…handling, sanitation, nutrition, water, veterinary care and protection from extreme weather and temperatures. To ensure that its licensees are meeting the AWA standards, APHIS inspectors conduct routine, unannounced inspections of…
Demand for Hay Depends on Level of its Quality
…to reduce their production costs. “The dairyman has been figuring out how to use some of the other many commodities because they’re cheaper and working that into their program,” said…
Beef Checkoff Education Webpage
…pasturing and how much land a heifer or steer needs to be raised, so they’re using critical math skills, critical thinking skills. And then another game, they’re learning about nutrition…
Certified Organic Production Sales Up 13 Percent
…U.S. organic production in the coming years, making the data even more important for policy and programs. These results will assist with the development of appropriate risk management programs designed…
Research Targets Olive Knot Strategies
…Kasugamycin is currently going through the IR-4 Program so that it can be registered for use on California olives. Another antibiotic, oxytetracycline, was also recently accepted into the IR-4 program….
Almond Board: Almond Conference Sessions
…a session on managing orchard salinity, a three-part series on tree physiology which looks at how an almond tree grows, tree nutrition uptake and management and how to manage young…
New Markets Sought for Walnut Sector
…for centuries,” Balint said. “That’s why last year, for the first year in history, we had a meaningful advertising program, including television, and we’ll be repeating that this year.” Jennifer…
National Food Safety Month
…largest trade show (NRA Show May 20-23, 2017, in Chicago); leading food safety training and certification program (ServSafe); unique career-building high school program (the NRAEF’s ProStart); as well as the…
U.S. Files WTO Complaint Against China
…price support” programs. Pursuant to the market price support programs, China announces on an annual basis the minimum prices at which the government will purchase Indica rice, Japonica rice, wheat,…
NFU and Farm Aid Looking for Help
…downturn. Both organizations say that America’s farmers can’t afford to wait for assistance until after the November election. They’re asking Congress for emergency relief for the hardest-hit farmers, increased funding…
USDA Seeks Nominees to the National Dairy Board
…board under the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983. Research and promotion programs are industry-funded, were authorized by Congress, and date back to 1966. Since then, Congress has authorized the…
Improving SNAP Employment and Training Programs
…the economic ladder and out of poverty. The state SNAP E&T programs we discussed today are providing able-bodied SNAP recipients with greater opportunities through job and search training, transportation assistance,…
Farm to School Grants to Increase Local Foods in Schools
…administers 15 nutrition assistance programs that include the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and…
Proposals for Delta Habitat Restoration
…program to fulfill Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s direction to State agencies to begin restoration of at least 30,000 acres in the Delta over the next five years. In addition,…