…the entire dairy industry with her skillful management of the FARM Program, building producer, processor and customer support, and effectively telling the story of the great job America’s dairy farmers…
Loans for Farm Storage-Handling Equipment
USDA Offers New Loans for Portable Farm Storage and Handling Equipment Portable Equipment Can Help Producers, including Small-Scale and Local Farmers, Get Products to Market Quickly U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Almond Tree Increase Brings Questions and Benefits
As California Almond Acreage Grows, Trees Bring Benefits to Agriculture, Environment and Community From the Almond Board of California: The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reported that California’s almond acreage…
Factors Impacting Cost of Production
…of production to America’s farmers and ranchers is impacted by many factors ranging from market price and land values to government policies and regulations. According to our witness from Illinois,…
Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge
…judges and audience at the American Farm Bureau Annual Convention. Still have questions? Contact Lisa Benson at American Farm Bureau at lisab@fb.org. Image credits: All images courtesy of Farm Bureau®….
Agri View: El Niño Fading
…long-term mean. Climate.gov figure from CPC data. Click for Large image. In South America, southern Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil have received much more rain than their long-term December–February average,…
National Grasslands
National Grasslands – Celebrating and Conserving Open Space by Vern Koehler and Jane Knowlton, U.S. Forest Service Photo credit: U.S. Forest Service Many know about America’s Great Plains, the vast,…
It’s Not Just Climate Change
…much control over how climate change will effect wildfires in the future. However, we do have the ability to influence the other half of the equation, those variables that control…
CA Almond Acreage Increases Again
…Agriculture Cooperating with the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Pacific Regional Office California’s 2015 almond acreage is estimated at 1,110,000 acres, up 6 percent from the 2014 revised acreage of…
Biofuels and Bioproducts
…at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in a program funded in part by BETO. Since then, BETO has competitively awarded additional funding to Lygos through the Small Business Vouchers Pilot, an…
Resource to Help Food Hubs
…local and regional food systems. USDA is committed to helping farmers, ranchers, and businesses access the growing market for local and regional foods, which was valued at $12 billion in…
Meals for Kids
…Children (WIC) and with other Child Nutrition Programs. The new standards for meals and snacks served in the CACFP are based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, science-based recommendations made…
Agri View: Ostrich Farming
Everett Griner talks about Ostrich farming having possibilities in the United States in today’s Agri View. Farming Ostriches in the U. S. From: 1.America.edu U.S. Ostrich Farming A. Identification: 1….
New Partnerships to Link Underserved Farmers
…in 11 American jobs, provides American consumers with more than 80 percent of the food we consume, ensures that Americans spend less of their paychecks at the grocery store than…