…Agriculture; County Estimates and Farm Structure Panel update; response rate research; big data overview; National Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) communications plan; a new online Census response tool; and the Agricultural…
Farm Profits and Adoption of Precision Agriculture
…technologies: Yield monitors that produce the data for GPS-based mapping are the most widely adopted, used on about half of all corn (2010) and soybean (2012) farms, while guidance or…
Officials Warn of Flash Flood Potential
…multi-agency data to understand detailed, real-time ground conditions, helping to inform officials of developing areas of flood concern. The NWS is responsible for issuing flood watches and warnings to the…
California Wild Pig Problems: How Much?
…survey to help track the pigs. “When we get enough data, we will be able to analyze where we are finding this damage, how much damage is out there, and…
Critical European Grapevine Moth Safeguarding Milestone Recognized
…grape industry, provided APHIS and its partners with the best available science and data to combat EGVM. Based on their recommendations, APHIS and its partners designed an eradication program that…
Help for Low-Income Families to Purchase Fruits and Veggies
…USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. Vilsack “Recent data shows that 2015 marked the lowest figures on record for food insecurity among…
Additional Lender Category for Small-Scale Operators
…their food with more than $1 billion in investments to over 40,000 local and regional food businesses and infrastructure projects since 2009. Industry data estimates that U.S. local food sales…
Almond Board: Spatial Database Project
…almond acreage data and mapping for four points in time: 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016. This cumulative data will be descriptive of how and where the almond industry’s acreage has grown…
Trade Wars Could Cost California 640,000 Jobs
…estimated 176,000 jobs alone by 2019, according to data from the Peterson Institute. The date includes campaign pledges of a 45 percent tariff on China and a 35 percent tariff…
USDA Taking Action Regarding Low Survey Responses
…Farmer proclaims the data included in USDA reports is especially important considering crop yield data is one of the factors used to calculate payments under the 2014 Farm Bill. From…
USDA/NIFA Awards $4.7 M for Food Safety Outreach, Education
…regional food businesses and infrastructure projects since 2009. Industry data estimates that U.S. local food sales totaled at least $12 billion in 2014, up from $5 billion in 2008. More…
Western View: The Most Dangerous Highway?
…wonder about the company that put together the report. It’s called ValuePenguin, and specializes in personal financial analysis. The data they used for this study doesn’t make sense. The report…
Strong Push on TPP in Lame-Duck
…not only support the agreement but also to help grow that support is hard data on the benefits of TPP for their constituents,” added Wilkins. “This document does exactly that.”…
Profit Outlook for 2016 Still Negative
…finds the outlook is negative for corn and wheat and is near the break-even point for soybeans. The forecast was based on data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and…