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The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
A century farm sign for Williamson Farm in Oregon, United States. A Century Farm or Centennial Farm is a farm or ranch in the United States or Canada that has been officially recognized by a regional program documenting the farm has been continuously owned by a single family for 100 years or more.
The town sits on the drainage divide between the White River tributaries to the south and the Missouri River tributaries to the north. [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.90 square miles (4.92 km 2 ), of which 1.88 square miles (4.87 km 2 ) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2 ) is water.
Feb. 2—People who want to apply to have their sesquicentennial and century farm recognized have until March 7 to submit an application. Minnesota Farm Bureau's Sesquicentennial Farm program will ...
Members of Congress writing the 2023 U.S. Farm Bill should remember three things: Hunger in America is a serious problem. Climate change requires adjustments in farming practices.
As a result of the efforts of Colman, Sanborn, and others at the University of Missouri, the number of Missouri farms experienced significant growth during the 1870s. At the beginning of the decade, the state had slightly less than 150,000 farms and 9.1 million acres of farmland; by 1880, there were more than 215,000 farms and 16.7 million ...
The first farm bill of the new millennium was the Farm Security Act of 2002, which was signed into law on May 13, 2002. [23] Some of the bill's major changes in comparison to the 1996 bill include an alteration of the farm payment program and the introduction of counter-cyclical farm income support.
In February 2023, Smithfield Foods closed its meatpacking plant in Vernon, California. [10] [11] [12] In May 2023, the company closed 37 sow farms in Missouri. [8] [13] [14] In October 2023 the company shut down a pork plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. [15] In December 2023 Smithfield ended contracts with 26 hog farms in Utah citing ...