…the increasing profitability of large farms limit the role of midsize farms in modern agriculture. During the same period, the number of large farms more than doubled. The data also…
Scientists Work to Define Threat from Palm Pest
…Albert Keck, who runs Hadley Date Farms in Thermal and chairs the California Date Commission, attended last week’s meeting and described date growers as “very concerned.” “We don’t want the…
USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
…for small livestock operations, like the dairy farms or small beef farms common in Pennsylvania, will help ensure that livestock operations of varying scales and across the country have an…
Funding to Ensure Access to Needed Veterinary Services
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded more than $4.3 million to 48 American veterinarians to help repay a portion of their veterinary…
Canada Investigating Bovine Tuberculosis
…from a U.S. Department of Agriculture notice in September that a cow from Alberta tested positive for bovine TB at a U.S. slaughter plant. This is the 10th confirmed case…
Lab System Aims to Protect State’s Livestock
…expensive—outbreak of avian influenza, with millions of birds depopulated. Cutler said California poultry farms avoided a catastrophe thanks in large part to the work of the California Animal Health and…
Food and Forestry Research and Development Projects
…federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). “I offer my sincere congratulations to these recipients who have demonstrated that their ideas…
Calls for New Relief Provisions in Next Farm Bill
…Bill. Very few farms have signed up for the Whole Farm Revenue Protection Program which is designed to help smaller and more diversified farms. Those farms also haven’t signed up…
Agri View: World’s Best
…few years back. Although he farms in the county that borders the one where I live, I have never met Mr. Dowdy but I do read of his accomplishments. How…
NMPF Pres. Commemorates Centennial / Sets Path for Future
…with promotional organizations Dairy Management Inc. and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, as well as the U.S. Dairy Export Council. National Milk and the dairy industry as a whole…
Enrollment Period for Safety Net Coverage in 2017
Dolcini U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Val Dolcini announced that producers on farms with base acres under the safety net programs established by the 2014…
Changing Organization and Well-Being of Midsize Farms
…an important link in the U.S. chain of family farms; many are the result of successful small commercial farms that grew in size. The number of midsize farms declined by…
World Wildlife Numbers Down Since 1970
…is threatening wildlife by clearing land for farms and cities, while other factors include pollution, invasive species, hunting and climate change. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….
Future of Our Agricultural Community
…Department of Food and Agriculture, and on California farms, and in organizations throughout our agricultural community, that one, simple fact urges us all to prepare now for a future that…