On February 26, 2014, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) released his proposal for tax reform. The draft lowers tax rates for individuals and businesses and broadens the tax base by eliminating over 220 tax credits, deductions and exclusions. Click here to read a…
Farmers call them “flying rats” or “deer with wings.” They gather by the tens of thousands every year about this time to graze on sprouting winter wheat, rye, alfalfa, and barley. They’re voracious, persistent, and dirty, leaving behind a trail of droppings. Canada geese. Click…
Mitchell Jones grew up knowing he wanted to be a farmer. “I started in high school as an after-school activity,” Jones said. “I helped work on my neighbor’s farm.” With his father working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and a…
WASHINGTON (AP) – American agriculture has experienced a boom, with market values of crops, livestock and total agricultural products reaching record highs even as the amount of U.S. farmland declined, according to a new government survey. Click here to read more from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Up before the sun, out in the fields all day and sometimes well into the night, tractor headlights illuminating rows of grain. West Windsor farmer Steve Jany has been doing that for 50 years. But as if farming 1,800 acres at Rustin Farms wasn’t enough…
Held in conjunction with the New Jersey Vegetable Growers meeting, the state agricultural convention will be held February 4-6 at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. There will be many worthwhile seminars. For a complete listing of the educational seminars, click here.
Lorraine Merrill, New Hampshire commissioner of agriculture, food and markets, expresses her view on GMO labeling in this OpEd piece in the Concord Monitor. We hear a lot of comments and concerns from people on both sides of the debate about GMO labeling and House…
While workers trimmed peach trees at his Mullica Hill farm this month, Tom Holtzhauser was reluctantly mulling trims of another kind – to his workforce. His labor costs will soar after the November passage of the constitutional amendment raising the state’s minimum wage $1 to…
A workshop regarding the NJ Sales Tax law and how it effects those who board horses will be held Sunday January 19 1:00 – 3:30 at Rick’s Saddle Shop in Cream Ridge. The meeting will feature remarks from Assemblyman Ronald Dancer, who is the sponsor…
The future of New Jersey’s open-space program is at a standstill as unlikely opponents square off on how best to fund the state’s long-standing — but broke — effort to increase parkland, preserve farmland and demolish flood-prone homes and businesses. Two competing funding bills have…
