…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
…of all Americans from farms to the kitchen table and from the air we breathe to the energy that powers our country. Learn more about the many ways USDA scientists…
Canada Investigating Bovine Tuberculosis
Around 30 farms in southeastern Alberta, Canada are under quarantine as Canada attempts to track down cattle exposed to bovine tuberculosis (TB). CBC News of Canada reports the investigation stems…
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
…and development touching the lives of all Americans from farms to the kitchen table and from the air we breathe to the energy that powers our country. Learn more about…
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
…heart push their agenda at our expense,” he said. The dairy farming landscape – and the world outside of it – have changed considerably, Mulhern began. The numbers of farms…
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…