…traveled to Mexico and met with the major grain associations representing the top buyers of U.S. grain products, among others. NCGA President Kevin Skunes warns the loss of market access…
Agri View: California Winery Losses
Everett Griner talks about losses suffered to the California winery business due to the wildfires in today’s Agri View. Everett lets us know just what we can expect the price…
Turkey Prices Struggling at Thanksgiving
…drop in price is the simple economics of supply and demand. Dewey Warner is a research fellow with Euromonitor International who says the prices drop has been building for a…
Farmers Getting Only 11 Cents of Every Food Dollar
…Share publication says farmers and ranchers get 11.4 cents of every dollar that consumers spend on their turkey day dinner. The Farm Bureau’s annual Thanksgiving Day Price Survey found that…
Vibrant Purple Sweet Potatoes are a Healthful Thanksgiving Surprise
…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…