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2002 Archive
- Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program grows with Farmstead System, CAFO permit plan
- Plenty of toy tractors still available for FFA fund-raiser
- MFB, GreenStone offer conference to teach producers how to 'manage today' to be around 'tomorrow'
- Wildlife policy debate sends signal
- MFB members adopt policy on issues ranging from agricultural water use to pollution prevention
- MFB Harvest Gathering nets 12,892 pounds of food for Michigan Ronald McDonald Houses
- Michigan Farm Bureau fills state board, elects leadership
- MFB presents its premier Distinguished Service to Agriculture award to MSU animal science leader
- MFB hopeful that public comment on proposed CAFO permit will move plan closer to adoption
- American Farm Bureau survey to reveal average cost to prepare a Thanksgiving Day meal for 10
- Michigan farmers embrace electronic livestock ID program
- Policy debate, workshops, awards take center stage at Michigan Farm Bureau 83rd Annual Meeting
- MFB will support state plan to permit large livestock farms with documented environmental problems
- Criteria proposed to purchase farmland development rights
- Young Farmer award finalists gear up for annual contests
- Water rights, farm bill conservation programs on tap for upcoming Farm Bureau educational workshops
- Farm Bureau to vote on policies for water use, zoonotic disease prevention, conservation support, more
- Increased cases of emerging animal-human diseases make funding new diagnostic center essential
- Farm Bureau pumped up about opening of ethanol plant
- Posthumus is right choice for agriculture
- Proposal 4 sets bad precedent, lacks accountability
- County Farm Bureaus get creative to collect food for Michigan Farm Bureau's Harvest Gathering
- 2002 harvest season has pluses, minuses but is improvement over last year
- Web site reconnects past, present Michigan FFA members
- MFB urges Congress to pass energy, crop disaster legislation before fall recess
- Court decision closes loophole that allowed Michigan company to circumvent sugar import laws
- Michigan dry bean industry signs deal to sell to Cuba
- Tractor Supply Company gears up for FFA toy tractor fund-raiser with special Michigan FFA/4-H promotion
- Michigan Farmland and Community Alliance to use $90,000 grant to study preferences for housing density
- Groups return from Havana optimistic about potential to sell Michigan agricultural goods to Cuba
- Michigan Farm Bureau membership hits all-time high
- Michigan included in drought aid for livestock producers
- Michigan FFA seeks to reconnect with past members
- MFB AgriPac makes endorsements for 2002 general election
- China Study Tour Photos
- Farmers leave China with expert's message - Changing demographics give U.S. ag opportunities abroad
- Michigan farmers doing what's right for environment seek ways to gain public assurance
- MSU research lab theft prompts pork producers to be on guard against deadly hog bacteria
- Michigan food, ag industry will benefit from funding for value-added agricultural development projects
- Chinese apple industry poised for continued growth
- High-Tech Demonstration Zone helps modernize Chinese agriculture
- China's hog production system impresses tour group
- Farm Bureau members to lobby in D.C. for aid to help recover from two years of weather-related crop losses
- Chinese ag responds to structural, technological changes
- Retail food prices continue slide in third quarter
- West Nile virus vaccine encouraged for Michigan horses
- Keystone Project has groups share land use concerns, ideas
- Miracle of Life Web cam 'hits' explode in Week 2 of State Fair
- Proposal A 'tweaking' would harm Michigan agriculture
- MFB creates department to expand on issues related to environment, Right-to-Farm Act, more
- Farm Bureau again looks to Cuba as potential sales market
- Participant list released for September China study tour
- MDA makes federal application for split-state TB status
- Oct. 1 kicks off sign-up for farm bill commodity programs
- Tariff does not stop plans to sell Michigan apples to Mexico
- Conservation tillage, seed technology focus of field day
- FY02 funding for Michigan EQIP to total more than $6 million thanks to latest USDA allocation
- 2002 county Farm Bureau annual meeting season kicks off
- Miracle of Life exhibits expanded for upcoming state fairs
- Michigan FFA Foundation contributes $61,000 towards agricultural education through annual grant program
- WTO proposal and TPA advancements positive for agriculture
- USDA works to keep deer away from feed storages, reduce TB transmission through pilot fencing project
- USDA declares 50 counties as agricultural disasters due to fruit, vegetable losses from spring weather
- MFB says controls needed to combat Emerald Ash Borer
- Farm Bureau land use, farmland groups hail farmland preservation work of Macomb County Commissioners
- Michigan FFA Foundation aims to boost giving at third annual FFA Masters golf scramble
- Deputy ag secretary to be at MFB's Ag Expo exhibit Tuesday
- Additional $3 million lacking for new Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory at MSU
- Rep. Ron Jelinek receives Michigan Farm Bureau's Silver Plow Award for helping farmers hurt by weather
- Michigan Farmland and Community Alliance fund-raiser reflects broad interest in farmland preservation
- 2002 farm income estimates signal 7- and 8-year lows
- Farm Bureau supports Homeland Security Dept. but warns against splitting APHIS functions from USDA
- NRC order to limit deer baiting to two gallons is 'progress' towards statewide ban, MFB says
- AFBF survey food prices drop in second quarter
- Ag Commission moves on developing water-use GAAMP
- AFBF responds to Senate's failure to permanently kill the estate tax saying, 'farm families will pay for this mistake'
- MFB supports Engler's request for aid to help fruit, veggie growers in counties with weather-related crop losses
