…The organization has over 6.5 million members in the United States, from ages 5 to 21, in approximately 90,000 clubs. The organization which was founded back in 1902 and is…
Western View: Got Gas?
…cattlemen, but now the cow is the subject of a lot of study and there’s a lot of work going on to reduce their emissions. Dairies and cattle feed lots…
Livestock Sales Bill Clears Senate, Heads to White House
…backed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Sheep Industry Association, Livestock Marketing Association, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, National Farmers Union, National Livestock Producers Association, and United States Cattlemen’s Association….
Pacific Region Cattle/Livestock Review
…United States Cattle on Feed Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 10.1 million…
Updated Indemnity Calculator for Laying Hens
The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is updating its indemnity calculator formula for laying hens, effective October 1, 2016. The updated formula was…
NIFA Awards Community Food Projects
…With programs such as this we are able promote efforts to decrease food insecurity through healthy diets and nutrition education.” The USDA report, Household Food Security in the United States,…
Clean Water Act: Report Details how Agencies Expand Authority
…act. Landowners’ concerns stem from a rule the agencies finalized last year, known as the “waters of the United States” or WOTUS rule, which would bring more waterways under jurisdiction…
Funding for Farmers Markets / Food Promotion Programs
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released details of the $26.8 million in Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program grants announced by Agriculture Secretary…
Flooding to Shut Down Mississippi River Shipping Temporarily
…and western Wisconsin have swamped farmlands in those states and are causing concerns about the conditions of the corn and soybean crops ahead of the fall harvest. From the National…
Agri View: Food Waste
…It also shows that most of them can be well fed with food that is wasted. As a good example, in the United States alone we throw out twenty-nine million…
Known Sorghum Pest Spotted in California
…United States for a while. It’s just new to California and has been reported this year,” Dahlberg said. “I think what’s happened is we have seen an increase in sorghum…
USDA Launches Cage-Free Egg Report
…shell egg estimated production in the United States, based off of organic and cage-free flock size estimates collected by USDA. Information for the report is collected from weekly retail advertised…
China places Anti-Dumping Duties on U.S. DDGs
…to Pro Farmer’s First Thing Today. China is the world’s top buyer of DDGs, a by-product of corn ethanol. China imports almost all of its DDGs from the United States,…
Chance for TPP Passage Slim
…in the House to approve the trade deal. Other countries are holding out on approval, pending action by the United States. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….