…model—the Future Agricultural Resources Model (FARM)—to simulate agricultural markets in 2050 under a range of different scenarios. In trying to project future global agricultural production and resource use decisions given…
Chairman Conaway Statement on Agreement Reached at 10th WTO Ministerial Conference
…Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. “I appreciate the efforts of Ambassador Froman and his team in working to put an end to foreign export subsidies. “The agreement reached in Nairobi was…
Agri View: Trade Talks and Cuba
…leading suppliers of agricultural imports, the updated U.S. policy approach to Cuba provides few if any opportunities for Cuba to export agricultural products to the United States. Over the next…
Appropriations Bill Falls Short for Farmers While Tax Bill Offers Hope
…our corn in 2015, and it is important that we will avoid the negative impacts on that and other corn markets which retaliation by Mexico and Canada would have brought…
Cottonseed Discussed on Capitol Hill
…farmers out of world markets,” said Conaway. “Cotton farmers are getting hit the hardest right now and they are doing all they can just to hold on without access to…
UC Davis Cracks the Walnut Genome
…of plant breeder Chuck Leslie, cooperates with a large number of research partners to develop new walnut varieties. Walnuts a top export crop for California The walnut variety Chandler was…
New Software Measures Agriculture’s Carbon Footprint
…tools. Chambers is with the Energy and Environmental Markets Team of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). NRCS joined forces with Colorado State University to build the tools. California’s Department…
Almond Industry Effort for Innovation and Sustainability
…markets like those under California’s cap-and-trade program,” Waycott said. The project builds on nearly ten years of funding by the Almond Board of California to improve nitrogen management and better…
National Milk Producers Federation on WTO COOL Tariffs
…dairy sales to two of the U.S.’s largest export markets. The WTO ruled against the U.S. meat labeling program last spring, saying Canada and Mexico had the right to respond…
NCBA on WTO COOL Tariffs
…a failure on all accounts; it has cost our livestock industry billions in implementation, it has violated our trade agreements with two of our largest export markets, it has resulted…
National Pork Producers Council on Tariff Announcement
…President Dr. Ron Prestage, a veterinarian and pork producer from Camden, S.C. “Retaliation has been authorized, and our exports to the No. 1 and No. 2 markets will suffer and…
USDA Announces 2016 Agricultural Outlook Forum
…outbreak. Demographics are also changing in rural America and across farm households. Meanwhile, technology is rapidly opening new applications for producers and throughout the marketing chain, and new markets are…
USDA Begins 49th Enrollment Period for the Conservation Reserve Program
…farmers and ranchers; strengthening risk management tools; expanding access to rural credit; funding critical research; establishing innovative public-private conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure,…
Climate Change Report – USDA
…world, as well as by changing export demand, and transportation, processing, storage, infrastructure that enable global trade. Climate risks to food security increase as the magnitude and rate of climate…