by Eric Englert | Jul 21, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Telehealth, the process of accessing medical appointments through the internet, offers preventative and specialized patient care to many of the nation’s 62 million rural residents where hospitals are often lacking. Such a system is especially important in...
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by Eric Englert | Jul 13, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Specialty crop farmers need the U.S. Department of Agriculture to spend $10 million to $20 million a year on each major crop to offset labor shortages, rising costs and cutbacks in subsidies in past years, farm industry leaders said Wednesday....
by Eric Englert | Jul 7, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security will take the lead in fighting agro-terrorism and ensuring a safe food supply by providing a better-coordinated response between agencies in the event of an outbreak, officials say. Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts authored the...
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by Eric Englert | Jul 5, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON—Native bees contribute an estimated $3.5 billion to the U.S. economy each year, but their dwindling numbers must be addressed to avoid the possible extinction of some species, Department of Agriculture officials said Wednesday. Among all native, or...
by Eric Englert | Jul 5, 2017 | Environment
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Conserving the diminutive monarch butterfly is a giant issue for Illinois farmers, agriculture experts and conservationists, as its listing as “threatened” looms while the number of acres devoted to butterfly habitat balloons to 87,000...
