USDA Announces Safety Net Assistance for Milk Producers Due to Tightening Dairy Margins May/June 2016 Average Margins Below $6 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced approximately $11.2 million in financial assistance…
Marketing Needed for Climbing Pecan Market
…has increased roughly eight percent. Production has also increased abroad, most notably in Mexico and South Africa, creating additional competitive pressures for U.S. producers and processors. As a result, prices…
Ag Outlook Strengthens
…Economy Barometer turned higher, coming in at 112 in July, up from 104 in June and 97 in May. The improved outlook among producers in the survey came despite a…
Livestock Review
Pacific Region Livestock Review United States Cattle on Feed Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more…
Managed Grazing Helps Forests, Experts Say
…and developing water facilities for livestock, Koopmann Rivers said ranchers can control their livestock and distribute them more efficiently across the land so that they’re not overgrazing in one area….
Specialty Crop Research and Extension Investments
…Bluff, Pine Bluff, Ark., $50,000 The American Olive Oil Producers Association, Clovis, Calif., $50,000 Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, Ill., $3,694,012 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., $3,673,611 Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville,…
Cotton Tour Connects Growers
…Producers Information Exchange western tour, sponsored by The Cotton Foundation and Bayer CropScience, had several stops in the Central Valley on its schedule. Public relations representative with Bayer CropScience, Lee…
Dockers Union Contract Negotiations
…$40 million a week during the slowdown. The National Pork Producers Council and 112 other trade associations in March sent a letter to the groups urging them to begin early…
Lower Hog Prices
…as many consumers eat fewer meats during the hottest months. American producers were raising over 68 million hogs as of June 1, which is up two percent from last year….
U.S. Grains Council Elects New Chairman
…and the Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board to become a leading farm educator and conservationist. He said his passions in life are his family, farming, and the U.S. Grains Council….
Effects of Agricultural Conservation
…and ranchers to participate. Their collective responses can directly benefit themselves and all producers by helping leaders focus on what producers need to install conservation practices that are best for…
Organic Livestock Rule Concern
Senators Ask USDA to Address Organic Livestock Rule Concern Before Publishing Rule A group of bipartisan Senators has signed a letter to the Department of Agriculture requesting the agency address…
Agri View: Food Production
…cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fields, and carbon dioxide from the cutting of rain forests to grow crops or raise livestock. Farming is the thirstiest user of…
NMPF Introduces FARM Environmental Stewardship Component
NMPF Introduces FARM Environmental Stewardship Component to Help Measure Progress Made by Dairy Farms in Sustainability Practices The Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program, administered by the National Milk Producers…