…can be found on the NRCS website. Since 2009, USDA has invested more than $29 billion to help producers make conservation improvements, working with as many as 500,000 farmers, ranchers…
Presidents Who Farmed
…farming. His family moved around as farmers, eventually settling in Indiana. But it’s his birthplace farm, in Knob Creek Kentucky, preserved as a National Park’s Service historic site and can…
Agri View: Weather Damage
…Dairymen Darren Turley said that an estimated 15,000 mature dairy cows died between Lubbock, Muleshoe and Friona, the primary impact area of the storm, AP also reports. This region includes…
Fresh Express $500,000 for Safety Research Campaign
…Top, Inc. Loblaw Companies Limited California Pear Advisory Board California Tomato Farmers Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association Giant Eagle, Inc. Monsanto Company * Pasquinelli Produce Company Rice Fruit Company…
Ethanol Committee Visits California’s Low Carbon Economy
…there have been improvements made in the GHG number assigned to corn ethanol by CARB, corn farmers feel there is more work to be done in order for CARB to…
2016 Commodity Classic Teams with New Orleans Charities
…personal favorite by contributing to the charity of your choice. Commodity Classic has partnered with two New Orleans-based charities—Second Harvest and The Roots of Music—to give America’s farmers the opportunity…
Farm Planning for The Future
…help farm families do just that. David Specht – Farm Planning We caught up with Specht at the World Ag Expo and asked him for tips for farmers as they…
House Agriculture Committee Questions EPA ‘Burdensome Policies’
…balanced for California crops. Listen to the questions and answers from the EPA hearing between Costa and McCarthy “America’s farmers, ranchers, and foresters are the original conservationists who take great…
USDA Announces $58.25 Million to Protect Ag and Plants from Pests and Diseases
…to farmers and ranchers; strengthening risk management tools; expanding access to rural credit; funding critical research; establishing innovative public-private conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in…
CornPAC Launches Website, Preps for Auction in New Orleans
…also learn more about the PAC and its role in our advocacy efforts. “Corn farmers are directly affected by the makeup of Congress. CornPAC is one tool we use to…
Third Farm in Ca. Awarded Top Grassfed and Animal Welfare Certification
…USDA Grassfed label, for example, farmers can confine their cattle on dirt feedlots for long periods outside the growing season, or use growth hormones and subtherapeutic antibiotics, and yet still…
Ron Craft to Lead National Cotton Ginners Association
…Economic Policy and Cotton Flow committees and on its Quality Task Force. Also announced at NCGA’s annual meeting was that Louis Colombini, manager of the Westside Farmers Coop Gins in…
‘My Job Depends on Ag’ at the World Ag Expo
…stories, images and more, directly from the farmers, ranchers and other agricultural support businesses, whose daily lives – and livelihoods – are affected every day by agriculture in this country….
ASTA Participates in FarmNext National Summit
American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) President and CEO Andrew LaVigne joined more than 60 young farmers, policymakers and industry thought-leaders from across the nation for the FarmNext Summit in Washington,…