WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has launched a website, www.farmers.gov, which features updated tools and information to help agricultural producers prepare for and recover from impacts of natural disasters.
Building a new dairy barn might not seem feasible these days, but after some careful planning, that’s exactly what Cole McLaughlin did.
Corn price projections lowered by 10 cents a bushel
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
Twelve years ago, Debbi Merrill developed an interest in alpacas and purchased three for her farm. Now, the farm consists of 17 alpacas on 60 acres of land. People from across the community come to visit the alpaca farm every year.
Local farmers aren’t quite sure what to make of President Donald Trump’s seeming embrace, over the weekend, of a world without government subsidies for people who make products for export.
Images from the 2018 Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, State of the State Speech in Montgomery.
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
Images from a property tax auction at the Calhoun County Administration Building in Anniston.
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
Events of local interest from 75 and 25 years ago.
Under the withering heat and aridity of a drought that engulfs much of the Southeast and all of Alabama, the grass Wendell Wilson's cows would normally chew is brittle and dead.Â
