…last year. The mailbox milk price in 2015 averaged $15.94 per cwt., a decline of 28.7 percent from the previous year. Click here to access CDFA cost of production data….
Strengthening Dairy Safety Net Program Must be Priority as Farm Bill Discussions Commence
…were in place. NMPF is also asking that Congress direct the Agriculture Department to obtain more precise data for the prices dairy farmers are paying for corn, soybean meal and…
Census Of Agriculture Countdown Begins For America’s Farmers And Ranchers
…U.S. farms, ranches, and those who operate them. “The Census of Agriculture remains the only source of uniform, comprehensive, and impartial agriculture data for every county in the nation,” said…
RFA Applauds Administration for Recalling Fuel Economy Rules, Allowing for a More Comprehensive Approach
Dinneen In response to the Trump administration’s decision recalling EPA’s federal fuel economy and emissions rules, and allowing for a data-driven review of the 2022-2025 standards, Renewable Fuels Association President…
Ozone Pollution Damages China Rice Production
…chemical building blocks for atmospheric ozone. For this study, the researchers examined existing air quality data as well as rice yield statistics from the 2006, 2008 and 2010 growing seasons…
Analyzing Disease Mutations Using Online Cattle Genomes
…to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists, a genomic database of U.S. beef cattle is now available online. The complete genomes of 96 bulls representing different U.S. cattle breeds were…
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…
Analysts Say Bacon Shortage Not Likely
…demise of Chicago Mercantile Exchange belly trading pit. The Department of Agriculture data for January on pork bellies, from which bacon is made, put total stocks at 14 million pounds….
Agri View: Food Labeling
…at the nutritional data that is required by law to be posted. That law has been in effect since 2010. But it alerts you to the fat content, the caloric…
Congress Reintroduces Legislation to Cut Red Tape For Conservationists
…System for Award Management (SAM) and obtain a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number to receive financial assistance from federal agencies like NRCS. Mandating that farmers and ranchers comply with…
Influence of Income and Prices on Global Dietary Patterns by Country, Age, and Gender
…and countries/regions. How Was the Study Conducted? Comprehensive data of global consumption patterns available from the Global Dietary Database (2010) were used in this research. The database contains intake data…
Almond Board: Commitment to Research
…of California, Davis, Brent Holtz and Amélie Gaudin: Potential of Whole Orchard Recycling to Build Sustainability and Resilience of Almond Production · University of California, Davis, Patrick Brown: Data-Driven Block-Level…
U.S. Distillers Grains Exports Reached 11.48 Million Metric Tons in 2016
…2016, down 10 percent from 2015’s record-high but still the second-highest on record, according to a 10-page summary of 2016 ethanol co-product trade data published today by the Renewable Fuels…
New FARM Program Environmental Stewardship Module Helps Measure Improvements in Dairy Sustainability
…63 percent smaller carbon footprint than it did 70 years ago. The FARM Environmental Stewardship program captures more detailed data on these great advances, while at the same time presenting…