ANNAPOLIS — Maryland residents who earn more than $100,000 annually will pay more income taxes and many will pay higher fees to flush their toilets under new laws that took effect Sunday. Under the income-tax law, single taxpayers with an ...

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Farmers who want to keep the family farm in the family and in business when the owner dies hope that a new law will do just that for agricultural homesteads in Maryland. The Family Farm Preservation Act signed recently by ...

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PROGRESS, Miss. — It looks like the perfect, bucolic life — neat barns and a rustic store, cows grazing peacefully under the trees beside a pond, a sprawling house just across the road, and the third and fourth generation of ...

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FREDERICK — The West Frederick Farmers Market was recently voted third favorite market in the state and 15th in the nation in the American Farmland Trust’s America’s Favorite Farmers Markets contest for 2011. The market, held Saturday on Baughman’s Lane ...

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Old-fashioned apples are back in fashion. After nearly disappearing from the marketplace, apple varieties that were popular decades or even centuries ago are making a resurgence. The varieties, known as antique or heirloom apples, number in the thousands and carry ...

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Braden Janowski has never planted seeds or brought in a harvest. He doesn’t even own overalls. Yet when 430 acres of Michigan cornfields was auctioned last summer, it was Janowski, a brash, 33-year-old software executive, who made the winning bid. ...

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Running a farm with 400,000 chickens that produce 25,000 to 30,000 eggs a day requires a lot of electricity. Don Lippy, owner of Sunnyside Farms Inc. in Westminster, said the farm’s total electrical bill for 2010 was about $150,000. Now, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley will testify in support of legislation that would reduce Maryland’s estate tax for family farms. Shaun Adamec, O’Malley’s spokesman, said Friday the governor feels strongly that the measure will help preserve family farming in ...

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HAMDEN, Conn. — Despite tough financial times following the worst recession in decades, some states continue to spend millions of dollars to preserve American farmland and stem its rapid loss to development and suburban sprawl. Advocates say the preservation efforts ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Thousands of people likely were sickened by salmonella-contaminated eggs from two Iowa companies last summer, but lawyers said far fewer have the proof needed for a successful lawsuit and most cases filed will be settled out ...

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