Apr 14 Agriculture Hunger Gains: Budget Cuts Imperil Nutritious Food Aid At a moment when food aid agencies are working to provide healthier food to the poor and the elderly, President Donald Trump has proposed a 21 percent cut in funding for the agriculture programs that support them. It’s a move that advocates say is bad for people who need food and local farmers who provide […] By Mary Meehan Apr 14 Agriculture Hunger Gains: Budget Cuts Imperil Nutritious Food Aid Mary Meehan
Apr 7 Agriculture Free Trade And Food: Farmers Grow Nervous About NAFTA’s Future Farmers in the Ohio Valley are waiting to see how President Trump’s choice to lead the Agriculture Department might affect their fortunes. Concerns over trade have held up a confirmation vote for nominee Sonny Perdue, and trade is also on the minds of regional growers. Farmers here have been big winners under the North American […] By Nicole Erwin Apr 7 Agriculture Free Trade And Food: Farmers Grow Nervous About NAFTA’s Future Nicole Erwin
Jan 20 Agriculture Stopping Superbug: A New Farm Rule Targets Antibiotic Resistance A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control offers a stark example of the declining power of medicine’s most important weapons against infectious disease. The CDC noted that a patient who died at a Nevada hospital last year had an infection that was resistant to 26 different antibiotic treatments. That’s essentially the entire antibiotic arsenal […] By Lisa Gillespie and Nicole Erwin Jan 20 Agriculture Stopping Superbug: A New Farm Rule Targets Antibiotic Resistance Lisa Gillespie and Nicole Erwin
Dec 2 Agriculture Growing Concerns: Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric Sows Anxiety In Agriculture On Nelson Key Road in Murray, Kentucky, lies a 30-acre tobacco farm and there sits the road’s namesake, Nelson Key himself. He’s just at the end of this year’s harvest, which was brought in with the help of migrant workers. “I used American workers up until 1991 then I went to the migrant workers and […] By Nicole Erwin Dec 2 Agriculture Growing Concerns: Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric Sows Anxiety In Agriculture Nicole Erwin
Oct 14 Agriculture Piggy Express: ‘Right To Farm’ Law Shields Giant Hog Operation Mount St. Joseph in Daviess County, Kentucky, may appear calm with the Green River flowing past homes that dot the farmland here. But there is trouble in the air and it comes along with the smell of a large hog farm. Sixty-three year old Jerry O’Bryan was born and raised on a farm in Daviess […] By Nicole Erwin Oct 14 Agriculture Piggy Express: ‘Right To Farm’ Law Shields Giant Hog Operation Nicole Erwin
Sep 16 Agriculture Data Farming: How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Big Ag It’s harvest time and a semi full of corn just pulled onto the scales at Seven Springs Farm in Cadiz, Kentucky. On the scale, the analytics work begins: moisture content, weight, production rates, and more are all recorded. This is just one truck and many more will follow with much more to be stored and […] By Nicole Erwin Sep 16 Agriculture Data Farming: How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Big Ag Nicole Erwin
Aug 19 Agriculture Grazing In The Grass: An Old-Fashioned Idea Holds New Promise For Sustainable Farming On 120 acres in Marion, Kentucky, small-scale farmer Joseph Mast is taking an innovative approach to provide for his growing family of nine. Mast belongs to an Amish community and is reluctant when it comes to media. He makes a concession, however, when the conversation involves sustainable farming. “I’ll talk grass any day,” said Mast. […] By Nicole Erwin Aug 19 Agriculture Grazing In The Grass: An Old-Fashioned Idea Holds New Promise For Sustainable Farming Nicole Erwin
Jul 7 Agriculture Why Did Facebook Block Our Reporting On Hemp? Hey, Mark Zuckerberg, can we talk about hemp? No, really, I’m asking: can we? Because a recent experience with Facebook left the impression that reporting on the plant used in products from soap to rope is taboo. Verboten. The leaf that dare not speak its name. This bit of anti-social media behavior came after […] By Jeff Young Jul 7 Agriculture Why Did Facebook Block Our Reporting On Hemp? Jeff Young
Jun 24 Agriculture High Hopes For Hemp Farmers throughout the Ohio Valley want to revive a crop that was once a staple in the region: hemp. After a ban that lasted more than half a century, the 2014 Farm Bill allowed states to grow hemp in research programs. Growers and processors in Kentucky are aggressively putting that research program to work in […] By Nicole Erwin Jun 24 Agriculture High Hopes For Hemp Nicole Erwin