots to gaining the largest percentage of votes in the Netherlands provincial elections […]

By John Greig

Jun. 14, 2024 at 10:15 am CDT

Alberta river and reservoir levels remain lower than normal and water availability continues to worry irrigators. Will there be enough water to go around? What happens if there isn’t? Answers can be found in the province’s current Water Act, passed in 1999, which contains the same “first in time, first […]

By Jeff Melchior