…conditions, greatly enhancing data collection and forecast accuracy. All of the data is free and available online. Producers, businesses and state and federal agencies use forecasts in many ways. “Earlier…
Grants to Help Ag Producers Increase Value of Their Products
…billion in investments to over 40,000 local and regional food businesses and infrastructure projects since between 2009. Industry data estimates that U.S. local food sales totaled at least $12 billion…
Almond Board: Nitrogen and ILRP
…in irrigation water, cover crops, compost and other sources, as well as with data from leaf sampling. All of this data is then used to get a total nitrogen fertilizer…
Agri View: 2016 Farm Outlook
…affect fruit/nut, vegetable cotton, and rice production going forward (for more information, see the ERS drought page). See data on value of crop production and crop cash receipts. Chart data…
Agri View: El Niño
…a return to El Niño happen to use the exact same data set for the initial conditions. The prediction models are different, so they react to the initial data differently,…
Record Growth in U.S. Organic Producers
…U.S. producers and handlers. The data announced today are publicly available as part of the recently launchedOrganic Integrity Database, a modernized system for tracking certified organic operations. In the past,…
Pork Producers Support ‘CARB’ Recommendations
…delivered in feed and water. Additionally, the pork industry has invested more than $6 million to collect data related to and conduct research on the resistance issue, including on alternative…
Agri View: Feral Hog Efforts
…aimed at getting more precise data about the cost of feral hog damage in specific regions. Rob Pavey/SPECIAL – About 65 farmers, landowners and sportsmen attended a Feral Hog Management…
2016 Award Winners for Agriculture, Technology
…developing a product that gathers data on more than 350,000 calls per day to produce insights that not only identify the data, but establish how that data was produced, the…
Red-cedar’s Impact on Prairie Chickens
…data proving that female lesser prairie-chickens avoid grasslands when trees are present. The study, highlighted in a Science to Solutions report by the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative (LPCI), underscores the importance…
Funding Supports Local Food and Specialty Crops
…for research projects that address challenges and opportunities in marketing, transporting, and distributing U.S. agricultural products domestically and internationally. USDA data show that specialty crop sales exceed $83 billion per…
Healthier Shopping
…conducting another in-store trial developed by Niculescu, which uses mirrors placed in shopping carts as a subtle nudge to consumers toward lower-calorie choices. They expect to have data in hand…
Almond Growers to Play Critical Role in Solving Bee Loss Puzzle
…toxicity studies. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is now requiring data on the possible effects of these materials on young, developing bees in the hive. It will take time to…
Napa’s New Winery Compliance Rules Preceding Strict Enforcement
…phase will require all wineries to report their annual production and grape sourcing data to the County. To properly ascertain this data the County will evaluate a winery’s production reports…