…of 2017 and provide 11,000 work opportunities. Some funds are already placed with 21st Century Conservation Service Corps partnership agreements; other funds will continue to be obligated throughout the summer….
Feed a Bee Announces Coast-to-Coast Recipients for $500,000 Pollinator Forage Initiative
…to teachers and students around the world, for the first Family Garden Day of 2017. Families of the community gathered to learn about the importance of honey bees and other…
Dow / DuPont Merger Gets Conditional Approval
…companies expect the merger to finish in August of 2017, with the required spin-offs to take place within 18 months later. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Agri View: Weather is Important for Crop Outlook
Everett Griner talks about the crop outlook for 2017 factoring in the weather in today’s Agri View. Weather is Important for Crop Outlook Market analysts were predicting another tough year…
Western View: The Prairie Fires
Most of us in Agriculture are aware that areas of the midwest were devastated by massive wildfires in March of 2017. The fires were headline news for a couple of…
USDA Reorganization Takes Shape
…announced on May 11, 2017. In accordance with a directive in the 2014 Farm Bill, USDA created a new Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs as part of…
Tractor Sales Up in May
The monthly survey of tractor sales in the U.S. shows increases in May. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers reports the sale of all tractors in the U.S. in May 2017…
Meat Industry Lobbyist Injured in DC Area Shooting
…spokesperson for Tyson Foods told meat industry publication Meatingplace that Matt Mika, Tyson Foods director of government relations in Washington, D.C., was injured in the shooting that took place at…
Wheat Geneticist Presented with Innovator of the Year Award
During the UC Davis Chancellor’s Innovation Awards ceremony last week, Jorge Dubcovsky was named as one of the 2017 Innovators of the Year by University of California, Davis, Interim Chancellor…
Food Safety Practices and Costs Under the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement
…third-party audit, but major buyers are likely to demand such audits. Therefore, the cost-share of audits for firms under the PR could be similar to the commercial audits incurred by…
NPPC, Ports Coalition, Applaud Early West Coast Port Contract Talks
…work slowdown. A work slowdown in 2014-2015 affected 29 West Coast and cost the U.S. meat industry millions of dollars in lost export sales. From the National Association of Farm…
U.S., China Finalize Details to Send U.S. Beef to China
As part of the U.S.-China 100-Day Action plan announced on May 11, 2017, by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin, the Trump…
California Leopold Conservation Award® Still Accepting Nominations
…Almanac. The application is available at: leopoldconservationaward.org. Nominations must be postmarked by July 14, 2017, and mailed to California Leopold Conservation Award c/o Sustainable Conservation, 98 Battery Street, Suite 302,…
Withdraw ‘GIPSA’ Rule, Say NPPC, Pork Producers
…and will have a destructive impact on the meat sector by harming the very farmers GIPSA is entrusted to protect.” USDA in 2010 proposed several PSA provisions – collectively known…