…now electronically share the “common information” with other office locations. FSA Administrator Val Dolcini says “if you file your report at one location, the data that’s important to both FSA…
USDA Launches Ag Resource Management Survey
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is beginning to collect data from more than 100,000 farmers and ranchers for the annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey. The survey looks at all aspects…
USDA Unveils New Improvement to Streamline Crop Reporting
…insurance companies, all working to streamline the information collected from farmers and ranchers who participate in USDA programs. “If you file your report at one location, the data that’s important…
Agri View: Problem for Honeybees
…until 2008 that it was found killing honeybees in the San Francisco area. Some parasitized bees were also confirmed in samples from South Dakota, but so far, no other data…
Agri View: Different Crops
…including cereal, alcohol, sweeteners, and byproduct feeds. ERS offers analysis and data that include: More than 90 million acres of land are planted to corn, with the majority of the…
Almond Board: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Partnership
…test sites have the most potential.” While groundwater is coming under management by the state of California through the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, research and data is critically needed to…
Monsanto Issues Statement on Glyphosate Renewal in EU
…of an agricultural product ever conducted. The risk assessment conducted by Germany and reviewed by the European Food Safety Agency included more than 90,000 pages of data. It also had…
California Walnut Nursery Sales Report
…on the number of walnut trees sold for new plantings. This report summarizes data supplied by California nurseries throughout the State who sold to walnut growers for commercial plantings. Results…
California Walnut Acreage Report
…non-bearing, and total. Detailed data by variety, year planted, and county – as voluntarily reported by walnut growers and maintained in the NASS database. With perfect information, the estimated walnut…
Bayer Releases More Info on Monsanto Bid
…new industrial revolution, and the company of the future won’t just be selling seeds and chemicals. He says it will incorporate seeds, chemicals and data as a service as well….
Agri View: Consumers Choice
…in all its forms is by far the most widely purchased beef item in the US at both the retail and foodservice segments. Recent data reveal how important the product…
Study Reaffirms GMO Safety
…maize (corn), soybean, and cotton, which account for almost all commercial GE crops to date. “We dug deeply into the literature to take a fresh look at the data on…
Agri View: Women Farm Operators
…farmers operated 2.1 million farms. Like the previous agriculture census, the 2012 Census of Agriculture collected data on up to three operators per farm. Whether counting only principal operators (the…
Sustainable Groundwater Management Plans Approved by CWC
…provisions as data collection, reporting requirements, descriptions of current and historical groundwater conditions, the elements of the “water budgets” that each plan must include, and the criteria by which an…