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The bill, introduced by the Gov. Janet Mills, would require agricultural workers to be paid at least the state minimum wage.
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Five Pillars Butchery is seeking federal grants to construction a new processing facility, and is in the early stages of creating a halal meat processors cooperative.
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In the quest for climate solutions, Maine entrepreneurs are banking on biochar, a charcoal-like substance. They say it can bind up carbon for decades, and improve agricultural soils at the same time.
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A late-season frost this year hit apple blossoms when they were at full bloom, and a few days of extreme cold in February knocked out nearly the entire Maine peach crop.
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Their testimony will help Congress write a new Farm Bill, rural and agriculture policy legislation that's written roughly every five years.
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The bills would have blocked foreign government-owned entities from spending money on Maine ballot campaigns, and ensured that farmworkers earn no less than Maine's hourly minimum wage of $13.80.
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Farmers who participate in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program are paid an annual rental fee to remove agricultural land from production and plant it with species that protect wildlife and mitigate climate change.
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Auburn's unique income requirements in the agricultural zone has protected it's character for decades.
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Farming is a big CO2 emitter. But could it be a climate solution? Wolfe's Neck is leading the chargeLast September, Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment in Freeport received a $35 million grant from the USDA to expand climate-friendly, regenerative farming practices nationwide. Now a national leader, Wolfe’s Neck Center has big plans to help farms across the country transform our food system.
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So far, contamination has been found on 56 farms and 23% of the more than 1,500 groundwater samples that have been collected – both from agricultural sites and residential wells – have tested above Maine’s interim standard of 20 parts per trillion for the cumulative total of six types of PFAS.