News
8/11/10 (Wed)
New teacher resources added
North Dakota Farm Bureau's resource page for teachers has a fun new item: The Very Hungry N.D. Caterpillar.
Read Article8/10/10 (Tue)
Harvest hotline now available
The North Dakota Department of Agriculture has announced the Harvest Hotline is once again operational.
Read Article8/09/10 (Mon)
AFBF backs bill to clarify FIFRA permitting requirements
The American Farm Bureau Federation strongly supports a bill introduced Friday by Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) that aims to clarify that additional permits are not required for pesticide application in accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
Read Article8/06/10 (Fri)
Tell Congress your estate tax stories
“I don’t know who gets the first bite of the excess over $1 million, but there will not be enough money left to keep the farm intact. Even if the next generation could hold onto a small piece of the farm after estate taxes, the reduction in economy of scale would make the farm unprofitable.”– Clark Granger, who grows Christmas trees on 50 acres in Maine.
Read Article8/05/10 (Thu)
Members can save at a variety of hotels
North Dakota Farm Bureau members can save on hotels all over the nation through Choice Hotels International and Wyndham Hotel Group.
Read Article8/04/10 (Wed)
NDFB Scholarship winners announced
Ten individuals from around the state have been awarded scholarships through the North Dakota Farm Bureau Foundation.
Read Article8/02/10 (Mon)
Vets in demand; help protect our food supply
An editorial by Nathan Smith - Imagine you’re a rancher. It’s 2 a.m. and a cow giving birth needs professional medical attention. The only problem is that the nearest veterinarian is 100 miles away. For a growing number of livestock producers across the country, this emergency scenario is a harsh reality. America faces a farm animal vet shortage like never before, leaving many farmers and ranchers wondering who they will call the next time their livestock needs emergency care.
Read Article7/30/10 (Fri)
New issue of Focus now online
Chris Chinn isn't from North Dakota, but she is a farmer and she has made it a priority to tell people about how she takes care of the animals on her farm through social media. But, she was flagged and gagged on YouTube recently.
Read Article7/29/10 (Thu)
Record amounts of waste pesticide collected
A record amount of unusable pesticides – 215,594 pounds – were collected and shipped out of North Dakota through Project Safe Send in 2010.
Read Article7/28/10 (Wed)
Bill would help farmers and communities in Bay watershed
The Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act (H.R. 5509) will help farmers while also benefitting communities in the bay’s watershed. The American Farm Bureau Federation is urging the House Agriculture Committee to approve the bill when it comes up for consideration today.
Read Article7/27/10 (Tue)
Fall Route 1000 classes have been scheduled
We know how busy fall gets, so we've scheduled our Route 1000 classes well in advance. Eight classes have been scheduled between November 28 and December 7.
Read Article7/26/10 (Mon)
Kitchen contents bear 'USA' labels
An editorial by Dal Grooms - U.S. manufacturers feel much-maligned by the business press, which consistently points out technology advances and productivity increases in developing markets such as China and India. Yet the National Association of Manufacturers just released a letter it wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives noting, “The United States remains the No. 1 manufacturing economy in the world, producing 21 percent of all manufactured products” in the world.
Read Article7/23/10 (Fri)
"Agvocacy" in Monango
Val Wagner is a wife and mother of four busy boys. She is also a farmer and online "agvocate."
Read Article7/23/10 (Fri)
NDFB urges YES vote on Measure One
North Dakota Farm Bureau is asking North Dakotans to save some of the oil money and vote YES on Measure One.
Read Article7/22/10 (Thu)
Action Alert on Chesapeake Bay bills posted
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works marked up S. 1816, the Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act of 2010. The bill represents an extraordinary expansion of Clean Water Act authority, providing new federal regulatory and enforcement mechanisms that will have a significant impact on agriculture.
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