…pigs.” Lasco Lasco is a territory manager for Smithfield Foods Midwest Production in Roland, Iowa. She assists growers with implementing Smithfield’s industry-leading animal care standards on their farms. “It is…
Bayer AgVocacy Forum Highlights Need for Better Engagement
…we bring ag groups together, we bring food groups together and others,” said Darren Wallis, Vice President of North America Communications for the Crop Science division of Bayer. “It’s really…
USDA Projecting Strong Red Meat, Poultry Exports
…poultry will likely slow during the second half of the next decade. Production efficiency gains continue to enhance the pork sector’s international competitiveness. The U.S. will remain the second-largest pork…
Agri View: Feral Hogs Hitting Hard
…will eat anything. They will root up the ground and destroy the land. They like golf courses just as well as they do crop land. It looks like poison is…
California Vegetables More Than Half of U.S. Total
…places California at a whopping $7.85 billion in vegetable production – over half of the U.S. total of $13.8 billion. Where are all of these amazing crops grown? Let’s take…
Agri View: Technology Expanding
…of the world would be hungry. It is more than just driverless tractors. It is satellite guided planting systems, crop irrigation, plant disease, and insect control. Now, it is drones….
Confirmation of Northey for USDA Applauded
…directed by the 2014 Farm Bill. The creation of the new mission area prompted the realignment of several agencies under a newly-named Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC),…
Celebrating National Pistachio Day
…little or no rain and must have high heat. California produces about 300 million pounds of pistachios each year, accounting for 98 percent of America’s production. All pistachio shells are…
Perdue Advocates for Crop Insurance Program
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue walked a tightrope while talking with reporters about President Trump’s budget proposals that agriculture wasn’t enamored with. One of the proposals included cuts to crop…
Section 199A Fix Is Coming
…the Domestic Production Activities Deduction. That tax break amounted to about nine percent of a cooperative’s income and up to half the amount of wages paid to cooperative workers. Cooperatives…
CalAgJobs Fundraising Efforts to Benefit California FFA
…connect agricultural employers in California with qualified potential employees. CalAgJobs was recently awarded a USDA grant to promote specialty crops, allowing the company to host free internship listings. “The idea…
USDA Opens New Office in Vietnam to Help Facilitate Increasing Agricultural Trade
…for American farmers who set the worldwide standard for food production.” “Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing global markets for U.S. farm and food products, currently ranking as our 11th-largest…
How Potential ADM, Bungee Merger Would Impact Farmers
…week that, however, unlike mergers in the seed business, there still is a fair amount of competition in crop marketing. Hart says there are “plenty of marketing outlets” independent from…
Joint Ventures in Dairy Increasing
…U.S. has heavily invested in milk production, Europe and other regions that faced production constraints focused their effort and investment on technology for the processing sector. And, in 2017, many…