…the focus of NMPF – and which we’ll continue to push hard for action on, even if it means it will be 2017 before they can be addressed in earnest….
Women in Agriculture Trade Mission is Underway
…food and agricultural goods to consumers worldwide. Exports are responsible for 20 percent of U.S. farm income, also driving rural economic activity and supporting more than one million American jobs….
NFU: Bayer/Monsanto Deal Bad for Farmers
News stories that Bayer has increased its bid for Monsanto and that the two companies are continuing to negotiate prompted National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson to take action. He’s…
Project Aids Food Supply for Delta Smelt
…Sacramento River last week to discuss their work to increase the number of plankton available to the fish. Cooperative efforts by state and federal agencies, Sacramento Valley farmers and water…
R&D Investments for Small Businesses
…Skokie, Ill., is working to reduce food waste by developing materials that inhibit ethylene gas, a hormone that plants produce as they age, in a wider variety of plants and…
California State Organic Program
…40 percent of the nation’s organic production. Consequently, organic agriculture plays a key role in California’s economy. The California Organic Foods Act of 1990 created the State Organic Program (SOP)…
Increased International Collaboration on Agricultural Science
…Sonny Ramaswamy. “The enhanced NIFA-BARD agreement will use funding and scientific resources to meet common research goals and have a positive global impact.” Beginning in early 2017, Israeli scientists can…
Congress Back in Session This Week
…regardless of the expectations. Farm groups plan to push support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which is expected to be sent to Congress after the elections in the lame-duck…
Availability of Additional Farm Loan Funding
…supports one in 11 American jobs, provides American consumers with more than 80 percent of the food we consume, ensures that Americans spend less of their paychecks at the grocery…
USDEC, NMPF Laud Senators for Urging Investigation
…Trade Representative Michael Froman and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Schumer and Baldwin expressed concern about Canada’s recently announced National Ingredients Strategy and its already active Ontario Class VI pricing program….
Computer “Nudges” Help School Lunch Choices
…United States. Additionally, although 99.9 percent of American children aged 12 to 18 consume fruits and vegetables daily, less than 1 percent eat the federally recommended amount of those foods….
DOJ Seeks to Stop Deere from Purchasing Monsanto’s Precision Planting Division
…high-speed precision planting retrofit kits at a fraction of the cost of a new planter, “Precision Planting posed a formidable challenge to Deere and its profitable sales of new planters.”…
USDA Sharply Revises Farm Income Forecasts
…the ability of farmers to “plan ahead and make sharp business decisions in a challenging market.” From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service. From: USDA Economic Research Service…
Support for the Salton Sea
…activities within the federal and State partnership to facilitate projects in a timely manner to improve air and water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, existing obligations to Native American communities,…