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McCaskill lauds Postal Service steps to prevent closures
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The United States Postal Service announced a new plan Tuesday that would prevent closures of rural post offices, including hundreds of offices in rural Missouri. Under the new plan, the postal service would keep existing offices open, but cut back the number of hours the window is staffed. Hours for post [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A bipartisan contingent of U.S. Senators are calling on Senate leadership to move forward with debate on the 2012 farm bill. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, 44 Senators — including Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill and Republican Roy Blunt — called for the [...]
Continue reading …Missouri lawmakers laud Labor Department withdrawal of proposed farm labor rule
April 27, 2012 1 Comment
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Obama administration is backing away from a proposal to prevent children from working on farms owned by anyone other than their parents. In response to heavy political pressure from both Republicans and Democrats, the Labor Department said Thursday that it is pulling back a proposal that would have restricted teenagers from [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A rural lawmaker from mid-Missouri thinks University Extension offices are important enough for local governments to help foot the bill. With the state budget for higher education facing perhaps another round of cuts in 2013, some services at the county extension offices have been curtailed while other offices have been closed [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Politicians are in a budget cutting mood in Washington D.C. and Missouri farmers hope the the axe doesn’t cut too deeply. Last week, House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, proposed cutting farm programs by $30 billion over the next ten years. The cuts would come generally from reductions and [...]
Continue reading …Jefferson City, Mo. — Legislation seen as protection from referendums on new farm regulations from groups like the Humane Society of the United States has passed the Missouri House of Representatives. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Tom Loehner, R-Koeltztown, would allow livestock farmers to continue their current practices despite the passage of any new [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Farmers hard hit by flooding in northwest Missouri will get some more help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has announced that it will make about $3 million available to farmers in the northwest part of the state from the Emergency Watershed Program. The program [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The owner of a Gallatin, Mo. grain company is headed for federal prison. Daniel Froman will spend six years in prison and has been ordered to provide restitution for area farmers he defrauded of more than $3 million. Froman and his wife Pauline pleaded guilty to mail fraud last fall. Investigators say [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A study by an agriculture economics group at the University of Missouri shows that farm income will fall slightly in 2012 due to dropping crop prices. The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri (FAPRI-MU) made public its “U.S. Baseline Briefing Book on agricultural and biofuel markets [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — It may be a rare occurrence, but grocery prices in Missouri rose to more than the national average in the final quarter of 2011. And the USDA says prices will continue to go up this calendar year. The American Farm Bureau tracks grocery prices in their Market Basket Survey. It’s a [...]
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