…a series of recent USDA actions to expand flexibility and ease challenges for partners and stakeholders who help feed our nation’s children. Other actions include: Publishing the School Meal Flexibility…
Paraguay Market Now Open To U.S. Pork
…pork producer from Johnstown, Ohio. “This is welcome news for America’s pork producers.” While the South American country is a modest consumer of pork, there is potential for U.S. pork…
USDA Helps Cotton Producers Maintain, Expand Domestic Market
…producers. The program was established under the statutory authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act. To learn more about the CGCS program, visit www.fsa.usda.gov/cgcs or contact a local FSA…
Senate Confirms Key USTR Nominees
…activity in 2016; and 3) these growing exports are vital to the U.S. economy, supporting more than 43 million jobs from coast-to-coast. “We are gratified to have these strong performers…
Charring Experience Helps Conservation Planner Assist Others
California’s Natural Resources Conservation Service named Andrew Loganbill it’s 2017 Conservation Planner of the Year for his workload and post-fire expertise that was called on well outside of his home…
Ag Groups Concerned About Trade Retaliation
…for Free Trade Organization says they are also deeply concerned that the move to impose tariffs will unintentionally hurt American agriculture. “These tariffs are very likely to accelerate a tit-for-tat…
Trump Will Impose New Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum
After hosting what the White House initially called a “listening” session, President Donald Trump took American investors by surprise Thursday. Trump announced to the group attending the meeting that he…
2018 Pig Farmers of Tomorrow Named
Recipients recognized as leaders of the next generation of American pig farmers The National Pork Board announced that Adam Krause from South Dakota and Emma Lasco and Christine Snowden, both…
Almond Update: Fighting Domestic Skepticism
The Almond Board of California said they continued to see apprehension with North American consumers in 2017. ABC’s Director of North America, Molly Spence, said that sentiment lessens the value…
USDA Projecting Strong Red Meat, Poultry Exports
…period thanks to the continued recovery from the 2015 avian influenza outbreak. American will remain the second-largest poultry exporter behind Brazil. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
U.S. Ag Pays the Price for Trade Disputes
The Farmers for Free Trade Group released a report this week that highlights how American farmers and ranchers have paid the price in trade disputes. Consequences usually happen in the…
Hatch: Congress Will Act on NAFTA Withdrawal
Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch weighed in this week on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations. The Senate Finance Committee Chair says Congress will intervene if President Trump…
California Vegetables More Than Half of U.S. Total
…east of Highway 1. Literary aficionados may know Salinas for the annual Steinbeck Festival (you may have heard of John, great American author and all that), but did you know…
California Young Farmers and Ranchers Win Big at National Conference
The California Young Farmers and Ranchers (YF&R) program represented the state at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual Leadership Conference in Reno, Nevada that took place February 16 through 19….