Everett Griner talks about the future of agriculture in good hands in today’s Agri View. Future of Agriculture What is the future of agriculture? Or perhaps I should ask with…
E.M. Tharp and World Ag Expo Scholarship Available
World Ag Expo and E.M. Tharp, Inc. have teamed up again to provide the “We Believe in Growing” scholarship, created to support agricultural education. High school seniors from Madera, Fresno,…
Efforts in Senate to Curb Antiquities Act Abuses
…water than any Administration in American history. “Our country is home to some of the most beautiful God-given landscapes in the world. We’re blessed with natural treasures – from the…
Agri View: Cellular Agriculture
Everett Griner talks about cellular farming being the way of the future in today’s Agri View. Cellular Agriculture For those that are concerned the world population when it reaches seven…
Smithfield Cutting Back on Gestation Crates
…growers to support their conversion process. Smithfield’s hog production operations in Poland (AgriPlus) and Romania (Smithfield Ferme) fully converted to group housing facilities on company-owned farms several years ago. Smithfield’s…
Farm Bureau President to Congress: Slash Regulations, Reform Immigration/Ag Labor
…be found here: http://www.fb.org/files/Speech_Transcript.pdf. Connecting with American Farm Bureau #AFBF17 is the official hashtag of AFBF’s 2017 Annual Convention & IDEAg Trade Show. Follow AFBF on Twitter (@FarmBureau) and Facebook….
New Communications Concept – SMART Farm Debuts at CES ®
…electronics show in the world, U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance® (USFRA) introduced a new communications concept, called SMART Farm, aimed at bridging the gap between the acceptance of innovation that’s…
Crops Benefit from Holiday demand
Year-end celebrations may be finished, but a number of California agricultural products continue to feel the benefits of a traditional bump in sales created by increased baking, feasting and toasting…
American Farm Bureau Strongly Endorses Pruitt for EPA
The American Farm Bureau Federation has formally endorsed the nomination of Scott Pruitt as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. AFBF President Zippy Duvall called Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general,…
NMPF, USDEC Statement on Selection of New U.S. Trade Representative
…significantly benefited from the agricultural provisions of prior U.S. free trade agreements. At the same time, however, we face a growing wave of nontariff barriers that threaten to impede overseas…
AFBF Duvall: Nomination of Robert Lighthizer for USTR
…barriers undermine our exports. We must work together to remove these obstacles to prosperity and identify new global opportunities that will benefit American agriculture. “Economic growth in rural America depends…
National Bacon Day
…be hard to argue that there is nothing in this world that doesn’t taste better with bacon. Whether it’s chocolate covered bacon, bacon cheeseburgers, maple bar doughnuts sprinkled with bacon…
Administration Still Fighting for Beef Producers
…Office announced this week that it will take a shot at the European Union regarding its ban on hormones in American beef exports. The World Trade Organization has said in…
U.S. Dairy Exports Quadruple in Value Over 10 years
…the world. The recently released “Growth of U.S. Dairy Exports” report says 2015 wasn’t quite as good. The U.S. began adding to an already large amount of dairy exports in…