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BLM urged to put more leasing protest data online

By Linsey Isaacs

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages 245 million acres in the West, promised earlier this year to seek m

Rethinking OSHA exemption for farms

By Jim Morris and Howard Berkes

Most farms are exempt from federal workplace safety rules. Given ongoing grain entrapment problems, some say they shouldn't be.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Agriculture":

"… els to a record 10.93 billion bushels, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. With growth has come tragedy: worker entrapment deaths in corn or other …"