…issue at a roundtable with USFS employees. Last month, Secretary Perdue discussed the 2017 wildfire season while touring damage from the Creek Fire, that ravaged Los Angeles County last December….
Broadband Investment and Section 199A Tax Code Fix in Omnibus Applauded by Perdue
…I applaud Congress for hearing their voice.” Background The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed in December of 2017 was meant to spur economic growth across the entire American economy,…
Manage Almonds to Full Potential, Despite Freeze Damage
Determining exactly what freeze damage the almond industry will see from frigid temperatures during bloom won’t be possible until the end of the season, if at all. Yara’s Director of…
Livestock Haulers Get Another ELD Waiver
…Logging Devices, or ELDs, by December of last year. In September of 2017, NPPC petitioned the agency for a waiver or exemption from the requirement, and the DOT handed down…
Secretary Perdue Supports Agriculture Exemption Extension for ELD Mandate
…commodities, including plants and animals, would have been at risk of perishing before they reached their destination.” The ELD mandate initially went into effect in December 2017. The original extension…
Ag Producer Sentiment Improves; but Uncertainty about the Future of NAFTA Looms
…December 2017. Figure 1. Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, October 2015-February 2018. While the Ag Economy Barometer reached a survey high of more than 150 points back in January 2017,…
Farm City Newsday Tuesday, 03-06-18
…or private pesticide treatments done by the California Department of Food and Agriculture and there is still time for almond trees during bloom to minimize freeze damage. @AgProcessors @Cotton1785 @thealmonddoctor…
NCC Survey Suggests U.S. Producers to Plant 13.1 Million Acres of Cotton in 2018
…generates a cotton crop of 19.4 million bales, with 18.7 million upland bales and 744,000 ELS bales. The NCC questionnaire, mailed in mid-December 2017 to producers across the 17-state Cotton…
New Records for U.S. Beef Export Value, Pork Export Volume in 2017
…This had a tremendous impact on carcass value.” For December only, beef export value was up 9 percent from a year ago to $672.9 million – the second-highest of 2017…
January Ag Economy Barometer Results
…producers from across the U.S. indicated that the measure of producer sentiment climbed to 135 points at the beginning of 2018, up nine points from December’s 126. Organizers say the…
Rural Mainstreet Index Declines
The Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index declined slightly in January from December’s weak reading, remaining below growth neutral. However, organizers say the monthly survey of rural bank CEO’s in the…
Second Snow Survey Yields Concerning Measurements
…showed very little snowpack after a significantly dry December and measured only three percent of the average. The weather forecast for much of California also shows warmer than average temperatures…
California Avocado Crop Forecast Almost Double 2017 Harvest
…counties. The Thomas fire, which began on December 4 and burned more than 280,000 acres over than a month, was the largest wildfire in recorded California history. Wind and mudslides…
Agri View: Banner Pecan Nut Year
…production in the west. In December, the estimate of the final harvest in the western states was expected to be a new record. New Mexico’s crop alone was pegged at…