The government wants, and says it will take, Cory Garrett’s high-value, high-yielding and postcard picturesque farmland. Garrett’s acres rub against a bend of the Rappahannock River in northeast Virginia, the precise spot chosen by county government officials to build a 14-million-gallon per day water intake plant and adjoining pipeline. Garrett’s response to the government’s eminent domain grab? No. Period.
The House of Representatives released its Continuing Resolution text, which includes a one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill, $10 billion in farmer economic aid, $21 billion in ag disaster funding for 2023 and 2024 and year-round E15 sales.
In 1984, Farm Journal’s personal ads connected Pat, a farm girl from Iowa, with Doug, a dairyman from New York, sparking a love story that led to marriage and the fourth generation of Fuller Acres Farm.
Each year, hundreds of boys raised on concrete, along with their dads, arrive at Chris Miller’s row crop and cattle operation for a life lesson in farming, fishing, firearms, woodworking and more.
Several companies have introduced biological technology formulated to blend with a traditional dry bulk fertilizer. This roundup gives details on the growing product category.
