A Season In ‘Limbo’
Farm Bill Extension Leaves Local Farmers, Ag Officials To Cope With Uncertainty
Posted: January 16, 2013
Cows wait for milking at Gerald Heatwole’s Cub Run Dairy Farm on Monday. “The uncertainty that sort of clouds the future is the most difficult part for all sectors of ag” with the federal farm bill in limbo, Heatwole says. (Photos by Nikki Fox / DN-R)
Holstein dairy cows leave the parlor after Monday afternoon milking on Gerald Heatwole’s Cub Run farm.
Farmhand Adam Pence helps out with the milking of the 300 cows at Cub Run.
HARRISONBURG — While the nine-month farm bill extension that Congress slipped into the New Year’s “fiscal cliff” bill averted some major crises, it wasn’t the solution many local ag officials...
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