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Food Safety Of Farm-Raised Game - Page Has Moved
Food Safety of Farm-Raised Game has moved to a new location! The new URL for this page is: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Farm_Raised_Game/ ... [Read More]
Forces Behind Wind Power
New York. With regard to electricity industry restructuring, New York is currently phasing in retail competition statewide. Each utility has its own timetable of targets. Some utilities have reached full retail access, while others expect to by the end of 2001. Although it is not entirely clear how the industry will change as restructuring transpires, New York presently has some support for renewable energy (including wind). In the past, a surcharge levied on intrastate sales of gas and electricity by investor-owned utilities provided funds for, among other things, research, development and commercialization of renewable technology as well as financial support to further market penetration of renewable energy. For the future, the New York Public Services Commission ordered utilities to provide unbundled billing by April 2000, which will identify electricity provided by green sources. Also, the PSC has set rules for a new system benefits charge to fund R&D for renewable energy. The ... [Read More]
Session F: Social Issues | What Is a Farm, and Why Does It Matter?
Losses that would be suffered by a narrow official definition of U.S. farms are far reaching. Keeping the farm definition behaviorally diverse in addition to or instead of a low sales threshold will keep the information needed to understand, serve and guide the diversity and strength of American agriculture and the biological, economic, social, and environmental security of our food and fiber system. In the future, the issue of what is officially a farm will emerge again. Those for whom the definition of farm matters -- farmers, other citizens, agricultural scientists, public agencies, and private agricultural business interests -- will have to determine what criteria are important for including places as farms in the national base of statistical information. When the time comes, perhaps a definition can be more clearly formulated to include behavioral criteria beyond annual farm product sales. If so, this will be to the advantage of keeping small farms in the data and information base ... [Read More]
AWIC Newsletter: Congress In Session
Of the funds made available to the Cooperative State Research Service, USDA, under Public Law 103-330, $7,586,000 is rescinded, including $524,000 for contracts and grants for agricultural research under the Act of August 4, 1965, as amended (7 U.S.C. 450i(c)); $434,000 for necessary expenses of Cooperative State Research Service activities; $327,000 for cool season legume; $188,000 for entomology acoustics detection; $220,000 for low bush blueberry; $4,200,000 for wood utilization; $1,000,000 for geographic information systems; and $600,000 for agricultural development in the American Pacific: Provided, That the amount of "$9,917,000" available under this heading in Public Law 103-330 (108 Stat. 2441) for a program of capacity building grants to colleges eligible to receive funds under the Act of August 30, 1890, is amended to read "$9,207,000." ... [Read More]
A Brief Overview of Fremont County Weed and Pest Control District
We focus on using tax dollars to treat weeds on public rights of way. The Wyoming Department of Transportation contracts with the district for vegetation management on 500 centerline mile of state highways where we treat delineators and guard rails, annual broadleaf weeds and designated noxious weeds. We contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to control weeds on 350 miles of tribal roads and 450 miles of irrigation canals. We treat weeds on 3,000 miles of county maintained roads. We handle vegetation management tasks for Midvale Irrigation District which operates the largest canal system in the county of 500 miles of delivery system, 400 miles of drains, and thousands of acres of non-irrigated rangeland inside of the original irrigation take. As part of our operation we help the county maintain maps on a computer based GIS system for land ownership, weed inventory, roads, surface water and soil types, applicator records, topography, and rural addressing. We are now able to provide ... [Read More]
Central Federal Lands- Projects/WY/Beartooth Highway
After the foregoing actions, the complete route was covered by legislation or by administrative action in accordance with legislation. The various components of the highway were constructed using Forest Highway funds, Federal-aid funds, and funds from the Park Approach Act authorization. The design and construction was directed by the Bureau of Public Roads. Surveying and location studies of the new route were started almost immediately, beginning at Quad Creek (current MP 53.8). Construction contracts were let on June 27, 1931, and initial construction operations began later that summer. The contracts were awarded to the low bidders: Winston Brothers Company (Minneapolis, MN) for the western part from the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park through Cooke City to a point near the L Bar T Ranch in the Clarks Fork valley; McNutt and Pyle was awarded the summit section from the Clarks Fork valley to the Montana Border (MP 43.1); and Morrison Knuds ... [Read More]
Grand Teton NP: A Place Called Jackson Hole (Chapter 11)
In 1928, the Snake River Land Company, the Rockefeller-sponsored Utahcorporation formed in 1927, began buying homesteads in the valley, whichincluded appurtenant water rights. The company intended to donate thelands to the National Park Service for incorporation into an expandedGrand Teton National Park. The prolonged controversy over park extensionposed a problem for company officials. Wyoming state law specifies ". .. if the owner or owners of a ditch, canal or reservoir shall fail touse the water therefrom for irrigation or other beneficial use duringany five successive years, they shall be considered as having abandonedthe same and shall forfeit all water rights . . ." Other claimants canthen apply for the abandoned rights. To prevent loss of these rights,the Snake River Land Company maintained and altered irrigation systemsin the park and leased some lands for grazing, cultivation, or duderanching. [ 19 ] ... [Read More]
1997 Guest Book Entries
Newcastle, WWyWWy United States - Wednesday, March 26, 1997 at 21:22:33(MST) I found your home page real good but it took some time to fine yourLabor Department to look for job openings and other information in thatarea but I did't find any information on how people in other States canapply for a job that they my want to check into but other then that it wasfine and I thought the other information you have on your web sites wasreal good I do want to thank you for the chance to look over your stateInformation ... [Read More]
State of Utah Department of Agriculture and Food
UDAF Weights and Measures inspectors perform routine inspections of the scales used to regulate the sale and transportation of gravel used for the Interstate-15 reconstruction project. ... UDAF recently imposed fines against an American Fork meat processor for illegally selling uninspected meat. ... The deadline for 1997 Utah Century Farm & Ranch applications was April 1 . ... [Read More]
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