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DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman faces further scrutiny after it emerged that her husband helps run the company in charge of the £350m computer system at the Rural Payments Agency.

Australian Wool Innovation chairman Wal Merriman has faced torrid questioning from a Senate Estimates committee. Source: ABC Rural

Krista Lottinville and Samantha Werner have their sights set on agriculture. As participants at the first annual Women Changing the Face of Agriculture career extravaganza sponsored by Illinois AgriWomen in Bloomington, Illinois, last month, their enthusiasm was contagious. Source: AgricultureOnline

Turning a hobby into a cash-making venture sounds like everyone’s dream, but a young Carroll County man did it and went to college at the same time. Source: Farm and Dairy

DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman faces further scrutiny after it emerged that her husband helps run the company in charge of the £350m computer system at the Rural Payments Agency. Source: Farmers Weekly Interactive

The wine glut has forced Australia's wine grape growers to rip out about 10,000 hectares of vines over the last couple of years. Source: ABC Rural

When farmers first had a chance to enroll in ACRE last year, most ag economists and farm management specialists were cautious about telling producers to rush in to their Farm Service Agency to sign up for the Average Crop Revenue Election program. Source: AgricultureOnline

WOOSTER, Ohio — He had said it would be the end, and from the way it looks, it might just be. Mike Hogan, director of Ohio State University Extension in Carroll County, said in April his county would need to pass a .57 mill, five-year tax levy if it was to continue Extension services and 4-H. Unofficial election results show that it failed, with 57 percent of votes against the levy, and 43 percent in favor. Source: Farm and Dairy

A complaint against the Welsh badger culling trial, lodged in the European parliament by the Badger Trust, has been rejected.

The Federal Government says it will boost the number of allied health workers, including physiotherapists, dieticians, and optometrists, in rural and remote areas of Australia. Source: ABC Rural

Poll finds farm succession, young farmer programs growing in importance

SULLIVAN, Ohio –The Black River FFA went bowling Jan. 24 at Strike Out Lanes in Wellington. On Jan. 28, they went to the Elms Nursing Home in Wellington and played bingo with the residents. Source: Farm and Dairy

Farmers who put up new buildings may face a new levy under a change in planning regulations.

The Federal Government says recent rain though drought-affected areas doesn't necessarily mean an end to drought assistance funding.

With the wet year last year, many producers didn't get all of their tillage accomplished before they were forced out of the fields. Several concerns were brought up to manufacturers at the Iowa Power Farming show in Des Moines, Iowa. Hear what the experts have to say. Source: AgricultureOnline