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The program has risen in popularity in recent years, especially in the Midwest, and helped many farmers recover financially after last year's blistering drought. Farm-state lawmakers have argued that crop insurance should be maintained and even ...

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., will introduce an amendment that would repeal the Farmer Assurance Provision,which allows farmers who use biotech seeds to keep planting them even as courts reassess whether the USDA followed protocol when it approved the ...

RALEIGH, N.C.-- A North Carolina tobacco broker will spend 5 1/ 2 years in federal prison and must repay more than $13 million for cheating the federal crop insurance program. Prosecutors say he paid North Carolina and Kentucky farmers and middlemen ...

The effects of the 2005 federal deregulation continue to linger over the Tobacco Growing industry. The initial removal of production quotas and price supports caused revenue and employment to crash; about a third of tobacco farmers exited the ...

For more information on Newsline, contact: Johnna Miller, Director of Media Development, American Farm Bureau Federation johnnam@fb.org Sequestration. We keep hearing about it, but now more than 300,000 farmers will be feeling it directly unless ...

For agriculture development, British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) has given out tractors to farmers as part of its 8th annual British American Tobacco Iseyin Agronomy (BATIA) Farmers Productivity Awards Scheme, as 209 farmers get rewarded. The ...

With a new five-year ag policy funding framework for farmers and agribusiness prepped for launch this spring, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's latest budget largely blew past Canada's farming sector. Flaherty's budget, released Thursday, ...

Winners and losers in the Budget Are you happy? Comment below More Federal Budget coverage Video analysis on #Budget2013 THE Budget has delivered better funding for school kids but little relief for families. People with disabilities and ...

The new head of the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco agency pledged "efficient, effective and fair" regulation of tobacco products Thursday. "You all make a lawful product," Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA's Center For Tobacco Products, told ...