Small farms losing face in governmentresume."You can go online to see what bills we are working on," Banks said. "As we go into the new year, you can bet that agriculture and farming are going to be a focus for us all."By CHRISTIE BARKLEY...
This week, libraries across the U.S. were told that their approved federal grants had been cancelled, according to the American Library Association. On Monday, nearly all employees at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, were placed on administrative leave. Steve Potash, founder and CEO...
Grants for Purchasing Rural Land In addition to this, the government also offers money to farmers looking toward sustainable practices, the conservation of endangered wildlife, eco-friendly methods of farming and creating small farms with the aim of continuing their operations in the shadows of large...
Small Family Farms and Natural Disasters: Natural Disasters Disproportionately Hurt Small Farms, but Should the Government Care?Summer of 1995 was a year for the record books in Hermiston, a small farming community in Oregon...Gough, Luisa Lloyd...
Some of the funding comes in the form of grants, designed to kick-start domestic manufacturing in areas like batteries for EVs and energy technologies. I wrote about several billion dollars going to companies making battery components and producing their ingredients. ...
Unfortunately—but, givenhuman nature, inevitably—the young cities of Sumer quarrelled over the distribution of the rivers’ water, and their wealth excited the greed ofnomadsoutside the still comparatively small area of civilization (a word deriving from theLatinword for city,civitas).War, perhap...
…The city mentioned potential funding from the Illinois Grocery Initiative — which commits $20 million for grants and technical assistance for grocery stores across the state. Chicago would be the first major city in the U.S. with a municipally-owned grocery store if advanced. Given the ...
Entrepreneurs have access to various government programs such as small-business assistance, assistance for minorities and women, and environmental grants. The Small Business Administration provides various counseling and training programs and resources for business owners seeking financial support. The administr...
Jeff and Karen Zuck, who own the 160-acre, 117-head dairy farm that was Romney’s chosen backdrop for the rare non-Fox interview, have collected $195,631 in federal subsidies since 1995. The $44,549 in grants they got in 2009, Barack Obama’s first year in office, was almost twice...
for subsidies and grants based on, for example, their age, being located in a disadvantaged area, and practicing agriculture that is environmentally friendly (European Commission, DG AGRI2018). Nonetheless, the majority of EU CAP economic support goes to industrial farms with whom small farmers ...