…He and his group also have addressed other agricultural traits crucial to improving food security such as local adaptation, drought tolerance, and disease resistance. As a champion of open data…
Maintaining Pork Exports to Canada, Mexico Critical
…services, accounting for 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…
Fourth Quarter 2016 Farm Lending Slows
…outstanding farm sector debt at commercial banks continued to rise, but at a slower pace. Survey data indicated outstanding debt increased five percent from a year ago. The Fed attributed…
Georgia Agriculture Under Former Governor Sonny Perdue
…of Georgia in 2003, the state saw an increase in agricultural sales under Perdue’s watch. In 2002, USDA Data shows 49,000 farms made $4.9 billion in sales. By 2012, the…
Role of Fossil Fuels in the U.S. Food System and the American Diet
…structure of the ERS Food Dollar accounts. The result is a first-of-its-kind U.S. environmentally extended input-output data system and model called the Food Environment Data System (FEDS). We conduct regression…
2017 California Processing Tomato Report
…season. The data reported by processors was either tonnage with derived acreage, or acreage with derived tonnage. As of January, California’s tomato processors reported they have, or will have, contracts…
Common Crop Chemical Leaves Bees Susceptible to Deadly Viruses
…to growers,” he said. “Based on the California Department of Pesticide Regulation data for agrochemical applications to almonds, there has been increasing use of organosilicone adjuvants during crop blooming periods,…
State Water Project Allocation Increased
…– 50 percent 2009 – 40 percent 2008 – 35 percent 2007 – 60 percent 2006 – 100 percent DWR’s California Data Exchange Center Web sites show current water conditions…
Proposal to Establish a New Organic Research, Promotion, and Information Order
…marketplace, and to improve access to information and data across the organic sector. A proposed rule with information about the proposed program will be published in the Jan. 18, 2017…
Evaluating Chemicals that May Pose Risk
…to generate and provide data on chemicals they produced. EPA is proposing three rules to help administer the new process. They are: Inventory rule. There are currently over 85,000 chemicals…
USDA Proposes Adjusted Membership on Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board
…beef product import data from 2013 through 2016. The revised representation would be effective with nominations in 2017 for appointments effective early in 2018. Details of the proposed changes will…
Corn, Soybean Production Up in 2016
…million acres, is up 7 percent from 2015. The 2016 corn objective yield data indicate the third highest number of ears per acre on record for the combined objective yield…
River-Flow Plan Moves to Written Comment Stage
…is inadequate, D’Adamo requested additional data on the combined effects of the SED and the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. The director of government affairs for the California Cattlemen’s Association, Kirk…
Analysis Reaffirms Ethanol’s GHG Emissions Reduction Benefits
…study after such a comprehensive and thorough analysis, using real world data and peer-reviewed assumptions. This should answer the critics who have repeated Big Oil’s polemic that renewable biofuels somehow…