‘We’re going to lose everything’: Texas egg farm still waiting on federal aid after winter storm
Cedar Ridge Egg Farm in Hopkins County lost 1,000 of its hens, and most of the others stopped laying eggs.
Sam Miller, 55, holds one of the hens behind the barn at Cedar Ridge Free Range farm in Pickton, Texas on Saturday, February 27, 2021. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News)(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
After the snowstorm hit Texas last month, Sam Miller and his family thought they had managed to get through the worst of it unscathed. Their family egg farm and the 30 acres it sits on in Pickton, about 90 miles northeast of Dallas in Hopkins County, were blanketed in thick snow and ice, but they still had water and sporadic electricity. They were lucky.
iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Mar 12, 2021 11:18am Cows in a field in Joyceville, Ont., in June 2018. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood
Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s National Baked Scallops Day. Your host, who is not a seafood fan (#SorryNotSorry), thinks she might just skip ahead to tomorrow’s holidays: National Gingerale Day and National Coconut Torte Day.
For those of you more in the snacking mood, Sunday is National Potato Chip Day.
Here’s today’s agriculture news.
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The Scientific Commission of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has determined Canada’s application to change its bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) status from a controlled-risk country to one of negligible risks meets the necessary requirements and has sent its recommendation to the broader OIE delegation, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says.
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Fillmore County Amish gray water case petitions U.S. Supreme Court
The January 2021 filing asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of four members of the Fillmore County Swartzentruber Amish community. 11:07 am, Mar. 2, 2021 ×
Members of the Fillmore County Swartzentruber Amish community have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case on whether the government can force them to install a septic system for the disposal of bath, laundry and dish water on their rural Fillmore County farms when it conflicts with their religious beliefs.
In a petition filed on Jan. 20, 2021, by attorney Brian Lipford, Ammon Swartzentruber, Menno Mast, Amos Mast and Sam Miller ask the high court to consider two questions under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act: Does the government have a compelling interest in regulating the disposal of gray water, which includes laundry, bath and dishwater; and, is a septic system the least restrictive method