…to reduce their production costs. “The dairyman has been figuring out how to use some of the other many commodities because they’re cheaper and working that into their program,” said…
Certified Organic Production Sales Up 13 Percent
…U.S. organic production in the coming years, making the data even more important for policy and programs. These results will assist with the development of appropriate risk management programs designed…
Research Targets Olive Knot Strategies
…Kasugamycin is currently going through the IR-4 Program so that it can be registered for use on California olives. Another antibiotic, oxytetracycline, was also recently accepted into the IR-4 program….
New Markets Sought for Walnut Sector
…term. Walnut marketers say they’re expanding their efforts to find new customers for the crop. Harvest has started for early walnut varieties. Peter Jelavich of Hawn Ranch Co., who began…
National Food Safety Month
…largest trade show (NRA Show May 20-23, 2017, in Chicago); leading food safety training and certification program (ServSafe); unique career-building high school program (the NRAEF’s ProStart); as well as the…
U.S. Files WTO Complaint Against China
…price support” programs. Pursuant to the market price support programs, China announces on an annual basis the minimum prices at which the government will purchase Indica rice, Japonica rice, wheat,…
Agri View: Corn and the Market
…growers planted ninety three million acres of corn this year. Harvest is now on the way and when it is over we should have about the same size crop we…
September Crop Production Report
…below last year. Harvest is expected to begin in October. Cotton Upland cotton production in California is forecast at 260 thousand bales, up 58 percent from the 2015 crop. Harvested…
USDA Seeks Nominees to the National Dairy Board
…board under the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983. Research and promotion programs are industry-funded, were authorized by Congress, and date back to 1966. Since then, Congress has authorized the…
Farm to School Grants to Increase Local Foods in Schools
…administers 15 nutrition assistance programs that include the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and…
Proposals for Delta Habitat Restoration
…program to fulfill Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s direction to State agencies to begin restoration of at least 30,000 acres in the Delta over the next five years. In addition,…
Animal Care Training Webinars Offered
FARM Program, Merck Animal Health to Jointly Offer Animal Care Training Webinars for Version 3.0 The Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program announced it is teaming up with Merck Animal…
Russia to Become Top Wheat Exporter in 2016-2017
…expecting record yields during harvest. Russia is expecting its biggest wheat harvest in history despite having a much lower number of acres devoted to the crop than it has since…
Groups Support Heritage Foundation Farm Bill Report
…end to commodity support programs and federal crop insurance, saying that farm programs should only help in times of deep crop losses. The Hagstrom Report says Environmental Working Group Vice…