…rise in Wisconsin’s production. The transient nature of large dairy farms isn’t new, but some non-traditional dairy states like Colorado and South Dakota are drawing possible relocation interest from dairy…
Ag Groups React to New GIPSA Rules
…companies may decide instead to own the farms and hire full-time employees to care for animals. Tom Super of the National Chicken Council says his farmers aren’t interested in government…
What Does Trump Win Mean for Ag
…United States rule, which is a disaster, and provide desperately needed tax relief.” Trump has pledged to lower the tax rate on family farms to 15 percent and stop the…
Alberta Beef Producers Want TB Support
…current status, with all provinces considered to be Bovine TB-free. During a bovine TB investigation, quarantines and movement restrictions are placed on any implicated farms. Testing, humane destruction, and disposal…
USDA Data Shows Number of Midsize Farms Declining
…the increasing profitability of large farms limit the role of midsize farms in modern agriculture. During the same period, the number of large farms more than doubled. The data also…
Scientists Work to Define Threat from Palm Pest
…Albert Keck, who runs Hadley Date Farms in Thermal and chairs the California Date Commission, attended last week’s meeting and described date growers as “very concerned.” “We don’t want the…
USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
…for small livestock operations, like the dairy farms or small beef farms common in Pennsylvania, will help ensure that livestock operations of varying scales and across the country have an…
Funding to Ensure Access to Needed Veterinary Services
…of all Americans from farms to the kitchen table and from the air we breathe to the energy that powers our country. Learn more about the many ways USDA scientists…
Canada Investigating Bovine Tuberculosis
Around 30 farms in southeastern Alberta, Canada are under quarantine as Canada attempts to track down cattle exposed to bovine tuberculosis (TB). CBC News of Canada reports the investigation stems…
Lab System Aims to Protect State’s Livestock
…expensive—outbreak of avian influenza, with millions of birds depopulated. Cutler said California poultry farms avoided a catastrophe thanks in large part to the work of the California Animal Health and…
Food and Forestry Research and Development Projects
…and development touching the lives of all Americans from farms to the kitchen table and from the air we breathe to the energy that powers our country. Learn more about…
Calls for New Relief Provisions in Next Farm Bill
…Bill. Very few farms have signed up for the Whole Farm Revenue Protection Program which is designed to help smaller and more diversified farms. Those farms also haven’t signed up…
Agri View: World’s Best
…few years back. Although he farms in the county that borders the one where I live, I have never met Mr. Dowdy but I do read of his accomplishments. How…
NMPF Pres. Commemorates Centennial / Sets Path for Future
…heart push their agenda at our expense,” he said. The dairy farming landscape – and the world outside of it – have changed considerably, Mulhern began. The numbers of farms…