…U.S. milk prices as 2016 drew to a close. The all-milk price hit a high for the first 11 months of the year in November, while the Margin Protection Program…
Ethanol Exports Reached Record-High 1.01 Billion Gallons in 2016
…conference will also serve as host to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Buyer Program (IBP). Through the department’s network of offices in U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide, the IBP…
State Agriculture Leaders Call Food Safety a Farm Bill Priority
…Grant Program and the Market Access Program. The group also wants robust funding for research, new tools for animal disease coordination and investments in voluntary conservation programs. NASDA represents the…
Record Attendance in Nashville as NCBA Members New Elect Officers
…of NCBA, Uden will lead the organization’s policy work and oversee efforts as a contractor to the Beef Checkoff Program. To learn more about the organization visit the website: www.beefusa.org…
ARS Genetics Researcher Named Fairchild Medal Recipient
…Hawaii and is dedicated to tropical plant conservation, research and education. It is honoring Meerow, a geneticist at the ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station‘s National Germplasm Repository in Miami, for…
Tomato Growers Evaluate Domestic, Export Markets
…pest management) program to try to minimize the losses, but it really came down to these resistant (varieties). So now, if those resistant varieties aren’t going to work anymore, it’s…
Funding for Plant and Animal Phenomics and Microbiome Projects
…plant and animal phenomics and microbiomes. The grants are funded through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative’s (AFRI) Food Security Program, authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill. “We are excited…
NMPF Urges Senate Ag Committee to Confirm Perdue as Ag Secretary
…Mulhern. “The new secretary will have many issues on his plate of great concern to dairy farmers, such as fixing the dairy safety net program, developing export markets, updating child…
Snow Survey Shows Big Gains
…of the water content in the snowpack. Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program, conducted today’s survey at Phillips and reported that “we’ve got a very good…
Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture
…of the National Science Foundation’s National Robotics Initiative, the country’s premier robotics program, and involves three of the four UC CITRIS campuses. Farmers are already using technology such as infrared…
Blum Center Relaunching With Focus on Food
…office will be involved in the relaunched Blum Center, too, through projects such as the community garden, the Sprouts Program, which teaches younger children about food production and nutrition, and…
House Agriculture Committee Meets
…Evans (PA-2) Open Conservation and Forestry Jurisdiction: Policies and statutes relating to resource conservation, forestry, and all forests under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Agriculture. Rep. Trent Kelly (MS-1)…
Report Shows Crop Insurance Saved 21,000 Jobs in 2012 Drought
…history of the crop insurance program, says crop insurance helped cover the 2012 drought shortfall and saved 20,900 jobs across Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming, with an annual labor…
Unified Bee Health Data Key to Finding Trends
…bees. The Bee Informed program is a growing partnership that several institutions started five years ago. “The basic idea behind the Bee Informed partnership is that we want to collect…