…of that period. This has led to a drastic reduction in the number of farmers paying premiums to selecting higher levels of margin protection. Most are now only paying the…
NACD Applauds Appropriations Bill in Support of Conservation
…NACD is pleased no reductions were proposed in mandatory funding for most conservation programs, we were disappointed that Congress kept a $300 million reduction in mandatory funding for the already…
International Trade and Deforestation: Potential Policy Effects via a Global Economic Model
…leads to expansion of global cropland by 0.40 percent or 6.3 million hectares (Mha) and pasture by 0.29 percent (7.8 Mha), but a reduction in forest land of 0.88 percent…
Western View: Is Global Warming Real?
…baseline was abnormally high anyway, that 10 per cent reduction doesn’t seem significant. But also, Taylor’s reference data shows that in late 2012, polar ice dramatically rebounded and quickly surpassed…
Almond Board: Air Quality Programs
…cleaner model-year off-road diesel engines. The California Air Quality Initiative is available in California and includes three separate initiatives: Particulate Matter Reduction: Agricultural operations can be sources of “fugitive dust”…
Reebok to Manufacture Shoes Made from Corn, Organic Cotton
…the next range of shoes. We want to take the entire cycle into account; to go from dust to dust.” For the Cotton + Corn initiative, Reebok partnered with DuPont…
State Releases Plan to Make Water Conservation a Way of Life
…efficient irrigation systems.” After Governor Brown called for a 25 percent reduction in urban water use in 2015, Californians rose to the challenge and saved 24 percent during the 12…
USDA County-Level Data Dispute New NWF Study
…witnessed reductions—not expansions—in cropland between 1997 and 2012. Specifically, we found: Cropland in the counties with ethanol plants fell by 2.02 million acres, or 3.5 percent, between 1997 and 2012….
USDA Expands Meat and Poultry Hotline Hours
…the reduction of foodborne illness, and one way to contribute to that reduction is to increase public awareness of safe food handling information. FSIS’ Meat and Poultry Hotline has been…
Almond Board: Big Increase for Low-Dust Incentive
An incentive program that makes it more affordable for almond and walnut producers to implement low-dust harvesting equipment has more than doubled. The Almond Board of California added that growers…
NFU Urges Trump Administration to Oppose Dow-DuPont Merger
…merger, if approved by the U.S. Justice Department, would create the largest biotechnology and seed firm in the U.S. “The reduction in competition that would be wrought by a Dow-DuPont…
Trump Document Proposes Cuts to 2017 USDA, FDA Spending
…by April 28th to avoid a government shutdown. The cuts are aimed at the last five months of the current fiscal year and would compound the 21 percent proposed reduction…
Subcommittee Examines Farm Policy in Advance of the Next Farm Bill
…years—four times the estimate at passage. The agricultural community has repeatedly answered the call for deficit reduction. In light of that, it is important that we craft strong and effective…
Agri View: Changing Weather
…the increase in damaging storms was due to one thing. The warmer winter. Now I am reading that we could have another dust bowl. Worse than the one that occurred…