…rose in April for the first time in a year. The organization says the increases stem from higher sugar, meat, and rice prices. The Food Price Index, which tracks the…
The California Kitchen: Avocado Crab Salad
…Meat 1 Avocado 8 T Mayonaise 2 T Lemon Pepper 3 T Cajun Spice TT S+P 2 T Olive Oil Listen to Albert prepare Avocado Crab Salad below. The California Kitchen:…
AgNet Weekly: NCBA Opposition to PRIME Act
The PRIME Act has once again made its way into Congress. Current law exempts custom slaughter of animals from federal inspection regulations, only if the meat is for personal, household,…
Almond Update: Almond Leadership Program Visits Central Valley Agribusinesses
…with a tour of the Central California Almond Growers Association in Kerman. Participants toured the facility and learned about the modern features of almond processing. Field Sales Representative for Bayer…
DPR Confirms Another Reduction in Pesticide Use in 2021
…interest.” Alfalfa, carrots, cotton, rice, walnuts, pistachios, processing tomatoes, and peach and nectarines are also in that category. Collectively, commodities of interest represent 72 percent of the total amount of…
Food Prices Drop Slightly from January and February
…in March 2022. The marginal decline in February reflected significant drops in the price indices of vegetable oils and dairy together with smaller drops in cereals and meat indices. The…
New ‘Product of USA’ Labeling Proposal from USDA
…label, so long as the meat was processed in an American facility. That practice created unfair advantages for foreign meat and resulted in confusion among consumers. USDA had conducted a…
Chicken Leads U.S. Per Person Availability of Meat
Chicken has become the nation’s most available meat source. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Image by Trương Hoàng Huy Ngân from Pixabay The supply of chicken available…
Grower Experience with Dried-on-the-Vine Raisin Varieties
…Raisins may not be fully dry ahead of fall rains, which would require additional processing steps. “But nevertheless, even as we work through some of these issues, our yields on…
ARS Scientists Improve Nutrients Adding Value to Rice Crop
Improvements to a worldwide food staple. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Steamed rice and meat dish Photo by Dragne Marius on Unsplash Rice, already the primary staple…
VofV: Stuart Woolf Talks Agtech from Apple Computers to Almonds
…and soil health to name a few ─ Woolf says there is one area of innovation he and his team have an eye on: data processing. His take makes this…
AgNet News Hour: Tuesday, 02-07-23
…of Water Resources, information on resources available to producers who have suffered losses related to flooding, and what to expect from the state’s processing tomato industry in 2023. Tune in…
House Agriculture Committee Announces Subcommittee Chairs
…Milk Marketing Orders (FMMO); USDA implementation of the Packers and Stockyards Act including recent and forthcoming rulemakings; Ongoing efforts to increase and diversify meat and poultry processing capacity; Programs designed…
Wings on the Menu for the Big Game
…Chicken Council Cooking the whole bird was trendy in the 1960s and 1970s, but in the 1980s, U.S. consumers started preferring boneless-skinless breast meat, and wings became an inexpensive byproduct…