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A leading agriculture industry executive urged Georgia lawmakers Monday to consider a constitutional amendment that would let the state government provide direct financial relief to farmers who ...
The current Georgia Farm Bureau was re-formed in 1937 by 50 north Georgia "dirt farmers" who wanted a unified voice in dealing with legislators in both Atlanta and Washington, D.C., That primary mission has not changed and today the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation continues to represent agriculture with a grassroots network of 159 county Farm ...
For more than a decade, farmers in parts of southwest Georgia haven’t been able to drill new irrigation wells into the Floridian aquifer, but that is set to change in 2025.
Georgia farmers suffered storm losses of at least $5.5 billion, according to an analysis by the University of Georgia. In North Carolina, a state agency calculated farmers suffered $3.1 billion in crop losses and recovery costs after Helene brought record rainfall and flooding. Separate economic analyses of farm damage tallied losses of up to ...
Hurricane Helene was also crippling for farmers in Georgia because it hit just six years after Hurricane Michael, Wells said. The 2018 hurricane caused more than $2 billion in overall damage to ...
Georgia farmers were gearing up to harvest millions of dollars worth of fall crops such as cotton, blueberries, bell peppers and squash. But the hurricane winds that ranged from 79 to 111 mph in ...
Farmers' Bulletin was published by the United States Department of Agriculture with the first issue appearing in June 1889. [1] The farm bulletins could be obtained upon the written request to a Member of Congress or to the United States Secretary of Agriculture. The agricultural circular would be sent complimentary to any address within the ...
Eugene Talmadge was born on September 23, 1884, in Forsyth, Georgia, the second of two children to Thomas and Carrie (Roberts) Talmadge. [3] [4] He attended the University of Georgia and graduated from the university's law school in 1907. [4]