Category: Agriculture

California farmer John Duarte faces millions of dollars in penalties for refusing the Environmental Protection Agency’s order not to plow his own land. Duarte, a fourth-generation Central California tree, vine, and wheat farmer, has been at odds with the EPA since 2011 when his farm was ordered closed after he planted his field despite regulators’

Yesterday, Georgia Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall was elected to become the next president of the American Farm Bureau Federation at it’s 97th annual meeting in Orlando, FL.  From the Southern Farm Press: “This election is not about policy. It’s about the style of leadership you want,”Duvall told the delegates. “I’m going to get up