…the loop — how to adjust irrigation based on the aerial image data,” Goldberg said. “This co-robotics system is the next generation of precision agriculture.” The robots have to be…
House Agriculture Committee Meets
…oilseeds, peanuts, pulse crops, rice, soybeans, sugar, wheat, and wool; the Commodity Credit Corporation; risk management policies and statutes, including Federal Crop Insurance; producer data and privacy issues. Rep. Rick…
Unified Bee Health Data Key to Finding Trends
…bee health data from a whole bunch of different sources and then put it together in sort of a centralized database so that we can use human epidemiological approaches to…
Statistics Available for California Crop Year 2015
…Export reports are typically published within the corresponding crop year report. While data is made available throughout the year, crop year and export reports are published typically about one year…
USDA NASS Conducting Certified Organic Survey
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is conducting the 2016 Certified Organic Survey to gather new data on certified organic crops and livestock commodities in…
40 Percent of Farms Managed by Multiple Operators
New data released last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows nearly 40 percent of all U.S. farms are managed by more than one operator. USDA’s Economic Research Service…
Beekeepers, Farmers Prepare for Pollination
…that they are foraging on the cover crops.” “Based on hard data and anecdotal evidence, forage on the landscape—whether it be a California almond orchard or pasture in North Dakota—is…
Americans to Eat 1.33 Billion Chicken Wings
…dramatically the week of the Super Bowl. Data shows that consumers stock up the week before, too, according to Nielsen Perishables Group FreshFacts® data. More information For more information on…
Smart Phone App Balances Conservation and Production
…a centralized, open access database and becomes part of a data system that in the future will identify management options for sites having similar topography, soils, and climatic conditions, Herrick…
Geneticist Edward Buckler Awarded First NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
…He and his group also have addressed other agricultural traits crucial to improving food security such as local adaptation, drought tolerance, and disease resistance. As a champion of open data…
Maintaining Pork Exports to Canada, Mexico Critical
…services, accounting for more than one-third of total U.S. exports, adding $80 billion to the U.S. economy and supporting more than 3 million American jobs, according to data from the…
Fourth Quarter 2016 Farm Lending Slows
…outstanding farm sector debt at commercial banks continued to rise, but at a slower pace. Survey data indicated outstanding debt increased five percent from a year ago. The Fed attributed…
Georgia Agriculture Under Former Governor Sonny Perdue
…of Georgia in 2003, the state saw an increase in agricultural sales under Perdue’s watch. In 2002, USDA Data shows 49,000 farms made $4.9 billion in sales. By 2012, the…
Role of Fossil Fuels in the U.S. Food System and the American Diet
…structure of the ERS Food Dollar accounts. The result is a first-of-its-kind U.S. environmentally extended input-output data system and model called the Food Environment Data System (FEDS). We conduct regression…