…the next federal fiscal year resumes on Oct. 1. “Some of our farming and ranching customers are experiencing challenges due to market conditions and have been on a wait list…
USDA Sharply Revises Farm Income Forecasts
…or smaller operations where farming is reported as the operator’s primary occupation (labeled “intermediate”).Approximately 10 percent of U.S. farms are commercial and 31 percent are intermediate. “Residence farms” comprise the…
Falling Food Prices Hurt Farm Belt
…products like raw milk, cheese, and cattle, they’re slashing spending. In turn, that creates a ripple effect to companies like John Deere, who are cutting production due to the farming…
Making it Easier to Donate Excess Food
…do that but we can help offset that and that makes it better for everybody.” Brislain said he’s seen a lot of support for the donation programs from the farming…
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack on Farm Income Forecasts
…we will continue to ensure the availability of a strong safety net to keep them farming or ranching. “The estimates today also showed that debt to asset and debt to…
Agri View: Duck Eggs
…farming is changing. One reason is people are looking for, and buying, new and different kinds of foods. A friend of mine told me about a man and produces, and…
Agri View: Table Meat Farming
Everett Griner talks about a farmer raising table meat in today’s Agri View. Table Meat Farming I have had a good deal of material come to my desk recently about…
Agri View: What is a Farmer?
…all. It’s called hydroponic farming. The roots dangle in the water. The nutrients are fed to the roots in liquid form. Ultimately a crop is produced. The system is growing…
Farmer of the Year Contest
…centuries-old, family-run farms alive and thriving, as well as newcomers who may have just started out in farming or ranching. Timing All nominations must be received by January 31, 2017,…
Senator Toomey Announces Opposition to TPP
…the world’s population that lives outside the USA. In Pennsylvania, international trade accounts for nearly 200,000 jobs in our farming, manufacturing, and services sectors. Trade is often demonized, but if…
Agri View: Advancement of Farming
Everett Griner talks about how farming had advanced in the past one-hundred years and where it may go in the future in today’s Agri View. Advancement of Farming Did you…
Cancelling Atrazine Would Cost Farmers $2.5 Billion
…showed that farming without Atrazine would cost farmers an extra $59 per acre. That’s a large boost in costs when farm incomes have dropped 55 percent in the past two…
Cultivating the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
…Land Trust, Providence, R.I., $596,517 Clemson University, Clemson, S.C., $595,133 Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tenn., $470,083 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, $600,000 National Immigrant Farming Initiative, El Paso, Texas,…
Climate Smart Agriculture
…and Agriculture member Don Cameron, of Terranova Ranch, a diversified farming operation in the Central Valley. Researchers from Wageningen UR and the University of California also provided perspective. The Climate…