…Growing a Healthier Future. USDA’s Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF2) Initiative coordinates the Department’s work to develop strong local and regional food systems. USDA has invested over $1…
Support for Minority and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers
…Under Vilsack’s leadership, USDA has reached historic settlement agreements with African-American and Native American farmers who have faced discrimination by USDA in past decades. USDA established the Office of Advocacy…
Agri View: Food Prices
…the seafood. It is regarded as food security. People simply expect the supermarkets to be well stocked. Here is how USDA shows it. We spend less than seven percent annual…
Funding Available for Specialty Crop Research
…healthy food for all Americans and supporting the health of our next generation. Additional information about this work can be found on USDA’s Medium chapter, Growing a Healthier Future. USDA’s…
USDA GMO Labeling Study Waiting on Funding
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) may have to wait until later this year to receive funding for the congressionally mandated study on electronic GMO labeling. Politico reports USDA Secretary Tom…
Millennials and Organic: a winning combination
…generational attitudes and beliefs regarding the USDA Organic label. The target audience included a national online panel of U.S. households supplemented with KIWI Magazine’s Parents’ Advisory Board. All respondents had…
Sacramento Valley Rice Harvest Accelerates
…allowed farmers to grow more rice, with harvested acreage estimated at 559,000, up 33 percent from last year, according to USDA. Vlach said he was able to plant all of…
Two New Berries for You
…of Agriculture (USDA) botanist Frederick Coville discovered that blueberry bushes require moist, acidic soil to thrive. In 1916, exactly a century ago, the first commercially cultivated crop of highbush blueberries…
Funding for Farmers Markets / Food Promotion Programs
…safe, healthy food for all Americans. More information about USDA efforts to support the health of our next generation can be found on USDA’s Medium chapter, Growing a Healthier Future….
Organic Research and Extension Programs Funding
…found on USDA’s Medium chapter, Growing a Healthier Future. USDA has invested over $1 billion in more than 40,000 local food businesses and infrastructure projects. Additional information about USDA efforts…
USDA Launches Cage-Free Egg Report
…Farm Broadcasting news service. From: USDA USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), through its Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News (LPGMN) Division, published a new report adding transparency to the cage-free…
USDA Waiting on More Funding
…McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, introduced a stopgap funding measure last week that would also accelerate reimbursement funding for USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation, a USDA-run entity that helps farmers endure unstable…
Farm Bureau Survey Shows Lower Food Prices
…survey, Fall Harvest survey and Thanksgiving survey. According to USDA, Americans spend just under 10 percent of their disposable annual income on food, the lowest average of any country in…
No Big Surprises in USDA’s Cattle on Feed Report
There were no big surprises in Friday’s USDA report on cattle feedlot activities, but the placement numbers were pretty big. usdas-cattle-on-feed-report…