…cwt., 20 percent higher than the 2014 production. Yields averaged 340 cwt. from 18.5 thousand acres harvested. Sugar Beets – The 2016 sugar beet production forecast is 1.09 million tons,…
Agri View: Small Towns
…living in nonmetro counties remained essentially unchanged between July 2014 and July 2015, after 4 years of modest population losses. The 2014-15 improvement in rural population change coincides with a…
Drought Alert: Call to Re-examine ‘Harmful Actions’
…water is used to enhance the environment. In 2014 and 2015, Reclamation was unable to meet its legal obligation to make specified quantities of water to managed wetlands, where water…
Officials Say No Link between California Cage laws, Nevada Poultry Sales Increase
…200 percent since 2010, from a level of $5.32 million to $15.9 million in 2014. The jump comes as the state’s overall agriculture production value rose by 50 percent during…
Signup for Cotton Producers Starts June 20
…ginning costs and to facilitate marketing. The program will provide, on average, approximately 60 percent more assistance per farm and per producer than the 2014 program that provided cotton transition…
Sec. Vilsack Announces $16.8 Million in Grants
…Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants increase their purchases of fruits and vegetables. The funding comes from the Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) program, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill…
Bat Population Decline
…2016 Update Little brown bats, like these found in a cave in Maine in 2013, are increasingly being found with white-nose syndrome. The U.S. Forest Service is researching many angles…
Agri View: Japan’s Agriculture Imports-Exports
…Japan Japan’s agricultural imports (nearly $60 billion in 2013) make it the world’s fourth-largest importer, after the United States, China, and the European Union (EU). Based on total calories consumed,…
Petition to Legalize Industrial Hemp
…to Politico. The 2014 Farm Bill defined hemp as distinctly different from marijuana and also permitted farming pilot projects in states that have legalized cultivation. Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie…
Plant Health and Resilience Research
…plant health, production and resilience. These grants were made through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Foundational program, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill and administered by USDA’s National…
USDA Unveils New Improvement to Streamline Crop Reporting
…have expressed concerns with providing the same basic common information for multiple locations. In 2013, USDA consolidated the deadlines to 15 dates for submitting these reports, down from the previous…
Bacterial Spot History Shows Losses
…In 2014, we verified the presence of the disease at previous and additional locations in California, although at levels much lower than in 2013. Read more from The Almond Doctor….
Where Does Your Food Come From?
…percent of the strawberries purchased by USDA Foods in FY 2014 came from the state of California. During this time, California schools received approximately 3.3 million pounds of this locally…
May Dairy Market Report
…push projections for the dairy-income-over-feed-cost margin to its lowest levels since 2013. USDA’s NMPF decision tool for the Margin Protection Program (MPP) now indicates that the MPP margin may fall…