…Resources Conservation Service technical and financial assistance for drip irrigation and seasonal high tunnels to extend the growing season. Farm Services Agency microloans that provide up to $50,000 in financing…
Farmers Check Impact of Spring Storms
…the developing fruit. Cold temperatures, high winds and heavy rains hit prune orchards in March. “When we first looked at the crop, it looked really good because we had a…
Loans for Farm Storage-Handling Equipment
…to markets. Producers do not need to demonstrate the lack of commercial credit availability to apply. “Growing high-value crops for local and regional markets is a common entry point for…
Slightly Higher Acres Removed in Almond Report
…acreage. Slightly Higher Acre Removals California’s 2015 almond acreage is estimated at 1,110,000 acres, up 6 percent from the 2014 revised acreage of 1,050,000. Of the total acreage for 2015,…
Biofuels and Bioproducts
…husks of corn plants following harvest) pictured above can be converted to biofuels as well as high-value products such as plastics, chemicals, and fertilizers. Image courtesy of Energy.gov. Biomass is…
Benefits of SWEEP Program
…(FREP). Sakakihara Farms, strawberry growers, like other California growers, are learning to grow their crops despite drought conditions, by using newer high-tech tools that help monitor water and fertilizer use….
Resource to Help Food Hubs
…care facilities; financed 180,000 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines; and helped bring high-speed Internet access to nearly 6 million rural residents and businesses. For more information, visit www.usda.gov/results….
Agri View: Ostrich Farming
…attention for their ultra-fine quality. Ostrich ranchers both in the US and South Africa are beginning to turn over high profits. However, the industry is not without its problems, and…
Rice Paddies Fueling Electric Vehicles
…small size, high porosity, and interconnectedness, the developed nanostructures exhibited higher capacity, cycle stability and cycle life. To follow up on the progress made, the researchers are investigating how to…
Agri View: Farming Times
…Stallman The last decade will almost certainly be remembered as a golden age of agriculture in the United States. High global demand, a cheap dollar and bumper crops meant farming…
Clean Water Crisis Threatens U.S.
…and treatment plants would run about $384 billion. The American Water Works Association’s estimates are even higher. The nonprofit group says the cost of just maintaining current systems and fitting…
Agri View: Robot Tractors and Agriculture
…“Robotic solutions have to deal with unstructured environments and unstructured targets,” Tractica reported. “The farm environment is usually dynamic, uncertain, complex, highly variable, and hostile. And the targets for the…
U.S. Agriculture in Vietnam
…United States exported $32.3 million of beef and beef products to Vietnam in 2015. Under the TPP agreement, all of Vietnam’s tariffs on beef and beef products, currently as high…
Agri View: Grand Champion
…The price of beef reached a record high last year at the Fort Worth Stock Show. The grand champion steer, Bob Marley, sold for a record $240,000 in the annual…