…62,000 head during March, 10 percent below from previous year. United States Commercial Slaughter Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.26 billion pounds in March, 2016, 5…
Strengthen Rural Communities
…areas; consumer behavior; how markets are structured and perform; and agriculture’s impact on the environment. President Obama’s 2017 budget request proposed to fully fund the AFRI program, doubling the amount…
Research into Sustainable Crop and Livestock Production Methods
…co-funded by eligible national and state commodity boards, as authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. See the request for applications for more information. President Obama’s 2017 budget request proposes to…
Antimicrobial Resistance Research
…The President’s 2017 budget requests to fully fund AFRI for $700 million; this amount is the full funding level authorized by Congress when it established AFRI in the 2008 Farm…
Agri View: Cattle Ranching
…in 2015 was $6.29/lb. • Value of total U.S. beef exports (including variety meat) equaled $6.302 billion down from $7.135 (billion) • Top export markets for 2015 (in order): Japan,…
Loans for Farm Storage-Handling Equipment
…chickpeas, dry peas, sugar, peanuts, barley, rye, hay, honey, hops, maple sap, unprocessed meat and poultry, eggs, milk, cheese, butter, yogurt and renewable biomass. FSFL microloans can also be used…
Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge
…application will be posted by May 1, 2016. Applications must be submitted online but you can review the 2017 Challenge application. The Farm Bureau® Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge is the first…
Agri View: El Niño Fading
…long-term mean. Climate.gov figure from CPC data. Click for Large image. In South America, southern Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil have received much more rain than their long-term December–February average,…
Meals for Kids
…standards by October 1, 2017. Regulations Child and Adult Care Food Program: Meal Pattern Revisions Related to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Final Rule One-Page Summaries of the…
Agri View: Ostrich Farming
…needed in order for the burgeoning market to flourish. Currently, the largest problem with ostrich meat is that there are not enough birds, and the meat is too expensive. Therefore,…
Bison Our National Mammal
…and Oklahoma spawned today’s 2,500 privately ranched herds of bison that provide meat, wool and leather to growing markets. Native Americans are regaining opportunities to re-center their way of life…
Agri View: Robot Tractors and Agriculture
…in 2016 – marking the beginning of true commercialization – about 1,600 units in 2017, and more than 4,100 in 2018.” Driving the growth in agricultural automation is a convergence…
U.S. Agriculture in Vietnam
…poultry meat, currently as high as 40 percent, will be eliminated within 13 years. This includes tariffs on frozen chicken cuts and offal, which will be eliminated in 11 years….
SWP Allocations Reach 60 Percent
…go dry. It normally takes more than one wet year to erase the impacts of multi-year droughts, and decades to replenish groundwater levels. Accurately predicting whether water year 2017 will…