The Global Food Price Index has increased two percent since this time last year. Released last week, the monthly record of global food prices by the Food and Agriculture Organization…
Armed to Farm Program Provides Veterans with Farming Skills
The Armed to Farm: Sustainable Agriculture Training for Military Veterans program is an initiative to provide training in sustainable agriculture to military veterans. The program is offered free of charge…
Fresno State Awarded Irrigation Innovation Grant
Fresno State’s Jordan College of Agriculture was one of five universities across the nation selected to receive a grant for its efforts with irrigation innovation. The college’s Center for Irrigation…
Farm City Newsday Monday, 05-07-18
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The Western View: Moapa Valley
…many places with traces of pre-Columbian agriculture. A particularly interesting one is east of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the Moapa river valley on the north side of the Grand Canyon….
Perdue Applauds President Trump’s Selection for USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue applauded President Donald J. Trump’s selection of Dr. Mindy Brashears to be the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Under Secretary for Food Safety. After…
Farm City Newsday Friday, 05-04-18
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CBO Publishes Farm Bill Analysis
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the House Agriculture Committee’s farm bill draft would reduce nutrition spending by $9.2 billion, offset by a $7.7 billion increase in spending on federal…
Farm Bureau Hails Publishing of Food Disclosure Standard
…today by the Agriculture Department’s Agricultural Marketing Service, will give consumers a valuable resource for making informed decisions about food. Just as important, USDA is doing this the right way,…
USDA Seeks Comments on Proposed Rule for National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard
The U.S. Department of Agriculture invited public comment on the proposed rule to establish the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard mandated by Congress in 2016. The standard will provide a…
Farm City Newsday Thursday, 05-03-18
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CCM Ramping Up Political Efforts on Behalf of Citrus Growers
…a better economic environment for our industry, which also means for agriculture,” said CCM President Joel Nelsen, “we decided that we had to have a higher profile in certain key…
Lighthizer: NAFTA Deal Needed within the Next Few Weeks
…in the current Congress, than “risk a shift in priorities in 2019.” However, little movement will be made before the meeting next week of trade negotiators. Lighthizer made his comments…
Dairy MPP Enrollment Deadline a Month Away
…coverage for 2018, even if they enrolled during the previous sign-up period last fall. Coverage choices made this spring for calendar year 2018 will be retroactive to January 1, 2018….