…as unprecedented water shortages force farmers into difficult decisions. Some farmers have decided to bulldoze groves; others will pay many times the usual price for water, in some cases just…
Farmers Targeted in Phone Scam
…more on a new phone scam targeting farmers. Phone scam targets farmers Someone is targeting farmers in a new phone scam. They are calling farmers, identifying themselves as being with…
Clean Water Rules Comment Period Extended
…to American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman – and a clear signal that America’s farmers know how to stand up and be counted. Stallman says EPA has misled the regulated…
New Waterways Law Benefits Agriculture, Consumers
…American Farm Bureau. AFBF’s Seanica Otterby has the story. New Waterways Law The Water Resources Reform and Development Act is important not just to agriculture – but also everyday consumers…
More Cling Peach Acreage Needed
California growers are getting an incentive to increase cling peach production. According to the California Farm Bureau, farmers who planted new cling peach orchards have the opportunity to get 20-year…
Cotton Producers to Examine Montana Agricultural Operations
…Cotton Foundation with a grant from Deere & Company. The exchange is designed to provide the program’s participants with: 1) a better understanding of production issues/concerns faced by their peers…
USDA Farm Service Agency Phone Scam Alert
Farm Service Agency has become aware that scam phone calls are being made to customers regarding disaster payments. The caller identifies themselves as being from Farm Loan Services in Washington,…
Service Agency County Committee Nomination Period Begins June 15
…decisions on disaster and conservation programs, emergency programs, commodity price support loan programs and other agricultural issues. Members serve three-year terms. Nationwide, there are about 7,800 farmers and ranchers serving…
Questions Remain With Lower Limb Die-back
Little is still known about a decades-old issue in almonds. University of California Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor David Doll blogged last week about the concerns of lower limb die-back in…
Organizations Confirm Support for Biotech Wheat
…addition of broad-based groups like the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmers Union to a wide coalition of wheat organizations in the three countries. The signatories call for…
Time to End Trade Talks with Japan?
Grassley Agriculture Senator Chuck Grassley is joining key farm groups in saying it may be time to move on without Japan in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks. Sabrina Hill has…
More Water Users Receive Notices of Curtailment
…in abundance for the last couple of years,” said Chris Scheuring, California Farm Bureau Federation environmental attorney. “But, as painful as curtailment is for many family farmers, the state board…
USDA Announces Programs to Conserve Sensitive Land and Help Beginning Farmers
…and other FSA programs, visit a local FSA county office or go online to www.fsa.usda.gov. Both the CRP and TIP were reauthorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. The Farm Bill…
AFBF on Future of Immigration Reform
Immigration reform is a top priority for the American Farm Bureau. AFBF ag labor specialist Kristi Boswell says Farm Bureau has been working very hard to see reform move forward…