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January 15, 2019
Michigan-based AgHelp Corp competed as one of four national finalists in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 2019 Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge.
January 8, 2019
Michigan farmers who had not yet completed their applications for trade assistance under the USDA’s Market Facilitation Program (MFP) prior to the ongoing government shutdown can, perhaps, breathe a little easier.
December 21, 2018
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has designated Grand Traverse County, Michigan, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to hail that occurred on Aug. 1, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill today, following two historic bipartisan votes in Congress last week.
December 13, 2018
Boxwood blight, a serious fungal disease that attacks boxwood – a popular landscape shrub – has been detected for the first time in Michigan at three different locations in Southeast Michigan’s Oakland County at a landscape firm.
Michigan Farm Bureau
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517-679-5437
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517-679-4725
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