More than Half a Million Americans Involved with Protecting 24 Million Acres The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will issue nearly $1.7 billion in payments to more than half of…
Agri View: Population Growth Challenges
Everett Griner talks about challenges facing us with our population growth in today’s Agri View. Population Growth Challenges Perhaps half of the world population is aware of the need to…
Bonsai Museum Celebrates 40th Anniversary
By Sharon Durham, USDA Agriculture Research Service The United States National Arboretum-National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, located in Washington, D.C.. Operated by the United States Department of Agricultures – Agricultural…
Cancer Agency Asked Experts to Withhold Glyphosate Documents
An exclusive report by Reuters reveals The World Health Organization’s cancer agency advised academic experts not to disclose documents they were asked to release under U.S. freedom of information laws….
Canada PM Warming up to TPP, CETA Still Possible
Canada’s Prime Minister appears to be warming up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement following the stalled negotiations of a trade deal between the European Union and Canada. Justin Trudeau…
Western View: Green is the New Angry
…radical environmentalism, who do not agree that humans have a place in the natural world. In Forbes Magazine, writer Larry Bell reviewed Robert Zubrin’s book “Merchants of Despair”. Mr, Bell…
U.S. Coffee Demand Growing
The International Coffee Organization says coffee consumption in the United States is expected to grow at two percent a year until 2020. The United States is the world’s largest national…
Bullish Agribusiness Opportunities Exist
There are ample agribusiness opportunities available throughout the world, according to Christopher Nolan Sr., managing director and co-head of food, beverage and agribusiness coverage at PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance LLC, who…
Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook
…155,000-STRV increase from the August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), as raised sugarbeet production prospects outweigh reductions in sugarcane production. Total import projections are increased by 27,000 STRV…
Ambassadors Make Case for Lame-Duck TPP Vote
…in a recent event hosted by the National Foreign Trade Council. The trade deal includes the U.S. and other countries that collectively make up 40 percent of the world’s Gross…
Agri View: Controlling Diseases
…pay for, or prevent, diseases. That’s Agri View for today, I’m Everett Griner. Image: Foot-and-mouth disease virus (capsid). This FMDV virus is the causative agent of foot-and-mouth disease. Credit: molekuul_be/Shutterstock…
Promoting the Taste of America in India
…producers and agribusinesses to export their consumer food products. Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Alexis Taylor traveled to India this week where she visited the Foodhall…
Global Wine Output Slipping to 20 Year Low
Global wine volumes are expected to decline this year as adverse weather damaged grapes during the growing season. World wine output could fall by 5.3 percent because of excess rain…
Agriculture in the Classroom: Two Tulare County Teachers Team Up
…education opportunities offered by the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom, visit LearnAboutAg.org. You can also follow the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom on twitter at @LearnAboutAg.…