…higher price, opening a potentially profitable niche market. The Stokes sweet potato, right, has better color than the L-14-15-P experimental cultivar. “Purple flesh sweet potatoes have beta-carotene, like the more…
Oregon Representative Releases Alternative Farm Bill
…which are the Agricultural Risk Coverage Program and the Price Loss Program. It also eliminates conservation spending on confined animal feeding operations, opting instead to give more money to organic…
Almond Board: Farmland Trusts
…lost farmland. This loss can be attributed to urbanization, low density rural residences; mining and ecological restoration projects resulting in fewer jobs and lower tax revenue for counties and cities….
Farm Bureau Survey Reveals Lowest Thanksgiving Dinner Cost in Five Years
…often use milk as a loss leader to entice consumers to shop at their stores.” Items that increased modestly in price were: a half-pint of whipping cream, $2.08; a 14-ounce…
Wildfire Assessment Study Underway for North Coast Wine Industry
…some stories indicating a total loss. However, the winery did not actually suffer any damage to their wine-making or hospitality facilities. The company sign was merely damaged, and a portion…
Fixing the Dairy Safety Net
…says Brown. A good-sized number of options have been discussed, including reducing the premiums or allowing dairy farmers to purchase more coverage. Some proposals also include going back to the…
USDA to Measure Final 2017 Row Crop Production and Grain Stocks with Two End-of-Year Surveys
…producers. Producers can lose out when there is no data to determine accurate rates for loans, disaster payments, crop insurance price elections, and more.” The County Agricultural Production Survey will…
Working on Sugar Support Programs Before 2018 Farm Bill
…default on loans. The Act would take away price supports and repeals current marketing and quota requirements that help to control the amount of sugar moving through the American marketplace….
Advancing from Sustainable to Regenerative Agriculture
…and reduce overall emissions. LaSalle describes the two biggest challenges that farmers are facing are the loss of soils and how changes in weather patterns are affecting yields. Through new…
Global Food Prices Reported Lower
…down. The vegetable oil, sugar and meat price sub-indexes all decreased, while cereal grain prices were up a half a percent, led by higher rice prices even as wheat quotations…
Western View: The Emperor of the United States
…pound. Suddenly other shipments arrived and the price dropped to three cents a pound, and Norton was bankrupt. After that disaster, he lived quietly till 1859. That was when he…
Insurer Suing ABC over BPI Settlement
…not, in fact, covered by its policy with AIG. Meat industry publication Meatingplace reports AIG said that its policy specifically excludes coverage for legal claims that allege “malice,” which BPI’s…
USDA Announces Enrollment Period for Safety Net Coverage in 2018
…starting Nov. 1, 2017, farmers and ranchers with base acres in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) safety net program may enroll for the 2018 crop…
NAFTA Notice Would Devastate Farm Economy
…would actually take effect.” The groups contend that if a withdrawal notice is issued, that action would result in a loss of at least 50,000 jobs in the U.S. food…