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Thursday, May 25, 2023
Marion Berry, a presidential aide during the Clinton administration and seven-term Democratic congressman from Arkansas, died Friday in Little Rock at after a long illness.
Former Rep. Charles W. Stenholm, a conservative Texas Democrat who was a leading architect of agricultural policy in the late 20th century, died suddenly Wednesday at his home in Granbury, Texas. He was 84.
USDA employees rate their work experience notably higher than they did a year ago, according to an annual survey published by the Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group.
If current environmental trends continue through the end of the century, the world could see corn production decline by 40 percent but wheat yields gain 30-40 percent, according to a top NASA scientist.
Former Sen. James G. Abourezk, D-S.D., who launched a short congressional career with a boost from his state’s rural electric cooperatives during a high-profile referendum campaign in 1969, died in Sioux Falls on Friday, his 92nd birthday.
Negotiations are underway to sell The National Grange's 11-story building, which is located only a block from the White House, continuing the trend for many farm groups that have gotten out of owning real estate.
Former Senate Republican Leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole, who forged a legislative record in food and agriculture and the rights of the disabled, died Sunday. He was 98.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will celebrate a new biography “Rhymes with Fighter: Clayton Yeutter, American Statesman,” of former U.S. Trade Representative and Secretary of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter with a November 4 book launch.
C.W. (Bill) McMillan, a long-time lobbyist and consultant for the U.S. beef cattle industry and briefly an Agriculture Department assistant secretary, died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 95.
Roman Leshchenko, Ukraine’s minister of agrarian policy and food, has a vision of creating a global agricultural powerhouse with the initiation of a new land reform program to create a private farmland market and modernization of its Soviet-era irrigation system.
