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Trade war costs will be more than taxpayer money

1 week ago | farmanddairy.com | Alan Guebert

The Trump administration may grant U.S. agriculture special exemptions from parts of its ever-changing tariff regime, but it can’t exempt it from everyday economic reality. That mainstay of farming — with or without ever-changing White House trade policies — will keep the 2025 American ag economy on its heels, say the farm income specialists in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Tariffs will only make USDA’s bleak income forecast worse.
Now is the time to assess spring pastures for damage

1 week ago | farmanddairy.com | Ed Brown

As the first days of spring arrive, thoughts naturally turn to pastures and forages. Following last year’s drought, we are beginning to see the initial growth of our pastures, making it the perfect time to assess any lingering damage from the previous season. Taking a simple walk across your pasture can provide valuable insight into its condition. Here’s an easy method to evaluate your fields:Take 10 steps and observe what is directly in front of your toe. If you see bare ground, make a note of it.
USDA cancels Climate-Smart Commodities program

1 week ago | farmanddairy.com | Paul Rowley

WASHINGTON — The curtain is coming down on another Biden-era program that funded projects across the country aimed at reducing the environmental impact of farming. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced on April 14 the cancellation of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, a program that incentivized farmers to adopt climate-smart practices and mitigate the environmental impact of farming. The funds came from President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
OSU researchers look into West Nile virus cycle

2 weeks ago | farmanddairy.com | Emily Caldwell

By Emily CaldwellOhio State NewsCOLUMBUS — Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States for over 25 years, but we still don’t know precisely how the virus cycles through these pests and the other animals they bite. A federally funded project aims to help pin down the process by using mathematical models to analyze how factors like temperature, light pollution and bird and mosquito abundance affect West Nile virus transmission.
The rural version of the Golden Rule

2 weeks ago | farmanddairy.com | Alan Guebert

Family lore has it that sometime in the pre-refrigeration days of the late 19th century, my forefathers dug a small cave into a steep hillside on their adjacent farms to store several barrels of home-brewed beer. Like the family’s suds, the cave was cool, dark and prized. This being southern Illinois, however, a minor earthquake one day sent the roof of the underground rathskeller onto the barrels of beer, and soon their hoppy contents were flowing into the nearby creek.
Game face - Farm and Dairy

2 weeks ago | farmanddairy.com | Kymberly Foster Seabolt

Sometimes, you just have to give up the dream. I know that now. It’s important to admit your shortcomings. To know who you are as a person, as a people really. For me that day came when I gave up on board games. It was a hard loss. Past. I grew up on board games. It sounds so iconic, but I swear it really happened. Holidays and Sunday dinners at my grandma’s, the entire extended family would gather around Scrabble or that 1980s fave, Trivial Pursuit.
Farmers, food banks reel as federal funding disappears

2 weeks ago | farmanddairy.com | Paul Rowley

RUSHVILLE, Ohio — When Gina Orr and her family joined Ohio’s Community + Agriculture + Nutrition (CAN) program in 2023, it felt like a natural fit. The family-run operation, FreshOrr Family Farms, has long been passionate about sustainable farming. Through CAN, they found an avenue to use that passion to support neighbors in need, providing hundreds of pasture-raised chickens for local food banks.
How to prepare your farm for natural disaster

2 weeks ago | farmanddairy.com | Rachel Wagoner

Warming spring weather brings relief from the biting cold of winter, but it also marks the start of severe weather season in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. At our farm, we’re used to securing the barn doors before a big thunderstorm and checking the fenceline for downed trees afterward. It floods occasionally here, and we’re no strangers to hunkering down to ride out a cold snap or a winter storm. But I think a lot about what we would do if another natural disaster struck our farm.
Medicaid cuts could potentially hit rural America hard

3 weeks ago | farmanddairy.com | Alan Guebert

Medicaid looks to be one of the big corks Congress hopes will help plug an estimated $4.7 trillion flood of red ink that accompanies tax cuts Republicans plan to pass this spring. They’re going to need a big one.
Trouble is brewing for farmers as funding freeze continues

3 weeks ago | farmanddairy.com | Paul Rowley

FRESNO, Ohio — Last April, Wooly Pig Farm Brewery received $143,000 through the Rural Energy for America Program to purchase and install a 99.91-kilowatt ground-mounted solar array — enough electricity to power nine homes — enabling owners Jael Malenke and Kevin Ely to make beer using the power of sunlight.