America’s largest trade association of cattle producers says President Donald Trump’s plan to lower beef prices is political theater. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which represents more than 175,000 cattle producers and feeders, said on Friday that the strategy would do more harm than good for the industry. Earlier that day, Trump said the US
Ida Huddleston has lived on the same stretch of farmland outside Maysville, Kentucky, since she was 16. She and her late husband built a log home there, raised children, and worked the soil through six decades of marriage. Today, the family owns roughly 1,200 acres, and multiple generations still live on it. Last spring, an
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Jimmy Carter worked as a peanut farmer before becoming president of the United States. Mikki Ansin/Getty Images Some American presidents had unexpected jobs before reaching the White House. Abraham Lincoln worked as a postmaster in New Salem, Illinois. John F. Kennedy was a journalist and reported on the end of World War II. While many
BROOKSVILLE, Kentucky.- Even as the sun began to set, the heat of the day still hung in the air as Annie Woods returned to harvesting pumpkins and zucchini on her 50-acre farm. The prolonged, intense heat is part of a pattern of extreme weather events driven by climate change that has also led to intense
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government had made clear to Beijing its concerns about China’s ballistic missile test. “We do not want to see any action that is destabilizing or that undermines the peace, security and stability of the Pacific and the region, and there is no doubt that this is a provocative act