MORGANTOWN – USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Terry Cosby came to town on Tuesday to visit an urban farm and a climate monitoring site. He was joined by local and state members of the NRCS and other USDA agencies. “I just wanted to get out and see some of the things ...
by Anthony Pahnke My mom stood next to my grandfather, both of them crying as he emptied the bulk tank and dumped his milk in protest. It was the 1960s, and dairy farmers in Wisconsin and elsewhere who were members of the National Farmers Organization were destroying their milk to ...
The West Virginia Farmers Market Association, in partnership with the West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition and the USDA Transition to Organic Partnership Program, announces the upcoming Transition to Organic Production (TOPP) In-Person Workshop in Morgantown. TOPP is a component of the ...
by Gene Lyons When the weather gets really awful, as it normally does in January around here, I find myself yearning for the companionship of cows. “Around here” is Arkansas, where my wife and I lived on a cattle farm in Perry County for nine years until her eyesight went bad and ...
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey seems to thoroughly enjoy wasting taxpayer money by jumping on the most frivolous bandwagons. This time around, he’s joined 15 other state attorneys general to urge Congress to pass the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act, ...
by Adam Minter It’s a familiar story: a once-dominant U.S. industry is challenged by low-cost competitors overseas and gradually loses market share. This time, however, the pressured industry isn’t a manufacturer. It’s the American farm. Recent trade data and a new ...