…Stanziani at (202) 720-3334, or email pamela.stanziani@ams.usda.gov. Additional information on the USDA Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee is available online at: www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/facas-advisory-councils/fviac. Details about the meeting are in the…
Markets for U.S. Agricultural Products to Strengthen
…its partners at the University of Maryland and Maryland Farm Bureau developed a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Model Contract and Contracting Guide to help farmers better manage risk and improve…
Superstitious Foods
…fish. Eggs symbolize fertility, so farmers would scatter broken eggs into their fields hoping they would bring forth an abundant crop. Also, if you break open an egg and find…
Brazil Opens Market for U.S. Corn Imports
…date, the United States has not been able to fill the demand due to lack of approvals of some biotech products used by U.S. farmers. However, the Grains Council says…
Agri View: Farmer’s Almanac
Everett Griner talks about the Farmer’s Almanac and what it does for producers in today’s Agri View. Farmer’s Almanac Well the 2017 issue of the Old Farmer’s Almanac will be…
Commentary: Two Examples Demonstrate Regulatory Overreach
…government bureaucrats. It can’t be parodied or made fun of, because no matter what “myth” we farmers might make up, the reality is even worse, and more strange. It’s past…
Taking the Melodrama out of Almond Orchard Recycling
…noon Oct. 13. Almond farmers will remember a UCCE demonstration last February when the 50,000-pound Iron Wolf rolled like a tank through an almond orchard in Chowchilla, ripping whole trees…
Safe Food During Power Outage
…your food, please call the USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) or chat live with a food safety specialist at AskKaren.gov, available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m….
New FSA Cooperatives Help Farmers
The USDA Farm Service Agency has a fairly new way of working with organizations to help farmers. Administrator, USDA Farm Service Agency, Val Dolcini visited California and met with a…
Early-Autumn Weather Affects Coastal Crops
…and gave farmers and ranchers more than one good reason to sweat. In San Luis Obispo County, cattle rancher Joy Fitzhugh expressed concern about the health of her livestock, and…
Preventing Straying of Adult Sacramento River Salmon
…order to boost the odds that those salmon will successfully spawn – and do so without compromising the ability of local farmers to maintain irrigation water levels and manage floods….
New Toolkit for Teachers
…that can be used throughout the school year. Through MyPlate, MyState, USDA is working to make the connection between healthy eating and more than 160,000 farmers and ranchers nationwide that…
Thaw Food with Water
…Thawing Video from USDA Food Safety There are three safe ways to thaw food: in the refrigerator, in cold water, and in the microwave oven. For more information visit: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/foodsafety…
Direct Sales Helps Beginning Farmers to Survive
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says beginning farmers are those who have managed farms for ten year or less. Beginning farmers are less likely to survive in business than those…






















