…billion in sales activity, generated about $87 billion in labor income and contributed over $25 billion in local, state and federal taxes. The research also examined the equipment manufacturing industry’s…
Analyzing Disease Mutations Using Online Cattle Genomes
…sequenced by researchers at the Agricultural Research Service‘s (ARS) U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) in Clay Center, Nebraska. The breeds include Angus, Brangus and Hereford. The publicly accessible information…
Farmers Need Solution to Immigration Challenge
…university researchers estimated that 150,000 employees worked on U.S. dairy farms as of 2014, and that approximately 51 percent of them were immigrants. Because such a large volume of milk…
Subcommittee Evaluates Effectiveness of Specialty Crop Production Programs
Rep. Rodney Davis (IL-13), Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, held a hearing to evaluate the effectiveness of the 2014 Farm Bill programs aimed…
37 Farm Bill Programs Need Budget Baselines After FY 2018
The farm bill contains 37 programs that currently do not have budget baselines after the 2018 fiscal year. The programs account for $2.6 billion in spending. The Congressional Research Service…
National Milk Producers Make Farm Bill Recommendations
…net for the nation’s dairy farmers. The recommendations range from changing the way dairy feed costs are calculated, to providing farmers greater flexibility in signing up for coverage and using…
Harvest Update, ACP and Marketing at Citrus Showcase
…to hear the latest research and a discussion from some of the industry’s top marketers. CCM held its annual Citrus Showcase in Visalia on March 2. Record crowds attended the…
Protect Your Poultry from Avian Influenza
…and Natural Resources researcher, who studies risk factors for the spread of avian influenza, noted that California is within the Pacific Flyway. “We need to increase awareness of poultry producers…
Large Family Farms Continue to Dominate U.S. Agricultural Production
Nearly all farms in the U.S. are designated as family farms, according to new data by the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service. USDA found that in 2015, farms designated…
Global Food Prices Edging Higher
…month and sugar prices increased 1.6 percent. The index shows global vegetable oil prices decreased 7.6 percent. Finally, dairy prices were up slightly from January, but reached the highest level…
Agri View: Milking Robots
Everett Griner talks about milking robots for the dairy of the future in today’s Agri View. Milking Robots What if you owned a dairy of 500 cows and you didn’t…
January Dairy Product Report
…million gallons, up 14.7 percent. Sherbet (hard) – 3.14 million gallons, up 27.4 percent. Frozen yogurt (total) – 4.24 million gallons, up 2.7 percent. Read the full dairy products report….
The Case Against More Farm Bill Funding
…they had, the Farm Bill wouldn’t have been so generous,” says Darren Bakst, Heritage Foundation research fellow. He cited statistics showing that median on-farm income is roughly $77,000, over $20,000…
El Nino May Yet Show Up in 2017
…which experts say just wrapped up a six-month run as cooler Pacific waters along the equator have all but disappeared. This month is the firs time that the International Research…