…comprehensive measure of agricultural performance than crop yields or labor productivity because it accounts for all measurable resources of production (land, labor, materials, capital) instead of only land or labor….
Funding to Support the Agricultural Sciences
…groundbreaking discoveries that combat childhood obesity, improve and sustain rural economic growth, address water availability issues, increase food production, find new sources of energy, mitigate climate variability, and ensure food…
USDA Announces $4.8 Million Available to Support Food Safety Outreach Program
…Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) food safety guidelines into a variety of agricultural production and processing systems, including conventional, sustainable and organic systems. New projects will focus on, but are not…
Executive Order Creates New Agriculture Panel
…national interest to ensure that regulatory burdens do not unnecessarily encumber agricultural production, constrain economic growth, hamper job creation, or increase the cost of food for Americans and our customers…
Sonny Perdue Sworn in as 31st U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
…and not lament that the department might be faced with difficult challenges. As a youngster growing up on a dairy and diversified row crop farm in rural Georgia, Perdue never…
Historic White House Ag Roundtable Discussion Includes California Farmer
…House to showcase the diverse nature of agriculture production in the U.S. California will be represented by A.G. Kawamura of California, third-generation fruit and vegetable grower and shipper from Orange…
Syngenta Corn Lawsuits Underway
…huge corn crop in 2013 that pushed prices lower. In June, Syngenta faces trial in a class-action lawsuit brought by Kansas farmers seeking $200 million, plus punitive damages. Another trial…
Ag Groups Pleased With Perdue Confirmation
…strong production and agribusiness background makes him keenly aware of U.S. agriculture’s critical importance in: 1) feeding and clothing this country and the world, 2) powering this nation’s economy and…
RFA to EPA: Keep the RFS on Track in 2018
…production and are on pace to produce a record supply of 16 billion gallons of conventional renewable fuel in 2017, well above the 15-billion-gallon conventional renewable fuel RVO. Meanwhile, refiners…
Farm Lending Continues to Moderate
…in the farm sector are still weak, so borrowers and lenders have worked together to make adjustments in financing agricultural production across America. Ag lenders are making more adjustments to…
Agri View: Spring Crop Damage
Everett Griner talks about spring brings more bad weather, and damage, to the fruit crops in today’s Agri View. Spring is always a welcomed time of year…
California Milk Production Report
California milk producers had a total of 1.76 million milk cows for March that produced 3.50 billion pounds of milk. Milk production is up 12 percent from February, 2017…
Pacific Region Poultry and Egg Production Report
California Egg Production California’s egg production during March totaled 294 million, up 28 million from February’s production but down 3 million from March 2016. The all layers during the month…
RFA Celebrates Earth Day 2017
…but would have been 33% without the addition of 15.3 billion gallons of ethanol to the fuel supply. Looked at another way, 2016 ethanol production displaced an amount of gasoline…