The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has awarded $5.23 million in grant funding to 86 projects as part of its Healthy Soils Program. The program is the first…
Farm City Newsday Tuesday, 12-05-17
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Chowchilla Dairy Farmer Named 2017 Conservation Agriculture Farmer Innovator
Chowchilla dairy farmer Michael McRee has been named the 2017 Conservation Agriculture Farmer Innovator by the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) Center for his innovation and leadership in the development…
Trump to Meet with Cruz, Oil Industry, Regarding RFS
…vote of Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey nomination to a top Department of Agriculture post, demanding a meeting with the President and others. The meeting is likely to be scheduled…
Senate Tax Bill Doesn’t Include Section 199 Deductions
…180 agriculture groups signed a letter last month to House and Senate leadership expressing the importance of the deduction to agriculture. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Korea Submitting Plan to Renegotiate KORUS
…to submit the plan to lawmakers possibly within this month.” Submitting a plan would effectively wrap up the domestic procedures needed for opening talks with Washington. However, agriculture in both…
Historical Influx of Young Farmers into the Industry
The agriculture industry experienced an increase in young farmers under the age of 35 for only the second time in the last 100 years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)…
Celebrate the First Annual California Soils Week
The inaugural California Soils Week featured multiple events in northern and southern California. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has teamed up with government partners, non-governmental organizations and…
USDA Delays the Puerto Rico Census of Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is delaying the Puerto Rico Census of Agriculture until December 2018 due to conditions caused by Hurricane Maria. NASS…
Farm City Newsday Monday, 12-04-17
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Perdue: U.S. Farm Exports to Continue Strong in FY 2018
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue issued the following statement regarding the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) export forecast. “This quarterly trade forecast reflects the fact that U.S. agricultural exports…
Farm City Newsday Friday, 12-01-17
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GAO: Improvements Recommended to Checkoff Oversight
…commodity. In 2016, check-off funds totaled more than $885 million. The GAO reviewed eight of the programs and says the Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service has improved oversight since…
Crawford Renews Calls to Open Ag Trade with Cuba
…U.S. to tap into Cuba’s $2 billion agricultural market, according to Politico. Crawford first proposed the bill in January that would cut back restrictions on U.S. financing for agriculture exports,…