For the week of October 4 to 10, 2009. Not your average farm news, and not intended to be all inclusive of every article related to US agriculture.  It’s just meant give you a few pieces from here and there that you probably didn’t read in your local paper. 

USDA OKs $17.4M loan for Kansas wind farm project
Forbes
The US Department of Agriculture will loan about $17.4 million to Greensburg Wind Farm LLC, a subsidiary of John Deere Renewables. ...

Congresswoman Seeks Grassroots Solutions to Dairy Crisis
Lancaster Farming
When US Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper hosted a dairy solution forum at the Butler Farm Show Grounds this past Monday, she did not come with a solution to ...

Low quality makes farmers discount spring wheat
The Associated Press
"What we're seeing on our farm is about a (percentage) point less than average; it's running around 13.5 when normally it's around 14.5," said Richard, ...

FFA teaches kids where food comes from
Marion Star
The US Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service reports the average age of US farm operators increased from 55.3 in 2002 to 57.1 ...

Family Guy maze cut into corn field at farm
Telegraph.co.uk
The programme is shown on the Fox Network in the US, and BBC3 in Britain. “They waived the rights and all that," Mr Connors added. ...

Fun Friday: Clayton Valley Pumpkin Farm gets my vote!
Examiner.com
Originated in 1975 as a “you pick garden” where the public was welcome to do their shopping right off the vine; David told me, “people were coming up to us ...

Roger Beachy: GM crop pioneer now US farm science chief
New Scientist
US farm research is getting a shake-up with the creation of a National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to fund academic agricultural research. ...

The Voice of Agriculture - American Farm Bureau
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 9, 2009 – “The American Farm Bureau Federation supports the U.S. Trade Representative's request for a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel in its case against the European Union's ban on ...

Searching For Dragons
By Grant
Also during this time, U.S. Department of Agriculture policy began favoring larger farms (the average U.S. farm size grew from 100 acres in 1930 to almost 500 acres by 1990), and production for export. ...

Greensburg to receive $17.4 million wind farm loan | Washington ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will loan about $17.4 million to Greensburg Wind Farm, LLC, a subsidiary of John Deere Renewables. The remaining $5.8 million will come from an equity investment by Deere & Company. ...

US agriculture head on breaking dairy boom and bust
By guy.montague-jones@decisionnews.com
During a visit to a farm in South Dakota this week, AP quoted US agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack as saying: “I think really what will be next in line is a longer term discussion about whether or not we need to make structural changes ...

Web Research U.s. Farm Grants Writing Jobs
Web Research U.s. Farm Grants. I need research done on grants that are available to farmers in the United States This information will be used in a guide ...

Survey shows US farm income down
Rabobank conducted its Farm & Ranch survey to gauge farmers confidence among target regions in the U.S. Its research found less than 5% of farms saw an ...