Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry Results, Additional $72.3 Million Soil Health Investment to Support Paris Agreement Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack shared the first results of USDA’s…
Agri View: Ornamental Fish
…array of animal species that make up the generic ‘ornamental aquarium fish trade’ is staggering. Around 2,000 species and millions of specimens are traded annually in the ornamental fish trade…
Conserve Energy and Save Costs
…upon the recipient meeting the terms of the grant agreement. Since the start of the Obama Administration, USDA has provided more than $11.8 million to 136 recipients of the REAP…
Agri View: Weather Losses
…of trade. However, climate change will affect the quantity of produce available for export and import as well as prices (Figure 6.3). The cumulative impacts of climate change will ultimately…
Interview with Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack
Vilsack AgNet West News Director Sabrina Hill talks with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack about his recent trip to Asia, trade and the Trans Pacific Partnership, and the upcoming election. Ag…
NPPC Capital Update
…trade agreement with the United States, and Obama pointing out that the two countries could more immediately address trade issues through a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement. (TIFA provides a…
Two Sides of TPP
…is important for American agriculture, a trade agreement that does little to fix currency manipulation, reign in foreign predatory trade practices, or improve the $531 billion trade imbalance is not…
Strengthen Rural Communities
…many hardships. Nearly 85 percent of persistent poverty counties are located in rural areas and over six million rural Americans, including about 1.5 million children, live in poverty today. Funding…
It’s Not Just Climate Change
…were overstating the influence of climate change. The authors recommend considering climate change and human variables at the same time for future models. Moritz “There is widespread agreement about the…
Dairy: Focus on Defending Common Names Rights
…(USTR). It identifies trade barriers to U.S. companies and products due to the intellectual property policies, such as copyright, patents, trademarks and geographical indications in other countries. Increasingly, those barriers…
Garden by the Moon
…by Jaime McLeod, Farmers’ Almanac journalist Gardening by the Moon, or more specifically, according to the phases of the Moon, is an idea that has been around for as long…
Renegotiating the TPP Agreement ‘Not an Option’
Can the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement be changed at this late date? Gary Crawford has the story. Renegotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement ‘Not an Option’…
Agri View: Robot Tractors and Agriculture
…in 2016 – marking the beginning of true commercialization – about 1,600 units in 2017, and more than 4,100 in 2018.” Driving the growth in agricultural automation is a convergence…
Dairy Groups Thank Senators
…to address the needs of agriculture – including key dairy issues – in any free trade agreement with the European Union. In a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman,…