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The state Task Force to Support Dairy Farms in Maine met for the first time Wednesday to come up with recommendations for how the state might help farms be more profitable.
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More than 110,000 acres of Massachusetts farmland have been converted to other uses in the last couple of decades.
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The institute, its partners and others in the sustainability industry see the practice — dubbed “peecycling” — as a cheap, easy and less-destructive method than synthetic fertilizer.
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Migrant Justice representatives flew to the Netherlands this week to attend the shareholders meeting for Ahold Delhaize, the parent company of Hannaford. They continue to ask that Hannaford join the labor and housing rights program Milk With Dignity.
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The 2024 peach season in western Massachusetts is looking good, farmers say, at least right now. February 2023's subzero temperatures killed off buds on thousands of trees and many orchards reported a total loss for the season.
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Farmworkers, labor advocates and employers, will weigh in Tuesday on a bill crafted by Gov. Janet Mills that would require that agricultural workers be paid $14.15 an hour, the state minimum wage.
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Maine has nearly 7,000 farms remaining, the fewest in at least 25 years, according to the latest U.S. Agricultural Census. The state lost more than 560 farms over a five-year period that ended in 2022.
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Apple farmers testified to lawmakers this year that crop insurance often does not make them whole after extreme weather events. A bill that would provide assistance is up against the “crossover” deadline in the Vermont Statehouse.
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The state says its program, which cost significantly less than other organic certifiers, did not have enough money to keep serving farmers.
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Volatility in global markets and industry consolidation have forced the people who work the land to seek out new business models, and those workers say a 54-year-old land-use statute is stunting the innovation needed to keep the agriculture and wood products sectors alive.