…receipts are forecast to remain largely unchanged, with large offsetting changes in dairy receipts—up by $4.7 billion, or 13.7 percent, based on forecast higher prices—and cattle/calf receipts, which are forecast…
NASA Report: San Joaquin Valley Land Continues to Sink
…Valley land subsidence due to groundwater extraction was observed as early as the 1920s. The most extensive monitoring and research related to subsidence in the Valley was carried out in…
U.S. Trends in Food Availability
by Jeanine Bentley, Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? Since 1970, the U.S. obesity rate has almost tripled for adults and more than tripled for children and adolescents. Growing…
National Dairy Promotion and Research Board Members Appointed
…Board The Dairy Research and Promotion Program, also known as the Dairy Checkoff Program, is a national producer and importer program for dairy product promotion, research, and nutrition education. To…
January Dairy Market Report
The January Dairy Market Report is now available. Continued growth in domestic butter and cheese consumption, coupled with further recovery of world prices for skim milk powder and whey, strengthened…
Postharvest Practices Influence Cherry Splitting
…able to reduce this cracking by finding engineering concepts, compounds and mitigation techniques to reduce cracking.” Donis-Gonzalez, the lead researcher on the project, recently presented his findings to California cherry…
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Confirmed in South Korea
South Korea has confirmed the presence of foot-and-mouth disease at a dairy farm this week, the first confirmation in the country in nearly a year. Government officials say there is…
USDA Removes Personal information from Animal Welfare Act Documents
…has shared the information online for the last decade, including inspection reports, research facility reports and lists of persons licensed under the Animal Welfare Act. APHIS has also been publishing…
Soy Growers Defend Soymilk
…a supplier of soybeans and soybean meal to soyfoods producers. “As farmers, many ASA members also raise dairy cows; all soybean farmers are feed providers to the dairy industry. More…
Scientists Give Old Elm Tree a High-Tech Helping Hand
By Jan Suszkiw, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) USDA-ARS scientists will try to “cryopreserve” the twigs of this old historical elm in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, to safegaurd the tree’s…
State Agriculture Leaders Call Food Safety a Farm Bill Priority
…Grant Program and the Market Access Program. The group also wants robust funding for research, new tools for animal disease coordination and investments in voluntary conservation programs. NASDA represents the…
ARS Genetics Researcher Named Fairchild Medal Recipient
by Dennis O’Brien, Agricultural Research Service Alan Meerow with Griffinia intermedia (Amaryllidaceae) in Brazil. Photo: Judy Dutilh. Alan W. Meerow, a research geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s (USDA)…
Tomato Growers Evaluate Domestic, Export Markets
…and other crops. Pests and pathogens also loom large among growers’ concerns, and University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisors spoke at the meeting to share their latest research and…
Funding for Plant and Animal Phenomics and Microbiome Projects
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced 11 grants totaling $3 million for Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) projects focused on…