In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing béchamel sauce with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here is what you will need: Milk Clove Garlic Shallot Butter Flour Bay…
Agriculture Production Costs Sharply Decline in 2015
…in 2014, both declined 8.2 percent last year. Producers spent $58.5 billion on animal feed and $41.6 billion on farm services in 2015. One of only two expenditure categories that…
Concerns About Reduced Crop Insurance Funding
Many California producers now take advantage of crop insurance programs. A Minnesota congressman is concerned about possible reduced crop insurance funding in the next farm bill. Concerns About Reduced Crop…
The People’s Department: A New Era for Civil Rights at USDA
…farmers in 2015 alone, of which 72 percent are considered socially disadvantaged or beginning — a record number compared to prior years. Since 2008, USDA’s annual lending to underserved producers…
USDA Announces Assistance for Dairy Farmers
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Thursday announced that dairy producers enrolled in the 2016 Margin Protection Program for Dairy will get approximately $11.2 million in financial assistance. Vilsack said Thursday “we…
Safety Net Assistance for Milk Producers
USDA Announces Safety Net Assistance for Milk Producers Due to Tightening Dairy Margins May/June 2016 Average Margins Below $6 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced approximately $11.2 million in financial assistance…
Marketing Needed for Climbing Pecan Market
…has increased roughly eight percent. Production has also increased abroad, most notably in Mexico and South Africa, creating additional competitive pressures for U.S. producers and processors. As a result, prices…
Ag Outlook Strengthens
…Economy Barometer turned higher, coming in at 112 in July, up from 104 in June and 97 in May. The improved outlook among producers in the survey came despite a…
McDonald’s Announces New Antibiotics Policy
…jugs of low-fat white milk and fat-free chocolate milk only from cows not treated with rBST, an artificial growth hormone sometimes used in cattle. McDonald’s realizes that there’s no significant…
Livestock Review
…million milk cows for June that produced 3.36 billion pounds of milk. Milk production is down 5 percent from May, 2016 and down 1 percent from June 2015. Monthly milk…
July Dairy Market Report
…well as for total milk use in all products. The rate of annual decline in fluid milk sales continues to slow, while consumption of milkfat in the entire fluid milk…
Specialty Crop Research and Extension Investments
…Bluff, Pine Bluff, Ark., $50,000 The American Olive Oil Producers Association, Clovis, Calif., $50,000 Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, Ill., $3,694,012 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., $3,673,611 Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville,…
Cotton Tour Connects Growers
…Producers Information Exchange western tour, sponsored by The Cotton Foundation and Bayer CropScience, had several stops in the Central Valley on its schedule. Public relations representative with Bayer CropScience, Lee…
Dockers Union Contract Negotiations
…$40 million a week during the slowdown. The National Pork Producers Council and 112 other trade associations in March sent a letter to the groups urging them to begin early…