…at the Minnesota State Fair will ultimately conclude at the 90th National FFA Convention and Expo being held in Indianapolis later this month. Listen to the interview below. Cheyenne Edmundson…
Water Board OKs Hike in Water Quality Fees
…a budget change proposal considered by a Senate budget subcommittee in 2016. The BCP noted that pending in June 2015 were 385 applications, 304 registrations, 578 petitions and 1,626 expired…
Record Crop Value in Sacramento County
…44 percent from 2015. Another significant contribution to the overall value was nursery stock which experienced an increase of 29 percent from the year before. Valued at nearly $31 million,…
Organic Field Crop Production Numbers Rising
…value of organic field crop sales totaled up to more than $762 million in 2016, more than $100 million dollars higher than in 2015. Organic corn had the most acres…
NMPF Supports Effort to Bring Clarity to EPA’s Waters of the U.S. Regulation
…process behind the controversial 2015 Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule. NMPF provided comments today to EPA in support of rescinding the 2015 rule so the agency can initiate a…
2016 Sales of U.S. Certified Organic Agricultural Production Up
…up 23 percent from $6.2 billion in 2015. During the same year, the number of certified organic farms in the country increased 11 percent to 14,217, and the number of…
California Dairy Production Increases from Last Year
…was the highest milk producer, with more than 27 percent of the state’s milk production. Merced County was ranked second with an increase in production over 15 percent from 2015….
Funding to Recruit and Educate a More Diverse Agricultural Workforce
…involve scholarships to support recruiting, engaging, retaining, mentoring, and training of committed, eligible multicultural scholars. Eligible applicants include land-grant institutions, colleges and universities with significant minority enrollments and the capacity…
California Animal Welfare Regulations Increasing?
…be cage-free. If passed, California would be one of only two states to have such regulations on farm animal welfare. Proposition 2, which was put into effect in 2015, already…
USDA Forecasts Increase in Farm Income
…inventories as part of prior-year income. However, that predicted increase is still lower than every year from 2010 to 2015. During that period, net farm income peaked in 2013 $131.3…
Crop Insurance Industry Responds to GOA Report
The crop insurance industry is calling a report by the Government Accountability Office “disheartening.” The GAO last week recommended to Congress that it considers directing the Department of Agriculture to…
Raisin Growers Must ‘Opt-in’ to Class Action Lawsuit
…Reserve Class Action. Bob F. Hansen and other family members originally filed the class action lawsuit on August 26, 2015, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the USDA raisin…
GAO Recommends Lowering Crop Insurance Expected Rate of Return
…information in the study for 2009 through 2015, the reasonable rate of return declined, averaging 9.6 percent. By reducing the expected rate of return, GAO says the federal crop insurance…
Disease Resistant Strawberry Research Gets Funding Boost
…6 tons per acre in the 1950s to 30 tons per acre today. Knapp took over directorship of the program in 2015. He and his team are working to develop…
