…to enhance transparency around the government’s granting and contracting processes. Producers committed to enhancing water and air quality, wildlife habitat, and soil health were never supposed to get tangled up…
Agri View: Dairy Farming Changes
…milking machines, tuberculin tests for cattle, pasteurization equipment, refrigerated milk tank cars, and automatic bottling machines contributed towards making milk a healthful and commercially viable product. Widespread use of the…
Dolcini Tours Farms
…operations to help reduce climate change. The turbines provide enough power to serve over 50,000 homes. Dolcini’s Washington visit closed with a meeting in Walla Walla with producers who sell…
Officials Say No Link between California Cage laws, Nevada Poultry Sales Increase
While California egg producers adapt to new cage laws, the industry in neighboring Nevada is booming. The Capitol Press reports poultry and egg production cash receipts in Nevada are up…
Signup for Cotton Producers Starts June 20
…assistance.” Through the Cotton Ginning Cost-Share program, eligible producers can receive a one-time cost share payment, which is based on a producer’s 2015 cotton acres reported to FSA, multiplied by…
New ‘Homegrown’ Blog
…the perspective of producers. The gap between urban and rural Americans is growing, and many Americans may not understand how the food on their table gets from the farm to…
NPPC Honors Industry Leader ‘Pig’ Paul
Commemorative Painting Is First In Series Produced By Steel Cow Artist The National Pork Producers Council, at the 28th annual World Pork Expo held here, unveiled a commemorative painting in…
NMPF Board Adopts Resolution
NMPF Board Adopts Resolution Urging Congress to Pass Federal Biotech Labeling Standard With Vermont’s biotechnology food labeling law about to take effect in July, the National Milk Producers Federation urged…
Sec. Vilsack Announces $16.8 Million in Grants
…community partnerships that also benefit regional food producers and local economies along with SNAP participants. Brief descriptions of each project can be found on the NIFA website and 2015 project…
Protecting California Citrus With Natural Enemies
…and the disease is estimated to have cost producers in that state $1.6 billion in losses over a 5 year period, writes Dr. Erica Kistner of UC Riverside’s Center for…
Agri View: Meals Without Meat
…full-fat dairy products such as whole milk cheese,” said Alice Lichtenstein, D.Sc., a professor of nutrition at the USDA Human Nutrition Center at Tufts University in Boston and a member…
Agri View: Japan’s Agriculture Imports-Exports
…Import barriers benefit Japanese farmers, especially those producing rice, milk for manufacturing, sugar beets and sugarcane, and wheat. Japan maintains tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for some commodities, including: Rice and rice…
Dairy Farm Tours
…them to the farm, they get a little ice cream, they get to see the cows, they put the two together—that milk makes ice cream and cheese and all the…
Agri View: Better Times?
…continue to falter, with the milk turning higher first. The report is prepared every year as part of the agency’s budgeting process. Supply and demand tables were released late last…