…like the rest of our major commodities, but with a weaker safety net,” Perdue said. “In particular, cotton producers confront high input and infrastructure costs, which leaves them more financially…
Celebrating National Nutrition Month
…food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. This year’s theme for National Nutrition Month® is “Go Further with Food.” Whether it’s starting the day off right with…
Senate Confirms Key USTR Nominees
…signed onto a letter with other commodity organizations and agri-business companies, urging prompt confirmation of these nominees. The letter noted that:1) U.S. food and agricultural exports have produced a trade…
Agri View: Eating Healthier
…spend it for prepared foods, it is a healthier food. Everything considered, millennials are healthier than the previous generation. They don’t just live on pasta. That’s Agri View for today….
Bayer AgVocacy Forum Highlights Need for Better Engagement
…what it doesn’t do, and importantly how it helps their daily lives in terms of improving food costs and putting safe, affordable food on their table,” Wallis said. Listen…
California Young Farmers and Ranchers Win Big at National Conference
…across the country spent over 9,000 hours volunteering and donated nearly 30 million pounds of food, along with $1.1 million to food banks. “California is very active in this program…
Kitchen Spices to Keep Around
…some with medicinal uses (such as digestion and fighting colds), as well cancer-fighting properties. They will also add some much-needed flavor to any food that might be considered bland. So…
Agri View: Technology Expanding
…The clothes you wear from fabrics that didn’t even exist 50 years ago. And the food you eat. Still produced by farmers. But, you take away the technology and half…
Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Agriculture Coalition’s Request to Halt California’s ‘False and Misleading’ Prop 65 Labeling of Glyphosate
…the U.S. The preliminary injunction will halt California’s labeling requirement until a final ruling on the matter is issued by the court. “Farmers work tirelessly to put food on America’s…
Support for Farmers with Disabilities Through Innovative Technology
…Smith Lever Act for Farm Safety and Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification. Through the combined dedication and expertise of the Cooperative Extension System and nonprofit disability organizations, the AgrAbility…
USDA Talks to Grocers About the “Harvest Box”
…about their role in a proposal to replace some food stamp allocations with prepackaged boxes of groceries. Perdue told reporters last week that grocers are already adding the delivery service…
Perdue Advocates for Crop Insurance Program
…part of the safety net” and that Americans “get a good deal on subsidies for the program.” Perdue didn’t say directly that he tried to talk the White House out…
McKinney Leads Trade Mission to Central America
…and El Salvador. “The Northern Triangle offers significant market opportunities for exporters of U.S farm and food products,” McKinney says. “Thanks to population and economic growth in the region, demand…
Governors Lobby for NAFTA Conclusion
…cover, as well as the future of food and agriculture. The timing coincides with the start of the seventh round of NAFTA talks, which begin in Mexico City on Sunday….