20 episodes

Agriculture news from an alternative point of view

Farm News & Views Bob Bragg

    • News

Agriculture news from an alternative point of view

    Farm News & Views for the week of May 27, 2024

    Farm News & Views for the week of May 27, 2024

    Hay stocks improve across some of the Four Corners states, mental health resources are available for farmers and ranchers who need help, and a new version of the Farm Bill seems destined to fail in Congress.

    • 3 min
    Farm News & Views for the week of May 20, 2024

    Farm News & Views for the week of May 20, 2024

    Farmers in the upper Midwest hit by a solar storm that affected GPS receivers used to plant spring crops, Americans flower-buying habits generate big business, and agriculture is likely to take another direct hit from tariff increases on Chinese imports.

    • 3 min
    Farm News & Views for the week of May 13, 2024

    Farm News & Views for the week of May 13, 2024

    The controversy over the gray wolf appears to be far from over in the West and in western Colorado, solar energy companies are paying farmers to lease their ground for solar energy production, and some insight into the use of water from the Colorado River for irrigating alfalfa.

    • 3 min
    Farm News & Views for the week of May 6, 2024

    Farm News & Views for the week of May 6, 2024

    H5N1 bird flu continues to be in the headlines, a local Weed Management Workshop will help farmers and landowners deal with undesirable plants, the U.S. Interior Department to install solar panels above irrigation canals in California, Oregon, and Utah, and U.S. cheese remains the least expensive in the world.

    • 4 min
    Farm News & Views for the week of April 29, 2024

    Farm News & Views for the week of April 29, 2024

    Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza continues to cause problems with dairy cattle in the U.S. as the virus spreads, a virus is attacking cacao trees in the West African countries of Ghana and the Ivory Coast, the world has added 398 million harvested acres of feed grains, food grains, and oil seeds during the 21st century, and the EPA reports that while U.S. greenhouse gas emissions increased from 2021 to 2022 by 1.3%, agricultural emissions dropped 1.8%.

    • 4 min
    Farm News & Views for the week of April 22, 2024

    Farm News & Views for the week of April 22, 2024

    The research into how Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is being spread to dairy cows shows a link to cats, the House Agriculture Committee Chair indicates that committee members might be close to finalizing a new farm bill, and some online gardening tips for spring planting.

    • 4 min

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