U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue applauded the removal of a burdensome regulation that has long plagued family farms. The rule requiring producers to obtain Data Universal Number System (DUNS)…
Nationwide Reveals Most Common Agribusiness Insurance Claims
…sharing the data, the company hopes “to help agribusiness owners recognize areas of their operation that may need increased safety precautions.” Other top agribusiness claims include falls, food-related claims, animal…
Organic Produce Has Strong First Quarter
…commodities saw flat or declining sales volumes. Nielsen data indicates that over 80 percent of organic produce dollars is derived from UPC items such as packaged salads and berries. Conventional…
American Farmland Trust Study: U.S. Farmland Shrinking
…found that of the 31 million acres lost in that time, 11 million of those acres were among the best farmland in the nation. The data found that 62 percent…
Report Shows Improvements in Animal Welfare, Quality and Sustainability
…Stewardship Review, funded by the Beef Checkoff and completed in late 2017, compiles data collected from cattlemen and women across the country. The first survey, completed in 2010, set a…
EPA Waivers Lower Ethanol Production Six Percent
…waivers it’s granted and how much blending volume those exemptions effectively erased. An RFA analysis of EPA database information shows, “The EPA data strongly implies that small refiner exemptions have…
RFA to CARB: Ethanol Plays a Key Role in LCFS Success Story
…help facilitate achievement of future LCFS goals by accelerating and maximizing the decarbonization of remaining liquid transportation fuels,” RFA wrote in comments. CARB data show that ethanol is responsible for…
USDA Rural Development Innovation Center Launches Interactive Webpage
…rural prosperity through strategic partnerships and capacity-building, data analytics and evaluation, and regulatory reform. In April 2017, President Donald J. Trump established the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural…
Agricultural Broadband Bill Important Milestone, Farm Bureau Says
…Even so, all that data has to be processed somewhere, and to do that farmers need high-speed connections that link their equipment to far-off data centers. The American Farm Bureau…
Farmers and Ranchers: Time Running Out to Complete the 2017 Census of Agriculture
…the Census return rate is rising every day,” said NASS Census and Survey Division Director Barbara Rater. “The stronger the response, the stronger the data. The stronger the data, the…
California Grape Acreage Report, 2017 Summary
…total. Detailed data by variety, and year planted — as voluntarily reported by grape growers and maintained in our database. With perfect information, the estimated grape acreage and the detailed…
Food Waste Resonates Beyond the Trash Bin
…years of available food survey data. Zach Conrad, a postdoctoral nutritionist with the ARS Grand Forks (North Dakota) Human Nutrition Research Center, together with fellow nutritionist Lisa Jahns and colleagues…
National Sorghum Producers Disappointed in China Antidumping Determination
…have not caused any injury to China’s sorghum industry. NSP says it has submitted “several thousand pages of data demonstrating conclusively that U.S. sorghum is neither dumped nor causing any…
Providing Perspective on the Annual Dirty Dozen List
…Thorne. According to sampling data from the United States Department of Agriculture and the Federal Food and Drug Administration, 99 percent of residues are well below the safety standards established…