Photo credit: USDA Farming lends itself to spending a lot of time alone. Physically getting together with like-minded people is naturally more difficult in rural America with fewer people nearby, bigger distances to drive, and fewer meeting places. However, building community is important for mental health and continued learning. The internet has been changing the way farmers network and get information for years. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s played a critical role in keeping farmers connected to ag businesses and each other over the last year.
Industry Events Through 2020, many staple industry events were not held in person. Farm Science Review, USDA’s Ag Outlook Forum, and Farm Progress Show were moved online. The 2021 National Farm Machinery Show was cancelled all together.
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Photo credit: Hannah Borg Farmers and ranchers across a wide section of the U.S. have been dealing with record-low temps as a polar vortex swept the country in February. While many Midwestern producers expect harsh winter conditions, the extreme temperatures and snow accumulation are rare for Texas and other Southern states.
Ohio Jane Marshall has farmed with her husband near Eaton, Ohio, for more than 32 years. She’s no stranger to extreme winter weather but admits snow and cold “are not fun.” Her family’s dairy is prepared to keep water lines open and animals out of the wind, but keeping everything running takes a lot of extra work. It took every spare extension cord in the house to get the tractor started Wednesday morning, she explained.
March 18, 2021 | 4:43 pm EDT by Joe Reedy
The league took in $5.9 billion a year in its current contracts. It will get $113 billion over the 11 seasons of the new deals that begin in 2023, an increase of 80% over the previous such period. Amazon has partnered with the league to stream Thursday night games since 2017, but it will take over the entire package from Fox, which has had it since 2018. Games will continue to air on CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN, while ABC will have a limited schedule of games as well as returning to the Super Bowl rotation for the first time since the 2005 season. Above, CBS, with lead anchors Tony Romo (l) and Jim Nantz, will continue to carry its traditional package of games.
March 18, 2021 | 7:20 am EDT by Brooke Singman
Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz and Republican Sen. John Thune on Wednesday rolled out a bipartisan bill that would increase “accountability” for Big Tech companies and enhance transparency regarding content moderation for users, in an effort to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The bill, titled the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act and also known as the “PACT Act,” would preserve the benefits of Section 230 a rule that shields social media companies from being held liable for content on their platforms while allowing them to moderate that content while making “significant reforms” to protect Americans using the platforms.
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