…of organic fresh produce and found significant growth compared to 2017. Packaged salads continued to lead the way for organic vegetable sales, representing 19 percent of all sales of organic…
St. Louis Fed Survey Shows Farm Income Down Once Again
…shows quality farmland values and cash rents were also slightly lower than in 2017. The St. Louis Fed surveyed 24 agricultural banks in the Eighth Federal Reserve District, which includes…
Secretary Perdue Names FSA Administrator
…by the Trump Administration, Fordyce served as the director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture from 2013 to 2017. In 2015, Fordyce was awarded the Missouri Farm Bureau Distinguished Service…
2017 California Raisin Grape Mechanical Harvest Report
…Service. The Overhead Trellis Management System was used on 13,385 bearing acres in 2017, accounting for 8.9 percent of the total raisin-type grape acreage. Fresno and Madera County growers have…
Perdue Announces FSIS Key Leadership
…Carmen Rottenberg most recently served as Deputy Administrator for FSIS, and since August 2017, as Acting Deputy Under Secretary for USDA’s Office of Food Safety. She has held several leadership…
USDA Projects Smaller Corn, Soybean Crops
…summer growing season weather. The season-average farm price for corn is projected at $3.30 to $4.30 per bushel, up 40 cents at the midpoint from 2017/18. Meanwhile, the U.S. soybean…
Secretaries Perdue and Zinke Join Forces to Combat 2018 Wildfire Season
…The 2017 wildfire season was one of the most challenging years on record, stressing the need for the USDA and the Department of the Interior to work together in combating…
2018 California Almond Forecast
…above last year’s production of 2.27 billion pounds. Forecasted bearing acreage for 2018 is 1,070,000. Forecasted yield is 2,150 pounds per acre, down 5.3 percent from the 2017 yield of…
Senators Want Answers on RFS Economic Hardship Waiver to CVR
…RFS regulations, received a hardship waiver even though CVR made a profit of over $230 million in 2017. The Senators note that the EPA has granted at least 24 waivers…
UCANR Releases New Report for Raspberry Production Costs
…Harvest Fresh Market Raspberries in the Central Coast Region – 2017,” examines the samples costs to establish, produce and harvest fresh market raspberries in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito…
Report Shows Improvements in Animal Welfare, Quality and Sustainability
…Stewardship Review, funded by the Beef Checkoff and completed in late 2017, compiles data collected from cattlemen and women across the country. The first survey, completed in 2010, set a…
Food Price Index up 2.7 Percent
…of the United Nations averaged 173.5 points, up 2.7 percent from April 2017. While the prices of most cereal grains and dairy products continued to increase in April, sugar prices…
Farm Credit Loan Volume up One Percent
…income was $2 billion for the first quarter of 2018, as compared with $1.9 billion for the first quarter of 2017. The increase in net interest income primarily resulted from…
USDA-White House Liaison Clovis Leaving Washington
…Clovis was one of the first people through the door at USDA in January 2017, and we are grateful for his time here. He is a good man and a…