…USDA on how to support new and beginning farmers. A fact sheet outlining significant USDA efforts to support beginning farmers and ranchers, and other Department-wide accomplishments, are available on www.usda.gov/results….
USDA Video: This Week @ USDA June 20
…activities at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Western snow pack less than needed Saving bees and other pollinators Expanding trade for American farmers. For more information: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/u… http://blogs.usda.gov/2014/06/18/its… http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/main.htm http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/u……
USDA Announces Landmark Commitment to Improve Sage-Grouse Habitat
Nevada-California Ranchers to Benefit Strutting Male Sage Grouse with Female Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a ground-breaking commitment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to accelerate and focus…
USDA Video: The Life of Your Leftovers
The 3 minute video shows how USDA recycles food waste from its South Building cafeteria so it can be turned into gardening mulch. It encourages USDA employees to correctly dispose…
California Farmers Invited to Farm Bill Workshops
…farm bill. Anita Brown is the Public Affairs Director for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in California, just one the four USDA agencies involved in the workshops. The other three…
Revised Quarantine Rules for Mandarins
Mandarin packinghouses in California can breathe a sigh of relief as of May 21. The CDFA and the USDA worked together to revise mandarin regulations under a quarantine. AgNet West’s…
USDA and Farm Bureau Co-host Meetings to Answer Farm Bill Questions
…from four USDA agencies. Most of the workshops will be devoted to answering questions and providing one-on-one assistance to attendees. The June workshops will be held as follows: Yuba City…
Shell Eggs: Daily California Eggs
…USDA Grade AA and Grade AA in cartons, cents per dozen. This price does not reflect discounts or other contract terms. RANGE JUMBO 181 EXTRA LARGE 175 LARGE 168…
Vilsack Message: Local Markets, Local Growth
…jobs, and improving quality of life. USDA’s local food work takes many forms. Last week, USDA opened the 19th season for our farmers market with great fanfare. This is one…
NRCS Drought Assistance Averts Hazardous Wind Erosion in the Klamath Basin
…provided by USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and funding was provided by the agency’s Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program. After a speedy signup, which resulted in 41 contracts, Klamath…
USDA Video: This Week @ USDA June 13
A weekly look at some of the events and activities at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. For morer information: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/us… http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/Home.html http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wps/portal/.. http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/…
New Funding for Fight Against Citrus Greening
The USDA is pumping more money into research to fight Huanglongbing disease. United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of $25 million in funding for research and…
Shell Eggs: Daily California Eggs
…slow. Shell egg marketer’s benchmark price for negotiated egg sales of USDA Grade AA and Grade AA in cartons, cents per dozen. This price does not reflect discounts or other…
Broiler Hatchery Report
…29, 2013 through June 7, 2014 for the United States were 3.93 billion. Cumulative placements were down slightly from the same period a year earlier. USDA/NASS Broiler Hatchery Report (.pdf)…