…House to showcase the diverse nature of agriculture production in the U.S. California will be represented by A.G. Kawamura of California, third-generation fruit and vegetable grower and shipper from Orange…
Ag Groups Pleased With Perdue Confirmation
…strong production and agribusiness background makes him keenly aware of U.S. agriculture’s critical importance in: 1) feeding and clothing this country and the world, 2) powering this nation’s economy and…
RFA to EPA: Keep the RFS on Track in 2018
…production and are on pace to produce a record supply of 16 billion gallons of conventional renewable fuel in 2017, well above the 15-billion-gallon conventional renewable fuel RVO. Meanwhile, refiners…
Farm Lending Continues to Moderate
…in the farm sector are still weak, so borrowers and lenders have worked together to make adjustments in financing agricultural production across America. Ag lenders are making more adjustments to…
California Milk Production Report
California milk producers had a total of 1.76 million milk cows for March that produced 3.50 billion pounds of milk. Milk production is up 12 percent from February, 2017…
Pacific Region Poultry and Egg Production Report
California Egg Production California’s egg production during March totaled 294 million, up 28 million from February’s production but down 3 million from March 2016. The all layers during the month…
National Dairy FARM Program Releases Environmental Stewardship Reference Manual to Celebrate Earth Day
…helps producers expand their sustainability efforts by using a limited amount of data about their farm. The module is based on a life-cycle assessment (LCA) of fluid milk conducted by…
RFA Celebrates Earth Day 2017
…but would have been 33% without the addition of 15.3 billion gallons of ethanol to the fuel supply. Looked at another way, 2016 ethanol production displaced an amount of gasoline…
Funding to Educate the Future Agricultural Science Workforce
…production, find new sources of energy, mitigate climate variability, and ensure food safety. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural science, visit www.nifa.usda.gov/impacts, sign up for email updates or…
Idaho Researcher: Farmers Benefit from Drought
…them, they understand.” Taylor adds: “You’ve heard farmers say, gee, if we could just get everybody to reduce potato production 10 percent this year or onion production 20 percent, we’d…
Canada Doubling Down on Dairy Trade Comments
…not pretend we’re in a global free market when it comes to agriculture.” Canada says the problem is that the U.S. is over producing, rather than the new milk pricing…
Australia and New Zealand Dairy Leaders Would Support U.S. WTO Action on Canada
…President Donald Trump if he included the WTO in a trade dispute over a milk pricing scheme by Canada that is harming U.S. dairy farmers. U.S. dairy groups say the…
Food, Conservation Groups Invest in Soil to Sustain Food Production
…and communities for generations to come. Global populations are expected to grow to more than 9 billion by 2050, doubling the demand for food, fuel and fiber production, and placing…
Pear Industry Votes to Continue Marketing Order
…fresh pear growers voting in the referendum or by fresh pear growers representing two-thirds of the pears produced during the production year. Growers of pears for processing must meet the…