- MFB Young People's Citizenship Seminar gives students out-of-classroom education on U.S. democracy
- Michigan farmers to tour China for ag trade opportunities
- Jackson County testing USDA electronic farm bill program
- USDA announces Homeland Security funding for rapid detection and diagnostic of potential disease threats
- National Dairy Market Loss Payment Program paves way for bright dairy future
- FB applauds Senate passage of Trade Promotion Authority
- U.S. Senate to consider permanent estate tax repeal
- Weather assault on fruit development continues; frosty temps slow asparagus harvest
- Farm Bureau calls proposal to eliminate MDA 'alarming'
- Michigan asparagus processors awarded USDA contracts for 6.1 million pounds of frozen, canned asparagus
- Agriculture's role in renewable fuels expected to accelerate
- Michigan raised turkey headed to Cuba
- MFB officials, legislators hope apples are just the beginning of increased trade with Mexico
- Spring planting gets under way between raindrops
- Michigan Farmland and Community Alliance launches membership campaign to save farmland, open space
- Dick Posthumus receives Michigan Farm Bureau endorsement for 2002 governor's race
- Farm Bureau leaders tout first environmentally assured MAEAP farms as role models
- USDA official visits northeast Michigan to learn about local proposal to redraw TB Surveillance Zone
- Deal struck to sell Michigan apples to Mexico
- Ag Commission will have task force review water issues
- Farmers ready to spring into another crop year
- Michigan Farm Bureau president testifies on Capitol Hill against Russia's ban of U.S. poultry
- Lenders see strong demand for zero-interest ag loans
- Michigan agriculture loses trade opportunity as visas revoked for Cuban importers scheduled to tour state
- Asparagus growers pledge unity to fight unfair foreign imports, anti-bargaining tactics on home soil
- Tractor Supply Company will stock FFA collector tractor
- Profitability, access to farmland continue to top list of concerns for Michigan Young Farmers
- Agricultural Heritage collector's license plate is option for farm vehicle owners wanting to support ag education
- Legislation governing groundwater withdrawal is all wet
- Michigan Farm Bureau policy urges study of State Fair
- MSU Extension, Agricultural Experiment Station cuts come at poor time for agriculture, Farm Bureau says
- Retail food prices climb while farmer's share of U.S. food dollar drops, Farm Bureau national survey finds
- Farm bill proposal facing March 22 deadline
- Americans would control their own tax destinies if 'revolutionary' Fair Tax replaced federal income tax
- U.S. Department of Energy plugged into on-farm opportunities for renewable energy, official says
- National Ag Week honors stewards of the land
- MFB members will lobby on farm bill, energy policy, tax reform during Washington Legislative Seminar
- Management of zero-interest ag loans being finalized
- Michigan Farm Bureau awarded $5,000 grant to help spur sales of state-grown commodities to Cuba
- MFB victory
- Lt. governor signs bill creating zero-interest loans for farmers with 2001 weather-related crop losses
- AFBF lists priorities for farm bill conference report
- Amended bill for five-year zero-interest ag loan program continues through Senate, House with broad support
- Farm Bureau members to talk water rights, state appropriations, grain seller protection with legislators
- USDA Wildlife Services Program to assist in TB eradication efforts
- Zero-interest agricultural loans bill heads to state Senate
- Senate vote on ag loan program to shape Michigan's 2002 crop year
- Farm Bureau supports governor's proposal to boost per-pupil funding beginning fiscal year 2003
- Farm bill differences can be negotiated now that Senate has passed its version, MFB says
- Make ag issues simple to digest for your audience & easy on reporters
- ADOPT-A-FARM
- State farm leaders interested in developing Michigan value-added agricultural innovation center
- Texas A&M study spotlights economic costs of Cuban trade embargo to U.S. agriculture industry
- Michigan Sugar Beet Growers Inc. to hold ceremony celebrating purchase of Michigan Sugar facilities
- Michigan Sugar Beet Growers Inc. to hold ceremony celebrating purchase of Michigan Sugar facilities
- Farmers with 2001 weather-related crop losses jam Senate hearing to support zero-interest ag loan program
- Michigan's new TB zones move state closer to achieving vital split-state status, Farm Bureau says
- Incremental trade reform best bet for U.S. ag sales to Cuba
- Ag leaders work with Senate to minimize state's cost for proposed $210 million zero-interest farm loan program
- New standard for apple juice from concentrate would 'destroy' juice market for Mich. apple growers, processors
- Leaders will examine how Michigan farm commodities can be sold to Cuba during trade conference, Jan. 30-Feb. 2
- Michigan Farm Bureau supports plan for certain large livestock farms to require general environmental permits
- Farm leaders will travel to Missouri, Nebraska to glean tips on helping farmers develop value-added businesses
- Battle Creek's Lynn Smith wins award for 'Most Innovative idea' in Farm Bureau's national Farmer Idea Exchange
- Farm votes to play pivotal role in 2002 Michigan elections
- Corn has 'optimistic' economic outlook; soybeans a 'limited price potential,' according to economist at AFBF meeting
- Farm Bureau delegates continue support for farm bill direction during policy development at AFBF meeting
- Michigan FFA Foundation toy tractor fund-raiser falls victim to Quality Farm & Fleet bankruptcy, store closings
- National issues from farm bill to water use are on tap for American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting
- MFB Young Farmers, Idea Exchange finalists to compete for national awards at AFBF meeting
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