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A New York congressman has introduced bipartisan legislation to bring more accountability to federal conservation programs.Republican Congressman John…
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A longtime Vermont official has been appointed by President Donald Trump to direct the Vermont office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued its 2016 Household Food Security report. It finds about 12.3 percent of American households were food…
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A recently released study by a University of Vermont researcher has found that the cost of health care and insurance is a risk to farm viability.The U.S.…
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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Director of the Journalism…
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Massachusetts farmers are national leaders in direct sales to consumers, according to data from the first extensive national survey of local food sales.…
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A branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching a new program that will help protect three rare species of turtles in Vermont, the other New…
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A helicopter will take to the air over farm fields in Massachusetts during the next few weeks as part of a government soil conservation program. The…
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Six Vermont companies will be receiving a total of just over $734,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help add value to the products…
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the first New York senator to sit on the Senate Agriculture Committee in nearly 40 years, has a comprehensive plan to…