…State University, Corvallis, received an NIFA grant of $294,000, funded jointly by the Washington State Potato Commission, to improve data management tracking of potato early-dying disease. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and…
Dairy Industry Welcomes Swift Action by USTR Lighthizer to Launch NAFTA Modernization Efforts
…the renegotiation process to provide helpful data and input.” “We agree with Ambassador Lighthizer that the current NAFTA agreement has areas upon which we can build as the renegotiation process…
NMPF Facilitates NCIMS Passage of Proposals to Enhance Safety of Dairy Foods
…widespread participation in the program starting July 1 would assure any future changes in milk testing “can be based on the most representative and complete data available,” according to the…
Citrus Group Sues USDA Over Lemons
…process under the Obama administration and now the Trump administration is laden with hypocrisy, ignores transparency, and dismisses the scientific and economic data that prove the rule will have significant…
NAFTA Modernization Must Not Disrupt Pork Exports
…more than one-third of total U.S. exports, adding $80 billion to the U.S. economy and supporting more than 3 million American jobs, according to data from the Office of the…
USDA Seeks Feedback From California and Nevada Growers
…States for the 2017 crop year. Everyone who relies on agriculture for their livelihoods is interested in the results.” NASS gathers the data for the June Agricultural Survey online, by…
Canada Ag Census Shows Increase in Young and Women Farmers
…Canadian agriculture will be published with further analysis of census results. Agricultural data has been collected in Canada since 1666 and 2016 marks the 22nd Census of Agriculture since Confederation….
Overall Tractor Sales Trending Higher in 2017
…month. Sales of combines for the year total 1,034 a decrease of 12 percent from 2016. Click here to view the latest market data from AEM. Read more on tractor…
Almond Board: Nitrogen Calculator
…vegetative growth, as well Enables efficient fertilizer use Has a library of fertilizers in pull-down menus for easy rate calculations, based on data you put into the system Calculates nitrogen…
2016 California Raisin Grape Mechanical Harvest Report
…past nine years to gather information on raisin-type acreage that is harvested mechanically. In addition to the mechanical harvest data, producers were asked to update acreage by variety and year…
Another Study Calls Dairy Fats OK
…meta-analyses with summarised dose–response data were performed for total (high-fat/low-fat) dairy, milk, fermented dairy, cheese and yogurt. Non-linear associations were investigated using the spine models and heterogeneity by subgroup analyses….
Changes Needed in Farm Bill Safety Net Outlined at Senate Hearing
…for businesses like mine, participation in the program will increase.” Siemen said that in addition to adjusting the feed cost formula and the data sources for the prices of feed…
Record Volume for U.S. Pork Exports in March; Beef Exports Remain Strong
…a BSE-related suspension was imposed more than 13 years ago. The first significant export volumes for Brazil will likely appear in the May USDA data, which will be available in…
2016 California Wine Sales in U.S. Hit New Record
…value for wine was calculated with an updated methodology that uses a wide variety of government, private, and other statistical data that have not historically been available, such as the…