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Industry Ag News 12/8

Agwired

This tool is part of a broader effort by USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) to streamline its processes, improve customer service, and expand credit access. The American Farm Bureau Federation and South Dakota Farm Bureau presented Rep. with AFBF’s Golden Plow award. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)

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Across Farm Country, Fertilizer Pollution Impacts Not Just Health, but Water Costs, Too

Civil Eats

Those tiles, which were first installed in the mid-1800s and have now largely been replaced with plastic pipes, ultimately allowed farmers to grow crops on land that was once too wet to farm. Lee Tesdell is the fifth generation to own his family’s 80-acre farm in Polk County, Iowa. Tesdell’s is 80.

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Uninsured Country: Affordable Health Care Eludes Many Family Farmers and Ranchers

Daily Yonder

Finding adequate, affordable health insurance can be a huge challenge for people who run small, family farms or ranches, said Alana Knudson, director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis. Kenneth McAlister’s family farmland in Electra, Texas. farmers and ranchers across the U.S.