Videos on how to use Census data are now available The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2017 Census of Agriculture results…
New Report Highlights the Scale of Industry Concentration in Agriculture
…in just nine years; growing from 59 percent in 2008 to 84 percent in 2017. The impact of industry concentration on food service management was also highlighted in the report,…
California Climate Investments Make Progress on Emissions Goal
…2018, nearly doubling the $720 million of funding spent in 2017. Some of the cumulative outcomes of the program thus far include the preservation or restoration of more than 500,000…
Monitoring Southern Blight in Colusa County
…region. The research team sampled soil from a total of nine fields, five of which were confirmed to previously have southern blight. “In 2017 with those really heavy rains and all…
Western View: Nebraska Flooded; Farmers Need A Hand
The reports of severe flooding in Nebraska are sobering, with farmers losing crops and livestock, fields washed out, topsoil gone with the barns, silos, tractors and homes flooded, sometimes swept…
Farm City Newsday Thursday, 03-21-19
…livestock group is calling beef trade with Brazil Risky, more news on the Tulare County olive growers processing contracts and details about another court case against Monsanto and its weed…
California Walnuts Receive Trade Funding for Tariff Relief
…grow with the aid of MAP. Exports accounted for 63% of shipments in the 2017/18 crop year and are expected to continue to grow as the CWC seeks out new…
Formal Lab-Grown Fake Meat Agreement is “What Consumers Deserve”
…Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on lab-grown fake meat oversight: “The formal agreement announced today (03-07-19) solidifies USDA’s lead oversight role in the production and labeling of lab-grown fake meat…
Amazon to Diversify Grocery Portfolio
Amazon is looking to make some significant changes in their grocery portfolio. After acquiring the grocery chain Whole Foods back in 2017, Amazon went to work making changes to product…
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Resigns
…onto the market, and so many other things. He and his talents will be greatly missed!” Taking office back in May 2017, Gottlieb has been outspoken and aggressive in his…
Secretary Perdue on the American Broadband Initiative Milestones Report
…throughout rural America.” Background: On April 25, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity “to ensure the informed exercise of regulatory authority that…
Tomato Trade Agreement with Mexico Ends Amidst Dumping Complaints
…that Mexican tomato companies increased their share of the American market from 32 to 54 percent. The group also contends that between 1996 and 2017 the market share for U.S….
California Farm Bureau Appoints Jim Houston as Administrator
…March after serving as CFBF administrator since 2007. Houston joined CFBF in October 2017 as manager of its Governmental Affairs Division. In January 2018, he assumed additional duties managing the…
The Growing Market of the Dominican Republic
Over the past decade the Dominican Republic has continued to grow into an important market for U.S. goods. In 2017 exports of American products increased one percent from the year…