…in excess commodities to be redirected to food banks and those in need, making $11 million in payments to America’s dairy farmers through the Dairy Margin Protection Program, and reprogramming…
Pacific Region Poultry and Egg Report
…2 percent from a year ago. Leading breeders placed 7.69 million broiler-type pullet chicks for future domestic hatchery supply flocks during August 2016, down 3 percent from August 2015. U.S….
Fruit Growers Fight for Market Share in China
…bananas, grapes, oranges and apples to China, it faces increasing competition from both Chinese growers and neighbors of Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. Combined, those three countries supply more than…
Agri View: New Possibilities
…words groves of research. What people don’t realize is that the pomegranate is a very good health food. We could find a lot of anxious growers in groves. That’s Agri…
Support for Rural Cooperative Businesses and Organizations
…food systems. Over the course of the Obama Administration, USDA has invested close to $1 billion in 40,000 local food-related projects on farms and in communities across the country. USDA’s…
Training, Educating the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
…rural economic growth, addressing water availability issues, increasing food production, finding new sources of energy, mitigating climate variability and ensuring food safety. USDA has significantly expanded its efforts to improve…
National Farm to School Month
Highlights Benefits to America’s Students and Communities by Deborah Kane, Director, Office of Community Food Systems, Food and Nutrition Service The local foods offered through farm to school programs help…
Most Consumers Say They Lack Access to Information about Food
…of Farm Broadcasting news service. From: The Center for Food Integrity How Can the Food Industry Satisfy Their Appetites? More of today’s consumers crave information about food and how it’s…
National 4-H Week
…administered by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Throughout the world, 4-H organizations exist in over 50 countries. For more information about 4-H and National 4-H Week, go…
NIFA Awards Community Food Projects
…goals of Community Food Projects include meeting the food needs of low-income individuals; promoting comprehensive responses to local food access, farm and nutrition issues, and addressing state, local and neighborhood…
Support for Minority and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers
…also serving Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, $199,999 Cultivating Community, Maine, $187,706 Michigan Integrated Food & Farming Systems, Michigan, $199,998…
FDA Allows Peanuts to be called “Healthy”
…a healthy food.” The comment period for the use of the term “healthy” in the labeling of food products is open until January 26th of next year. From the National…
China Wants GMOs, Citizens Don’t
A new report says China wants to incorporate the use of genetically modified organisms in agriculture, but the Chinese people do not. And Bloomberg says the latest food safety scandal…
Agri View: Food Prices
Everett Griner talks about America, still number one in food prices, in today’s Agri View. Food Prices We are still the best fed nation in the world, at the best…