Forestry News

Since last year, it has been too dry and hot in large parts of Germany, although at the start of May, when the oilseed rape was flowering, it was cold and frosty, which means that pod-setting suffered. Then there was the heat wave at the end of June, right in the middle of ripening. Yields have often been between 35 and 40 dt/ha, so considerably better than last year and in the range of the ...

Jul. 1, 2020

By Rapool Ring Gmbh

U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today applauded U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s announcement of five federal school nutrition program flexibilities through June 30, 2021. “I thank Secretary Perdue for providing certainty to school food service operators that flexibilities will remain available ...

Jun. 25, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

Every American has a part to play in slowing the spread of the coronavirus. While many are working from home, an important few are working overtime on farms and ranches to make sure grocery store shelves are stocked. From harvesting wheat in Kansas to picking blueberries in Georgia, producers are getting up before the sun every day, while also adapting their operations to keep workers safe. They ...

Jun. 25, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the business meeting to consider the U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020. Stabenow’s statement, as prepared for ...

Jun. 24, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the legislative hearing to review S. 3894, the  ...

Jun. 24, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing on S. 3894, The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020. “Maintaining the health of our planet for future generations is, of course, of paramount importance. So is feeding the billions of people that populate the Earth today and in the years ...

Jun. 24, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

June 22-28 is National Pollinator week. One week to celebrate the little things that make the world go round. What’s all the buzz? Pollinators are a huge group of insects with species that have different life histories, biologies, and needs. They boggle the mind at all that they’re doing right under our noses and we don’t even know a quarter of what that is. ...

Jun. 24, 2020

By Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry hosted a hearing on the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act, where prominent agricultural leaders urged passage of the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act.   U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Committee, and Mike Braun (R-IN), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Conservation, ...

Jun. 24, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee passed the bipartisan U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act of 2020 by a voice vote. Click here to read the legislation, summary, and ...

Jun. 24, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

The High Density is a sprayer designed to carry out localized treatments, transferring the usual proximity of vineyard applications to other crops such as apple trees, pear trees and other fruit trees in the “trellis” plantation model, and also in the super-intensive olive and almond crops, among others. This sprayer allows efficient and precise ...

Jun. 22, 2020

By Pulverizadores Fede SL

U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., wrote to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting the extension of existing flexibilities for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) through September 30, 2020, as authorized by the Families First Coronavirus ...

Jun. 22, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, which oversees the U.S. Forest Service, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed the Great American Outdoors Act. “Our public lands and forests are an integral part of our way of life. By investing in our national forests, the Great American Outdoors ...

Jun. 17, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

Okay that was a second log on Mill and now off the mill. I ran out of daylight though so I had to kinda patch this one together for you guys. It’s the next morning, I woke up early this morning and I started getting the boards the ends cut off so they were nice and square and also to rip them I have to cut them because they’re so wide down to 11inches and a quarter for our boards were ...

Jun. 17, 2020

By Hud-Son Forest Equipment

U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., applauded today’s announcement on U.S.-based clearinghouses from U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert. In implementing European Market Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR 2.2), the European Commission (EC) has indicated, through its delegated acts, it will not subject ...

Jun. 11, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

Today, a group of ten Senators led by U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, raised questions about the efficiency and effectiveness of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program. “As you know, COVID-19 has caused great hardship for farmers and families across the ...

Jun. 6, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

The Landbased Training and Education Committee (LE-TEC Ltd), the industry collaborative that aims to promote training and education for people working within agricultural, horticultural and forestry machinery dealerships, manufacturers, and associated businesses, is proud to announce the launch of its newly redesigned website at ...

May 29, 2020

By Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA)

“We purchased an Oscar II Sawmill from one of your dealers back in 2000 and we literally worked the snot out of it. Our home is 5500 sq ft and every element you see is hand made from sawmill lumber. The frame (except wall studs), flooring, sub floors, trusses, rafters, clap board siding (made on a jig) – hundreds of thousands of feet of 1x6s, 2x8s, columns and trim, every interior ...

May 27, 2020

By Hud-Son Forest Equipment

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, introduced legislation to help protect the food supply after the COVID-19 crisis has put an unprecedented strain on farmers, workers, food banks, and families. “The COVID-19 crisis has tested the strength of our ...

May 27, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced the Kansas recipients of the first round of funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Broadband program. “As a rural state, Kansas communities need access to high speed internet, a necessary tool to grow and thrive in the 21st century,”said ...

May 18, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry

Today, a group of 29 Democratic Senators led by U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, raised new concerns about the Trump Administration’s Executive Order that has pressured meat processing plants to open without verifying the necessary safety measures     to protect workers and the food supply. ...

May 15, 2020

By U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry