…purchased services) use increasing and labor/land input use decreasing. The output mix has changed as well, with crop production growing faster than livestock production. See the ERS report,Agricultural Productivity Growth…
The Western View: Indoor Vertical Farming
…of soil and is fed a nutrient mist. The problem, of course, is these plants need light to grow, and providing enough light has always been cost-prohibitive in greenhouses. But…
Agri View: Water Management
…systems and water management practices can help maintain farm profitability in an era of increasingly limited and more costly water supplies. Improved on-farm water management, combined with institutional measures improving…
Fictitious Pickups Cost Consumer Too
Recent agriculture thefts in the state called fictitious pickups have brought attention to criminals using the Internet to impersonate trucking companies and carryout thefts. Fictitious Pickups Cost Consumer Too Butte…
Stallman Ready to Pass the Gavel – #AFBF16
…stand to make farming and ranching more productive, less costly, less labor-dependent and even better for the environment.” Stallman urged members to share their stories with the world, on social…
USDA Awards $3 Million for Robotics Research
…– The goal of this project is to develop theoretical and technological tools that will enable the design, optimization, prototyping and field-testing of consistently high-throughput, cost-effective mechanized harvesting systems for…
Agriculture Labor Seeing Competitive Trend
…diversification, of course, has some additional benefits. USDA Labor Information For general information regarding labor laws enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor, see the publication Employment Law Guide: Laws,…
Stallman to Farmers and Ranchers: Stand Up and Be Counted
…make farming and ranching more productive, less costly, less labor-dependent and even better for the environment.” Stallman urged members to share their stories with the world, on social media and…
Vilsack Urges Congress to Pass Wildfire Funding Fix
…Forest Service budget subsumed by firefighting costs. The cost of the Forest Service’s wildfire suppression reached a record $243 million in a one-week period during the height of suppression activity…
Dairy Digesters Beneficial to Control Greenhouse Gasses
…Greenhouse Gas Reduction Cost-Benefit Analysis California’s Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) commits California to reducing state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. A key aspect…
Agri View: Migrant Trends
…Department of Labor. The Human Cost of Food: Farm workers lives, labor and advocacy Edited by Charles D. Thompson and Melinda Wiggings Working Poor: Farm workers in the United States…
Agriculture Graduate Shortage
…15%, while 12% of the openings will be in education, communication, and governmental services. The projections in this report are based on data from several sources. The Bureau of Labor…
Field Jobs Will Require Technical Machines
Automation could help the labor challenges in California but most of the field jobs would take very technical machines to do the work. Field Jobs Will Require Technical Machines California…
Bumblebee Intelligence
…between artificial flowers that contain food and others that don’t. Roles within a bee colony are tightly regulated with sterile female bees, known as worker bees, performing the labor within…