…USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is putting measures in place to help farmers and ranchers preserve and maintain farm land. Susan Carter has the report. USDA’S Conservation Soil Health Campagin…
Grocery Prices Increase Again
Ricky Volpe USDA food price economist Grocery prices are going up once again. The latest index shows the prices overall went up 1/2 a percent just in April with some…
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Highlights Recent Trade Breakthroughs with Mexico
…existing supply chains, adding to the economic strength of U.S. and Mexican agriculture. USDA is continuing to help America’s farmers and ranchers reach new markets and increase agricultural exports. In…
ARC and PLC Program Fruit, Vegetable and Wild Rice Provisions
…a double-cropping region as designated by the USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation. For additional information on fruit, vegetable and wild rice rules, visit www.fsa.usda.gov or contact your local USDA Service Center….
March Milk Production up 1.1 Percent
…percent from the January – March quarter last year. The average number of milk cows in the United States during the quarter was 9.22 million head. USDA: Milk Production Report…
Peanut Price Report
Released May 16, 2014, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Peanut Price Highlights Peanut prices received by farmers for all…
Winter Bee Losses Down, But Still Significant
…Significant Dr. Jeff Pettis, research leader at USDA’s Bee Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, talks about a bee summit meeting set for October 20th through the 21st in Washington, D.C. For…
USDA Video: This Week @ USDA May 16
…at some of the events and activities at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For more information and to tune in to the USDA “live” Bee Cam: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/u… http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/n… http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/main.htm http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/u……
See Honeybees at Work: USDA Launches BeeWatch
Click to visit the USDA’s 24/7 bee watch camera. At the ribbon cutting of the USDA Headquarters People’s Garden in April 2010 plans were already in place to install a…
USDA Announces Special Import Quota #14 for Upland Cotton
The Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced a special import quota for upland cotton that permits importation of a quantity of upland cotton equal to one week’s domestic…
Yearly Survey Shows Better Results for Pollinators, but Losses Remain Significant
…related to pollinator loss and work to identify solutions. Additionally, today USDA launched the People’s Garden Apiary bee cam at the USDA headquarters in Washington, D.C. as an additional effort…
Vilsack Comments on Creating Undersecretary for Trade, and TPA
…speed deals through Congress without changes. Nebraska Senator and former USDA Secretary Mike Johanns told Vilsack that Vilsack could not outlast him on creating an Undersecretary for Trade. Vilsack Comments…
New Supply and Demand Forecast for Cotton Released
USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Gerry Bange looks at the new supply and demand forecasts for US cotton. New Supply and Demand Forecast for Cotton…
A Reminder for All California Farmers and Ranchers
…the success of American agriculture. Additional resources for drought relief can be found by going to the USDA website at www.usda.gov/drought and the California Department of Agriculture website at www.cdfa.ca.gov/drought….