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	West Virginia poultry grower's environmental award makes 5 in a row - Pine Draft Farm in Augusta, WV was one of six farms across the United States to receive the Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award during the 2012 International Poultry Expo in Atlanta. Pine Draft Farm is owned and operated by Brian and Kelli Eglinger. They make the fifth West Virginia farm in a row to bring home honors in the northeast region competition. More at our farm news page>>
	Maryland announces new cost-share assistance for manure injection/incorporation - The Maryland Department of Agriculture recently announced that cost-share assistance is now available to dairy, beef or swine farmers who incorporate manure into their crop fields using manure injection and incorporation equipment designed to conserve the soil and reduce nitrogen and phosphorus losses to the environment. More at our farm news page>>
	Cattlemen: President's budget threatens to tax agriculture out of business - President Barack Obama recently proposed a multi-trillion-dollar-budget saying it is designed to spur job creation and impose higher taxes on the rich. National Cattlemen's Beef Association President J.D. Alexander said, however, the president's take on the estate tax threatens job creation and punishes the producers of food and fiber. More at our farm news page>>
	NC to help local farmers' markets with advertising costs - The NC Department of Agriculture and Consumers Services will begin accepting applications March 1 from local farmers' markets interested in grants for cooperative advertising assistance. The funding is made possible through a $125,000 grant from the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission. Officials say the cost-share program will help smaller markets spread the word about the locally grown products available in their own backyard. More at our farm news page>>
	Which farmer feeds you? Virginia Agriculture Week is March 4 - 10 - At the American Farm Bureau convention in January 2012, Dave Barry told the assembled crowd that food does NOT come from the supermarket. “That’s so stupid,” he said. “It comes from the trucks parked behind the supermarket. Even I know that.” Just a few years ago, he would have touched a nerve with such a statement; most Americans had little or no concept of how and where their food originated. But today, more and more consumers are quite informed about, and interested in, where their food starts out. They want to know which farmers feed them. More at our farm news page>>

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