…U.S. ethanol industry is suggesting, however, would provide additional opportunities for U.S. ethanol export sales. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service. From: U.S. Grains Council U.S. Ethanol…
Avian Influenza Found in Mexico
…15,000 birds that had been vaccinated and did not show any clinical signs of the disease, according to agriculture officials in Mexico. Reuters reports that the farm is under quarantine…
Senate Bill Would Protect Farmworkers
A bill introduced last week in the U.S. Senate would give farmworkers a path to legal status and citizenship. California Senators, Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, introduced the legislation…
Federal Policies on Rural Issues Gain Attention
…Soon after Sonny Perdue was confirmed as U.S. agriculture secretary last week, President Donald Trump met with farmers, signed executive orders and introduced a tax plan that includes repeal of…
Urban School Food Alliance Responds to School Nutrition Standard
…limited resources struggle to meet certain aspects of the Act. The flexibility outlined by the Secretary of Agriculture will be a great benefit to most of the nation’s school food…
Notice of Determination of Changes to the National Poultry Improvement Plan Program Standards
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is updating the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) Program Standards. In a previous notice, the Agency proposed changes to…
Perdue Planning First Farm Policy Speech
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will speak in Iowa Friday, giving his first major farm policy speech. The Department of Agriculture says Secretary Perdue will travel to Nevada (nu-vay-duh), Iowa, to…
FDA to Address Agricultural Biotechnology Misinformation
…for the campaign, that comes after more than 50 agriculture and food industry groups had signed a letter last month urging the funding to counter “a tremendous amount of misinformation…
NMPF Urges Dairy Imitators to Comply with Food Labeling Standards
…real food, this ‘fake food’ movement has gone in the opposite direction, flaunting U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards that define milk as the product of cows, not heavily…
Soggy Fields slow Start of Rice Planting
…time. California farmers are expected to plant 539,000 acres of rice this year, down from 541,000 in 2016, according to a prospective plantings report released in March by the U.S.…
Secretary Perdue Announces Arrival of First Shipment of U.S. Beef to Brazil
…market. Brazil closed its market to imports of U.S. fresh beef in 2003 over concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Since then, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural…
Soil Health Partnership Urges Farmers to Take USDA Survey
…Survey. In its fifth year, the survey helps the USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program understand why farmers choose to use cover crops, or the reasons that they…
NMPF, USDEC Organize Dairy Fly-In on Capitol Hill to Build Support for Trade with Canada, Mexico
…Perdue, Acting U.S. Trade Representative Stephen Vaughn and White House agriculture advisor Ray Starling. “Canada’s new Class 7 milk pricing scheme unfairly undercuts U.S. dairy exports to Canada and around…
Organic Wine Study-Price or Taste?
…us wine lovers aren’t willing to pay more for that bottle, even if it’s labeled organic. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Organic agriculture around the world…