…with promotional organizations Dairy Management Inc. and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, as well as the U.S. Dairy Export Council. National Milk and the dairy industry as a whole…
Dicamba Dispute Leads to Farmer’s Death
…regarding the spraying of dicamba, according to DTN. Wallace farmed about 5,000 acres of corn, cotton and soybeans. He was quoted in the Wall Street Journal in this summer expressing…
Agri View: Export Trade
…be 133 billion dollars. There is horticultural products, cotton, livestock and dairy products. Don’t forget poultry, oilseed and tree nuts. China is expected to be our biggest customer. Just a…
Enrollment Period for Safety Net Coverage in 2017
Dolcini U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Val Dolcini announced that producers on farms with base acres under the safety net programs established by the 2014…
Changing Organization and Well-Being of Midsize Farms
…an important link in the U.S. chain of family farms; many are the result of successful small commercial farms that grew in size. The number of midsize farms declined by…
Agri View: Land facts
…crops. It is pasture land. It is a well-established that the biggest crops are corn, wheat and soybeans. Next is rice and cotton. Now here are some other interesting land…
Crop Insurance Options for Upland Cotton Farmers
…for cotton (1975-2013) are from USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA). Only counties with continuous cotton production (recorded every year are included in the analysis, leaving 151 cotton-producing counties, which represent…
Western View: Green is the New Angry
I know that sometimes, I am incredibly naive. I tend to trust that people mean what they say. I tend to believe that politicians may seem wrong-headed but they have…
Industry Calls for Clearing up of Organic Marketing
The organic industry wants more certification for organic products. The Organic Trade Association told public officials during a Thursday roundtable consumers need to trust organic marketing of products beyond food….
Succession Plans can Assure Farms Stay in the Family
…rather than children, although the children may earn income generated by the trust’s assets. With this type of trust, Guth said, the children may change the terms of the distribution….
Western View: The Most Dangerous Highway?
…tomato trucks competing with the cotton trucks and the grapes heading to the juicer, then you add the farm labor vans heading off to the fields or home from a…
Beef, Pork Imports in China Growing
The U.S. Department of Agriculture office in China expects the nation will import 950,000 metric tons of beef in 2017, a gain of 19 percent from 2016. The U.S. could…
USDA WASDE Report at a Glance
…production expected in September into the next fiscal year. Cotton: The 2016/17 U.S. cotton supply and demand estimates show marginally lower production, larger exports, and lower ending stocks relative to…
Pacific Region October Crop Production Report
…the following commodities: Cotton – In California, Upland cotton forecast is 235 thousand bales, up 42 percent from last year. Pima cotton in California forecast is 484 thousand bales with…