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A city is trying to use eminent domain to take a farmer’s water supply and give it to a clutch factory. The city of Laurinburg, North Carolina, wants to pay farmer Brian Maynor and his partner $12,000 for three parcels ...

A Wyoming man is facing a $75,000 a day fine from the Environmental Protection Agency because he built a stock pond on his own property. The agency claims private landowner Andrew Johnson violated the Clean Water Act by building the ...

The seemingly endless battle over drinking raw milk may be heading to Canada’s Supreme Court. In what could result in a landmark decision, Ontario farmer Michael Schmidt has decided to appeal a conviction for selling raw milk. “Our plan is ...

A farmer is being fined $1,500 by the US government essentially because her backhoe broke down. The farmer, Debra Dwelly, was slapped with the fine because of events that were far beyond her control. Her “crime”? Leaving horse carcasses on ...

A Virginia property rights bill to thwart government overreach is being heralded by local farmers. The bill is being proposed in reaction to the “pitchfork protests” which occurred last year in Fauquier County, when local grower Martha Boneta was cited ...

Genetically modified alfalfa has been confirmed on a Washington State farm where GMO alfalfa supposedly was not planted, and where the hay farmer did not want such a crop. The Washington Department of Agriculture – the USDA branch — is ...

One of the great benefits of raising your own livestock is control over what the animals are given and how they are raised.  There has been a flurry of new interest in meat and other animal products raised as “organic” ...

February 7, 2012 And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer. God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work ...