…nutrition policies, helping ensure that we have agricultural workers, and implementing new food labeling laws. We will be working closely with him on these and other issues in the coming…
Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture
…The researchers plan to show they can conserve more water through co-robotics, with workers interacting with technology for precision irrigation, ideally at the individual plant level. This comes from looking…
Blum Center Relaunching With Focus on Food
…The focus on food, he said, has direct ties to UC efforts and is vastly relevant to this region. “It’s not uncommon for people who live in agricultural areas to…
Dairy Trade in the Trump Era
…same can be said for many other U.S. agricultural commodities – from grains and oilseeds to beef and pork. As I noted in a letter sent to the new President…
Western View: Living History at a State Park
…agricultural dynamo in which we live. There are four parks that, in my opinion, teach us a lot about the people who came before us. These parks celebrate the diverse…
House Agriculture Committee Meets
…implementation. We also recently wrapped up a two-year, top-to-bottom review of SNAP, and we examined the benefits of biotechnology, the future of agricultural trade, the importance of agriculture to our…
Brazil Proposes Opening Farmland for Foreign Ownership
The President of Brazil plans to propose legislation to lift restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land in the nation in an effort to pull its economy out a two-year…
Agri View: Hard Choices
…be facing a shortage of food right now if were not for migrant farm workers. So more than a few farmers are concerned about the incoming administration. Even now there…
Statistics Available for California Crop Year 2015
…In 2015, California exported approximately 26 percent of its agricultural production by volume, accounting for $20.69 billion in value. California’s leading agricultural export products by value are almonds ($5.14 billion),…
Monsanto to Appeal California Glyphosate Ruling
…nation’s leading agricultural state, saying California officials illegally based their decision to require the labels on information from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, according to the LA Times….
Refugee Regulations Could Squeeze U.S. Meatpackers Labor Pool
An executive order by President Donald Trump to suspend refugee arrivals could harm meatpacking companies. The Wall Street Journal reports meatpackers that rely on foreign-born workers to fill tough jobs…
Agri View: Feeding America
…American Falls, Idaho, USA. Image of a conveyor belt in a food processing facility, and workers sorting russet potatoes. Stock photo ID: 382784428 Editorial credit: B Brown / Shutterstock, Inc….
Making Spinach with Low Oxalate Levels
by Sharon Durham, Agricultural Research Service ARS geneticist Beiquan Mou and colleagues analyzed hundreds of spinach plants to find ones with less oxalate, a compound linked to kidney stones. Photo…
USDA NASS Conducting Certified Organic Survey
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is conducting the 2016 Certified Organic Survey to gather new data on certified organic crops and livestock commodities in…