Everett Griner talks about beef, pork and chicken prices still rising in today’s Agri View. Meat Prices Up…
Cold Storage Report
…up 1 percent from a year ago. Total frozen vegetable stocks were up 15 percent from last month and up 6 percent from a year ago. Total red meat supplies…
Weekly Column: Farm to School Programs Create New Opportunities for Farmers
…ages will dig up lessons in school gardens, visit farms, harvest pumpkins, and don hair nets for tours of processing facilities. Science teachers – and English, math, and social studies…
Merced County Farm Bureau Hosting the 3rd Annual FARM2U Day
…works within the food supply chain or with natural resources. Specific topics will include: water, plant production, livestock production, processing, nutrition and safety. For some of these students in attendance…
USDA Helps Deliver the Latest in Innovative Agricultural Methods to Small, Socially Disadvantaged Agricultural Producers
…training on growing practices, crop planning, processing and post-harvest handling to immigrant and refugee farmers and cooperatives. Hawaii The Kohala Center, Inc. – $197,219; To provide technical assistance to the…
Nation’s Ag Co-ops Set Record for Annual Sales and Income
…climbed by almost 7,000 in 2013, to 136,000, up 5 percent from 2012. Counting seasonal employees, ag co-ops employ 191,000 people. In addition to marketing and processing their members’ crops…
USDA Awards Over $52 Million in Grants to Grow Organic and Local Food Economies
…the commercial viability of small to medium scale farmers, allowing wholesalers to source locally and increasing consumer access to local, sustainable, and healthy meat. USDA’s AMS awarded over $27 million…
USDA Announces 2014-Crop Sugar Loan Rates and FY 2015 Sugar Program Provisions
…The refined beet sugar processing regions and applicable 2014-crop (FY 2015) loan rates in cents per pound of refined beet sugar are: Michigan and Ohio – 25.32 Minnesota and the…
Red Meat Production Down 10 Percent From Last Year
Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 3.80 billion pounds in August, down 10 percent from the 4.20 billion pounds produced in August 2013. Beef production, at 2.02…
Agri View: Added Flavor
Everett Griner talks about how why our meat taste different in our meat in today’s Agri View. Added Flavor…
AgNeTVideo: Interview With Nicole Dominguez, Archer Daniels Midland
Archer Daniels Midland Company turn crops into renewable products that meet the demands of a growing world. At more than 270 processing plants, they convert corn, oilseeds, wheat and cocoa…
2014 California Processing Tomato Report
…the Processing Tomato Advisory Board show that shipments through August 23, 2014 are running 13.7 percent above that of 2013. The full California Processing Report can be read here. (.pdf)…
Agri View: Eat More Meat
Everett Griner talks about options we have for meat consumption in today’s Agri View. Eat More Meat…
Statements from Officials on Dairy Pricing Legislation
…modernize California’s dairy processing system will not be pursued this session. Statement from CDFA Secretary Karen Ross: “Let me begin by thanking all of you who have spent many, many…