…in the first quarter of 2017. Farmland Values and Cash Rents Farmland values continued to wane in the fourth quarter, according to the Tenth District Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions….
Planners Report on Implementing Groundwater Law
…is a partner in the process. “The Farm Bureau has been very, very helpful. They’ve been at all of the meetings and are bringing all of the agricultural interests to…
USGC, RFA, Growth Energy Urge Administration to Address China Trade Tariffs on Ethanol, DDGs
…DDGS exports. By the end of 2016, China had become the U.S. ethanol industry’s third-largest export market, receiving nearly 20 percent of total exports. Nearly 200 million gallons of ethanol…
Strong Finish for 2016 Red Meat Exports: New Volume Record for Pork
…trend Although U.S. lamb exports were down in 2016, this was largely due to a sharp decline in variety meat exports. While total exports fell 11 percent in volume (8,248…
National Dairy Promotion and Research Board Members Appointed
…Appointees were selected from nominations submitted by eligible producer organizations, general farm organizations and qualified dairy products promotion, research or nutrition education programs. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) monitors the…
January Dairy Market Report
…lower throughout 2016. In addition, the use of nonfat dry milk and skim milk powder continues to drop steadily as exports recover and pull more skim solids away from the…
Ag Producers’ Confidence Surges During January
…five years from now than they face today (Figure 6). Figure 6. Producers’ expectations of agricultural regulations in five years. Ag Thought Leaders On a quarterly basis, 100 agricultural thought…
Agriculture Groups Stress Importance of Trade
More than 80 agriculture groups signed off on a letter to President Donald Trump Tuesday, calling on the administration to reduce and eliminate tariffs and other restrictive agricultural policies in…
Ethanol Exports Reached Record-High 1.01 Billion Gallons in 2016
…the leading ethanol export product, accounting for 51 percent of total exports in 2016; and Exports to South America and East Asia had explosive growth in 2016, increasing 118 percent…
Trump Urged To Start Trade Talks With Japan
…to TPP countries would grow by $387 million, with most of the exports going to Japan. Nearly 9,000 U.S. jobs would be generated by increased exports of livestock products, according…
Scientists Give Old Elm Tree a High-Tech Helping Hand
By Jan Suszkiw, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) USDA-ARS scientists will try to “cryopreserve” the twigs of this old historical elm in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, to safegaurd the tree’s…
First Syngenta Viptera Corn Case Scheduled for June
…the United States. That’s because the discovery of MIR162 in export shipments lead to a pause in corn exports to China, a move the farmers claim depressed corn prices. All…
Farm Groups Endorse Agriculture Secretary Nominee Perdue
…669 agricultural organizations endorsed Sonny Perdue, the nominee for Agriculture Secretary. A Trump transition team official says the letter was written on behalf of “farmers, ranchers…and all other segments of…
Trump: Change NAFTA to NAFFTA
…see it dismantled. Trump says the current deal is “very unfair” to American workers and companies that do business in the United States. Agricultural trade between Canada, Mexico and the…