Amendment E was passed via referendum in November 1998 with 59 percent of the vote. It was backed by more than two-thirds of farmers and...
Initiative Number 300, the country’s toughest anti-corporate farming law, was adopted in 1982 as part of the state’s constitution–thus it cannot be changed by the...
The Internal Revenue Code, Section 1042(g) is a new provision passed by Congress in 1998 that allows the owners of agricultural and horticultural processing plants...
The Oklahoma Producers Tax Credit (H.B. 2959) passed in 1996, giving a value added processing tax credit to farmers and ranchers. For every dollar an...
In 2001 North Dakota lawmakers approved Senate Bill Number 2386, which gives a state income tax credit of up to a maximum of $6,000 annually...
The Missouri New Generation Cooperative Incentive Tax Credit Program is provided by the Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority to encourage investments in new-gen...
In 1999 the Iowa legislature passed a law allowing value-added agricultural businesses to claim a ten percent corporate tax credit on new investment which is...
In May 2001 the Colorado legislature passed HB 1086, which created the Agriculture Value-Added Development Board within the Department of Agriculture. The Board makes grants,...
In 1996, the six states of New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts) were authorized by Congress to form the Northeast...
In recent years livestock producers, particularly small ones, have been at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis large meatpackers because so many market transactions were unreported. Cash...
At one time more than 100 large cities nationwide require their employees to live within city boundaries. But over the last decade, some of these...
The conversion of biomass into ethanol and biodiesel provides farmers an additional market for their crops. Over the years, many federal and state rules have...
In many states, higher prices are offered for large shipments of cattle or hogs, effectively discriminating against smaller producers providing identical products. In the absence...
Corporate owned farms tend to be large-scale operations that produce food for consumers who are widely dispersed geographically. They are also operations whose profits are...