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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, in partnership with NV Energy and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, is seeking public comment on the NV Energy Resilience Corridors project.

Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees are struggling to agree on terms of a farm bill extension.

The Agriculture Department has a lot of services, funding and tools for specialty crop farmers – including a new $100 million program to help producers sell their crops overseas - and the USDA wants to make sure that those farmers take advantage of them, Deputy USDA Secretary Xochitl Torres Small told reporters Thursday.

Farmers who bought crop insurance in 2022 will receive dramatically less in disaster aid than they have in recent years because of a “progressive factoring methodology” USDA made to the Emergency Relief Program for losses last year’s, according to an analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The Agriculture Department on Thursday raised its yield estimates for corn and soybeans and predicted stronger production for both commodities in its November crop report.

There is no immediate public health concern due to this finding.

It’s nice that the beginning of the school year is almost immediately rewarded with a three-day weekend. You’ll find annual events like Civil War Days in Virginia City and the Best in the West Rib Cook-off in Sparks, in addition to smaller happenings like the monthly Downtown Carson City Wine Walk and a roller derby double-header.

School officials in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Washington state said they were preparing for the shortage, while the US Department of Agriculture acknowledged that the supply chain problem affects “multiple states.”

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