…would cost if there were no refrigeration service? Or say a Georgia grown watermelon sold in Montana. Refrigerated railroad cars were first build in the 1870’s. They helped make the…
Farm Profits and Adoption of Precision Agriculture
…— Hired labor costs are 60 to 70 percent lower with any of the three PA technologies on small corn farms (140-400 cropland acres), while hired labor costs are higher…
Agri View: Controlling Diseases
…paid out thirty billion dollars to control Foot and Mouth disease. Well now, almost seven years later, sources studying the animal diseases say the pathogens that cause such costly outbreaks…
Funding for Organic Agriculture Research, Education-Extension Projects
…standards to grow and market high quality organic products. Eligible entities include land-grant and other research universities, federal agencies, national laboratories, state agricultural experiment stations and research foundations and other…
Agri View: Say Cheese!
…farmers but twenty millions dollars’ worth. That’s what it will cost. That is only a small bit of relief. The National Milk Producers is asking the purchase be made for…
Succession Plans can Assure Farms Stay in the Family
Exactly how a family farm or ranch will be transferred from one generation to the next can be costly, confusing and difficult. Some families address this challenge as soon as…
Trade Wars Could Cost California 640,000 Jobs
…anti-trade, but the LA Times focuses on the steeper opposition by Trump, estimating the cost of Trump fulfilling his campaign promises against trade if elected. Los Angeles would lose an…
U.S – Mexico Establish Committee to Support Organic Trade Partnership
…allowing organic products certified in one country to be sold as organic in each participating market, they reduce the cost of duplicative certifications, fees and inspections. In the past six…
Western View: The Most Dangerous Highway?
…tomato trucks competing with the cotton trucks and the grapes heading to the juicer, then you add the farm labor vans heading off to the fields or home from a…
NPPC Concerned About Rules On Livestock Contracts
…conducted by Informa Economics, which found they would have cost the U.S. pork industry more than $330 million annually. (An update of the analysis found that today it would cost…
Demo Shows Orchard Recycling Options
…growers. Holtz also hopes that a carbon credit can be created and given to growers who use this practice. That credit could offset some of the cost of orchard recycling….
Olive Production Shifts as Result of Mechanization
…of new plantings. Not only have those plantings reduced labor costs, but growers also have the ability to produce very high-quality olive oil on a large scale, said Gregg Kelley,…
RFA Fishing Sponsorship Will Promote Ethanol
…power boost, while being the lowest-cost, cleanest-burning, biodegradable fuel on the planet.” Bass Pro Shops Crappiemasters Owner and President Brian Sowers said, “This is a huge opportunity to partner with…
Slight Decrease in Citrus Crop Forecast
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