…percent of known genes, and assigns the data to the 21 wheat chromosomes. This data release represents the IWGSC continued effort to produce a “gold standard reference sequence” – the…
Agri View: Small Towns
…of population change in nonmetro areas fell from 0.7 percent to below zero between 2006 and 2015, metro rates fell only slightly, from 1 percent to 0.9 percent. Chart data…
Drought Alert: Call to Re-examine ‘Harmful Actions’
…support or environmental review. Rather than collecting and analyzing data to make an informed, scientific decision that deals with the many factors influencing the decline of the delta smelt, FWS…
Signup for Cotton Producers Starts June 20
…vast majority of eligible producers and the applications will be pre-populated with existing data. Sign-up for the program will begin June 20 and run through Aug. 5, 2016 at the…
Chinese Pork Prices Continue to Rise
Chinese pork prices climbed to new records this week, according to government data, signaling its auctions of frozen pork reserves and other measures to boost production are doing little to…
USDA Streamlining Crop Reporting
…now electronically share the “common information” with other office locations. FSA Administrator Val Dolcini says “if you file your report at one location, the data that’s important to both FSA…
USDA Launches Ag Resource Management Survey
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is beginning to collect data from more than 100,000 farmers and ranchers for the annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey. The survey looks at all aspects…
USDA Unveils New Improvement to Streamline Crop Reporting
…insurance companies, all working to streamline the information collected from farmers and ranchers who participate in USDA programs. “If you file your report at one location, the data that’s important…
Agri View: Problem for Honeybees
…until 2008 that it was found killing honeybees in the San Francisco area. Some parasitized bees were also confirmed in samples from South Dakota, but so far, no other data…
Agri View: Different Crops
…including cereal, alcohol, sweeteners, and byproduct feeds. ERS offers analysis and data that include: More than 90 million acres of land are planted to corn, with the majority of the…
Almond Board: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Partnership
…test sites have the most potential.” While groundwater is coming under management by the state of California through the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, research and data is critically needed to…
Monsanto Issues Statement on Glyphosate Renewal in EU
…of an agricultural product ever conducted. The risk assessment conducted by Germany and reviewed by the European Food Safety Agency included more than 90,000 pages of data. It also had…
California Walnut Nursery Sales Report
…on the number of walnut trees sold for new plantings. This report summarizes data supplied by California nurseries throughout the State who sold to walnut growers for commercial plantings. Results…
California Walnut Acreage Report
…non-bearing, and total. Detailed data by variety, year planted, and county – as voluntarily reported by walnut growers and maintained in the NASS database. With perfect information, the estimated walnut…