A California slaughterhouse is under intense scrutiny after the Humane Society obtained video of workers using forklifts, electrocution, high-pressure water and sticks to get sick cattle to stand…
When people talk about the risks of global warming, the discussion usually centers around rising ocean levels. We are all of us, skeptics and believers alike, aware of the images of Florida half-submerged, the Pacific islands obliterated,…
OK, that headline will be the last of the side-show banter, I promise, but I do want to welcome you to the annual Joe Kimball State Fair Blog, a compendium of the interesting and odd, the unusual and…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will ask for federal aid for farmers facing a loss of crops due to drought, according to a release from the governor’s office.
Pawlenty, a Republican, made the statement after visiting Morrison county…
If it looks like a grain bin and it smells like a grain bin, it gets taxed as a grain bin. The Minnesota Supreme Court agreed with a lower court’s decision that Custom Ag Service of Montevideo’s grain bins should…
Giving to your congressman does pay off, but measuring the results is not that simple
It stands to reason that those politicians whose districts most benefit from agriculture receive the most political contributions from the agribusiness sector. But…
In the coming weeks Minnesota Monitor will be looking at farm policy. We will attempt — and this is a grand challenge — to make this information understandable to regular folks living in the city,…
The wailing and gnashing-of-teeth reaction to the Federal Railroad Administration’s rejection of a proposed $2.3 billion loan for the DM&E railroad has strangely not come from Powder River Basin coal interests or coal-fired utilities in the nation’s midsection, both…
That was the question before the Minnesota Supreme Court Thursday in the case of Custom Ag Service vs. Commissioner of Revenue. The commissioner had taxed Custom Ag for a use tax on bins that had been brought in from…
Part I: Election 2008, Farm Subsidies
Lots of Minnesota related news today, so this will be a series of short takes in several parts:
Robert Novak reports on the 2008 Senate race and the 1st Congressional District race…
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