Everett Griner talks about FDA recalls on contaminated food taking too long in today’s Agri View. Contaminated Recall If there’s anything you don’t want in your house its contaminated food…
Food and Agriculture Co-op Income Again Sets Record
…Inc., a fuel, grain and food cooperative based in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., remains the nation’s largest cooperative in the United States, with $34.7 billion in total business volume for…
Safety-Net Payments to Farmers
…in excess commodities to be redirected to food banks and those in need, making $11 million in payments to America’s dairy farmers through the Dairy Margin Protection Program, and reprogramming…
Agri View: New Possibilities
…words groves of research. What people don’t realize is that the pomegranate is a very good health food. We could find a lot of anxious growers in groves. That’s Agri…
Support for Rural Cooperative Businesses and Organizations
…food systems. Over the course of the Obama Administration, USDA has invested close to $1 billion in 40,000 local food-related projects on farms and in communities across the country. USDA’s…
Training, Educating the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
…Initiative coordinates the Department’s work to develop strong local and regional food systems. USDA has invested over $1 billion in more than 40,000 local food businesses and infrastructure projects. See…
National Farm to School Month
Highlights Benefits to America’s Students and Communities by Deborah Kane, Director, Office of Community Food Systems, Food and Nutrition Service The local foods offered through farm to school programs help…
Importance of Accurate Evapotranspiration
…that number specific to your land is the key and Bianchi said statewide systems can be a little general in some areas. “There are various ways to calculate that number….
Sharing Almond Production Techniques Internationally
…out what they are doing and watching their videos and how they adapt their systems so that we are hopefully ahead of particulate matter regulations which we think are imminent.”…
Most Consumers Say They Lack Access to Information about Food
…of Farm Broadcasting news service. From: The Center for Food Integrity How Can the Food Industry Satisfy Their Appetites? More of today’s consumers crave information about food and how it’s…
National 4-H Week
…administered by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Throughout the world, 4-H organizations exist in over 50 countries. For more information about 4-H and National 4-H Week, go…
NIFA Awards Community Food Projects
…goals of Community Food Projects include meeting the food needs of low-income individuals; promoting comprehensive responses to local food access, farm and nutrition issues, and addressing state, local and neighborhood…
Support for Minority and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers
…also serving Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, $199,999 Cultivating Community, Maine, $187,706 Michigan Integrated Food & Farming Systems, Michigan, $199,998…
FDA Allows Peanuts to be called “Healthy”
…a healthy food.” The comment period for the use of the term “healthy” in the labeling of food products is open until January 26th of next year. From the National…