Livestock farming articles
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Farm bill not on the docket, Grassley advocates for “more farm in farm bill”
WASHINGTON — After more than six months of budget showdowns, lawmakers have yet to move forward with a farm bill. Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said a one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill is likely while lawmakers continue to negotiate a bipartisan bill to reauthorize hundreds of federal grants and programs aimed at farming.
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It's a wild life on the farm
Ann Bailey shares about some of the winged and four-legged creatures that are permanent and seasonal residents of her farmstead.
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Reading Animal Farm in Zimbabwe
I began to notice Animal Farm references proliferating in Zimbabwe in 2008. That was the year hyperinflation nosedived the economy, and long-time leader Robert Mugabe felt threatened enough by a newly formed opposition party that he silenced its supporters. In the years since, writers and independent media have repeatedly turned to Animal Farm as a way to illuminate our political reality—even after Mugabe’s 2017 ousting. Last year, a group of Zimbabwean writers published the first-ever Shona...