…industry is a positive trend, but still not enough to replace those leaving the farming business. Between the same time period, the USDA saw a decrease of 100,000 farmers between…
Farm Profits Expected to Stabilize
…farm income are two conventional measures of farm sector profitability. Net cash farm income measures cash receipts from farming as well as cash farm-related income, including government payments, minus cash…
NIFA Supports Increasing Rural Prosperity through Education, Mentoring, and Technical Assistance Programs for the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
…women, individuals from underrepresented groups, small farmers, aspiring farm workers, and others – into farming and ranching.” BFRDP supports projects that deliver education, mentoring, and technical assistance programs to help…
Register for New Educational Program for Beginning Farmers
A new full-time residential program to educate beginning farmers is now accepting applications for the course that begins in February 2018. The Urban Edge Sustainable Farming Program is being offered…
Survey Shows Young Farmers Ready to Defy Odds
…quit farming and why aspiring farmers haven’t yet started, according to the survey. With the release of the survey, the coalition is calling on Congress to enact a slate of…
NIFA-Support for Education, Mentoring, and Technical Assistance Programs to Help New Farmers and Ranchers
…“BFRDP helps beginning farmers and ranchers improve their success in farming, ranching, and management of nonindustrial private forest lands,” said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. “NIFA funds support projects that give…
USDA Helps Military Veterans Learn Skills for Farming and Ranching Careers
USDA is committed to assisting veterans start or continue farming and ranching operations in order to strengthen the American economy and provide livelihoods to our returning veterans. (Courtesy: USDA) The…
Perdue Hears Concerns of California Farmers
…the regulation, it’s a misdemeanor; second time, it’s a Class E felony. “I don’t want to have farming criminalized any longer,” he said. Dan Sutton, who grows leafy greens in…
USDA Research to Support Environmentally-Friendly Pesticides, Reduction of Methyl Bromide
…to protect the Earth’s ozone layer from ozone-depleting chemicals. Methyl bromide has been used for more than 50 years for a range of pest management purposes in farming, storage, shipment,…
Agri View: Grape Farming Growing
Everett Griner talks about grape farming growing across the country in today’s Agri View. Everett gives us a bit of history of grapes and looks at how grape farming is…
USDA Invests in Integrated Pest Management for Increased Production
…replace methyl bromide, an older, ozone-depleting treatment used in farming, storage, shipment, and quarantine. Among the newly awarded projects is a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University project that will…
Advancing from Sustainable to Regenerative Agriculture
…develop research and different teaching approaches to food and farming systems. The goal is to provide experiential learning opportunities that promote the advancement of food systems that will sequester carbon…
Soilless Production Falls Under Organic Certification
…soilless farming. The issue of soilless production has been a source of conflict within the organic industry for years. Groups who are opposed to continuing to certify hydroponic and aquaponic…
“Growing Together” Latino Farmer Conference an Annual Success
…intensive farming, urban farming, and local foods, and assistance to small farmers and beginning farmers and ranchers. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is the lead USDA partner in…