The California Department of Food and Agriculture is currently accepting proposals for the 2016 California Agriculture Special Interest License Plate (CalAgPlate) grant program. This program makes available an estimated $257,000…
Retail Dairy Prices Rose in August, but Still Lower than Last Year
Annemarie Kuhns, USDA food price economist, giving the Consumer Price Index information for dairy prices. lower-than-last-year…
CDFA Collaborates on Draft ‘Vibrant Communities and Landscapes’
…storage, food security, and other ecological, economic, and health objectives. Natural and working lands are used to build resilience in natural, built, and social systems, and provide buffers against changing…
Talk of a 2017 Farm Bill?
…state lawmakers are hoping the safety net programs in the 2014 farm bill can help carry producers through low prices, soaring production domestically and abroad, and weak global demand. Politico’s…
Farm Equipment Sales Mixed in 2016
…(AEM) – www.aem.org AEM is the North American-based international trade group providing innovative business development resources to advance the off-road equipment manufacturing industry in the global marketplace. AEM membership comprises…
Bayer Investors React to the Monsanto Acquisition
A Dow Jones Report says investors generally seem positive about the deal struck by Bayer CEO Werner Baumann to acquire Monsanto. The head of a global equities asset management company…
USDA: Animal Welfare Act / Horse Protection Act Enforcement Actions
…It excludes those animals raised for food or fiber. Persons who operate facilities in these categories must provide their animals with adequate care and treatment in the areas of housing,…
Psyllid Spreads North, Found in Placer County
…HLB or citrus greening disease, will kill any tree it infects and there is no known cure, other than prevention. A call to the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s…
Trump Adviser Talks Agriculture
…a “matter of national security.” He told reporters “You can pay for 100 percent of a natural disaster, or you can go out and pay 50 percent to either make…
Farm Bureau: River-Flow Plan Will Cause Needless Suffering
…said. “Farmers have consistently improved the efficiency with which they use water to grow food and farm crops,” he said. “It’s time to apply the same standards to water dedicated…
TPP Pork Producers’ No. 1 Priority During Fly-In
…Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, which combined have 800 million consumers and account for nearly 40 percent of global GDP. “NPPC has…
Foods You Should Refrigerate
Cathy Isom gives us some helpful hints today on some foods that you really need to refrigerate. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Foods You Should Refrigerate As…
Livestock Groups Launch Website on Antibiotic Changes
Several major agricultural groups launched a website to provide information on the Food and Drug Administration’s new rules that will change how antibiotics are used to keep animals healthy. The…
Countries in TPP Won’t Renegotiate Terms of the Deal
…a special session of the government. The TPP deal would cover 12 countries and roughly 40 percent of the global economy. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….