Twenty-four individuals have been selected for Class 49 of the California Agricultural Leadership Program, an advanced leadership development experience for emerging agricultural leaders. The new fellows will be inaugurated into…
Record Walnut Production Forecasted for 2018
A report that was released recently demonstrates record walnut production for California this year. The 2018 California Walnut Objective Measurement Report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics…
USDA Launches Trade Mitigation Programs
…Food Assistance Program and child nutrition programs. Through the Foreign Agricultural Service’s (FAS) Agricultural Trade Promotion Program (ATP), $200 million will be made available to develop foreign markets for U.S….
USDA Announces No Actions Under Feedstock Flexibility Program
…Farm Bill as an option to avoid sugar forfeitures. USDA’s August 10, 2018, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report (www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde) projects that fiscal year 2018 U.S. ending sugar stocks…
Latest Climate Change Assessment Illustrates Farming Challenges of the Future
…be burned by wildfires, along with a 50 percent increase in the overall number of wildfires by 2100, the report presents information on the effects of climate change on agricultural…
USDA Scientist Receives the Borlaug Field Award
…global hunger and poverty as demonstrated by Norman Borlaug, who received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Rouse, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist, is being honored for his research…
Water Works: Diverse Opposition to the State Water Proposal
…unified voice between the two groups. The San Francisco Bay Area has historically been advocates of environmental causes and directly opposed to agricultural interests, but the Bay-Delta Plan has resulted…
Senator Sanders Wants Big Companies to Pay for SNAP
…the same day the farm bill conferees meet. The bill would impose a 100 percent tax on government benefits including food stamps received by workers at companies with 500 or…
Producers Welcome Help But Want End To Trade Disputes
…bank. Prohibit states from regulating agricultural production practices outside their borders. Reform the visa system to address an agricultural labor shortage. Give USDA oversight of lab-produced cultured protein and gene…
USDA Announces Trade Relief Details
…aid will divide $6.3 billion between the USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), and Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to be distributed through various programs. AMS will administer…
China Grain Imports Plunge Amidst Tariffs
…The trade war has targeted agricultural products from the U.S., including staple imports of pork and soybeans. Meanwhile, China has begun importing pork from Chili and the European Union. Source:…
New Trade Agreement Reached with Mexico
…resolved for our agricultural producers,” the statement read. Canada was also a topic of discussion during the phone call, with President Nieto expressing a desire to see Canada be incorporated…
Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have transferred a biochemical pathway found in sorghum, which produces a weed-killing compound, into rice plants. ARS scientists are waiting to see if these rice…
China Hopeful for FTA with Canada
…for imports outside the United States. The trade war includes tariffs on U.S. agricultural products, presenting potential harm to U.S. farmers. Free trade talks have also slowed between China and…