…and soil health to name a few ─ Woolf says there is one area of innovation he and his team have an eye on: data processing. His take makes this…
Study Shows Rotational Grazing Adoption Varies by Region
A study sheds light on grazing practices around the nation. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Data published Monday by USDA’s Economic Research Service shows rotational grazing adoption…
2022 Census of Agriculture Due Soon
…Title 7 USC 2204(g) Public Law 105-113. The same law requires NASS to keep all individual operations’ information confidential, use the data for statistical purposes only, and publish the data…
SWP Allocation Increased to 30 Percent After Weeks of Storms
…SWP allocation may be updated as assessments of California’s water supplies will incorporate snowpack data beginning in February. So far, the California snowpack is well above 200 percent of normal…
Substantial Consolidation in Retail Food Market Since 1990
…over the last three decades, according to data from USDA’s Economic Research Service. Market concentration, as measured by the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, is a measure of the extent to which market…
World’s First Agriculture-Focused Satellite Launches
…the next three years. The EOS Data Analytics project is the world’s first agriculture-focused satellite constellation providing the industry with high-quality data to support efficient and sustainable practices. Images obtained…
Collaboration Critical for Advancing the Raisin Industry
…if this or that agency could come up with some data or an answer, we’d be better off,’” Hubbell said. “We’re going to go out and try to find the…
2022 Census of Agriculture Underway
…Agriculture this November. A paper questionnaire will follow in December. Taken once every five years, the Census of Agriculture is the nation’s only comprehensive and impartial agriculture data for every…
NASS 2021 Organic Survey Results
…states for value of organic sales. “The continual rise in interest for updated organics data is consistent with the growth of this important sector,” said NASS Administrator Hubert Hamer. “These…
Almond Update: Almond Acreage Drops Amidst Challenges
…August 31 was estimated at 1.64 million acres. Data for the same period last year showed 1.66 million acres. “The drop was accounted for in the non-bearing acres, which then…
AFBF Says Check Rural Broadband Map
…a huge step from where we used to be where broadband data availability was based off of census block level data. American Farm Bureau was a strong proponent of the…
VofV: Eurofins U.S. Chief Science Officer Joelle Mosso on Why Testing Can’t Solve Food Safety Problems
…safety really, really hard to handle.” The discussion shifts toward the benefits and limitations of testing. Mosso notes that the value of data collected from testing is in the utilization…
Winter Storm Brings Rain and Snow, But Drought Concerns Remain
…to March winter wet season.” The Data Exchange Center from the California Department of Water Resources also shows that the statewide snowpack is in a strong position as of December…
VofV: Trimble’s Mike Dentinger on Strategies to Reach the Finish Line with Global Harvest Automation
…out more at WGA.com. As the data for the next edition of Western Growers’ Global Harvest Automation Report are being crunched, Mike Dentinger, the Director of AG OEM Development at…