…visit www.fsa.usda.gov/farmloans or contact a local USDA office. To find the nearest USDA office, visit http://offices.usda.gov/. Since 2009, USDA has worked to strengthen and support American agriculture, an industry that…
Planning a Safe Picnic
…This Land of Ours. Planning a Safe Picnic If you’re planning a holiday weekend picnic or cookout out at a park or anywhere outside the home, USDA Food Safety Expert…
Wheat Industry Applauds End to Japan’s Wheat Import Suspension
…delivery in October. MAFF had temporarily suspended new WW purchases following the announcement on July 29, 2016, by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) that a small number…
Computer “Nudges” Help School Lunch Choices
…the USDA – more than 5 billion school lunches are served daily – yet, less than 1 percent eat the federally recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables. Suppose that could…
USDA Sharply Revises Farm Income Forecasts
The Department of Agriculture this week changed its forecast for 2016 net cash farm income to $94.1 billion, up from its initial projection of $90.9 billion in February. While USDA…
Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program
…threat to food crop growers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking public comment on an updated environmental impact statement (EIS) that…
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack on Farm Income Forecasts
Vilsack Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued the following statement on the Farm Income and Financial Forecasts for 2015 and 2016, released by USDA’s Economic Research Service. “Today’s farm income forecast…
Less Profitability For Farmers This Year
USDA’s latest Farm Income Forecast reveals ag producers are expected to be less profitable in 2016 than the previous year. Farmers This Year…
Brown Bag School Lunch Myths
…brown bag lunch you’re carrying. USDA Expert Marianne Gravely joined us to unravel 3 common myths about food safety. First myth. If the meat or poultry you’re using has been…
USDA Buying Eggs to Ease Surplus
…Management (WBSCM) website at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=WBSCM. Offers submitted by any means other than WBSCM will be considered non-responsive. Offerors are urged to review all documents as they pertain to this program,…
10 Percent of Farmland to Change Ownership
New data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows 10 percent of all farmland will be transferred to new ownership by 2019. USDA says farmland owners planned to transfer 93…
Farm Labor Overtime Bill Passes
…who spoke on the floor before the vote. “We know that the report…from USDA that includes quarterly reports, we know that farmers are reporting that the average work week is…
Packing Safe School Lunches
…for food poisoning we want to take special care with packing their lunches to make sure that they don’t get sick. USDA Food Safety Expert Marianne Gravely says the key…
USDA Quarterly Export Forecast Shows Higher Numbers
…demand is also projected to strengthen as well. China is expected to overtake Canada as the top destination for American agricultural products. USDA also revised the fiscal year 2016 export…