Feed Emergency Enhancement During Disasters with Cover Crops (FEEDD) Act, bipartisan legislation to provide farmers and ranchers with additional flexibility to alleviate feed shortages in years with widespread excessive moisture, flooding or drought.
Specifically, the bill would:
Create an emergency waiver authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to allow for haying, grazing or chopping of a cover crop on prevented plant acres before November 1 in the event of a feed shortage due to excessive moisture, flood or drought.
Under this waiver, producers would not see a reduction of their crop insurance indemnity.
Direct the Secretary to establish regional haying and grazing dates for each crop year.
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Western District of WI leads nation in farm bankruptcies
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WISCONSIN (WQOW) - Farms in the Western District of Wisconsin lead the nation in 2020 bankruptcies.
The ranking, that comes from federal court data, is one that doesn t surprise agriculture officials, but does point toward a growing problem in our state.
In the Western District, there were 39 new Chapter 12 filings in 2020, with nearly half of them occurring here in the Chippewa Valley. 18 of these Chapter 12 filings, which is specifically for farms, occurred in seven area counties: Dunn, Clark, Pierce, Trempealeau, Rusk, Barron, and Eau Claire County. Dunn, with four filings, sits at the top of this list and Eau Claire at the bottom with one.
February 11: News from around the Driftless Area
‘News from Around the Driftless Area’ is a compilation showcasing the excellent work and interesting tidbits from the community journalists sprinkled throughout our area.
VIROQUA –Vernon County Dairy Youth Fund seeks scholarship applications The Vernon County Dairy Youth Fund will again award two $500 scholarships for high school seniors and current college students who meet the qualifications. Prior recipients of the Vernon County Dairy Youth Fund Scholarship are not eligible… Snowflake Ski Club was honored to announce the 2021 Jumpmaster, Russ Holte. Russ, his father, and his grandfather have a long history with the Snowflake Ski Club. Russ was president in 1975 and was secretary of the club for 22 years. Russ worked with clubs across the Midwest to promote ski jumping and cross country skiing… The Viroqua Food Co-op’s January 2021 ‘Give Where You Live’ recipient was Living Faith Food Pantry
Farmers Union donates pork to Hunger Task Force
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Family farm groups plan to donate 180,000 of pork to needy families living in a five-state region.
Recently, a large donation of protein found its way from family farmers to inner-city Milwaukee, when a Farmers Union Enterprises truck unloaded 35,000 pounds of pork ribs at Hunger Task Force, Milwaukee’s primary community food bank.
Farmers Union Enterprises (FUE) teamed up with Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU) to donate the pork ribs.
Farmers Union says the donation is part of a giving spree that will deliver a total of 180,000 pounds of ribs to food banks in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin over the next several weeks. Last year the group distributed 150,000 pounds of pork ribs to food banks in the five-state area.
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