…USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics. “This new data will add to USDA’s robust scientific body of knowledge on the inventory, movement and death loss of honeybees…
Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry Results
…USDA actions since April 2015 include: USDA has increased its emphasis on soil health to increase the organic matter in soil and improve microbial activity, which in turn sequester more…
Almond Update: EQIP Program
…reduce particulate matter by at least 30%. Trials were supported by a USDA NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) and the San Joaquin Valley Air District, and build on years of…
Farmers Markets Explosion
…over the past decade and why they are becoming more and more popular. That story’s ahead on This Land of Ours. Farmers Market Explosion From: USDA Agriculture Marketing Service Farmers…
Measuring Goals In The Food Waste Challenge
USDA researchers will soon establish the start of what will be a long-term measuring process of how well we are doing in reducing food loss and food waste. Rob Bain…
Certified Farmers’ Markets in California
…wish to sell your commodity. View contact information for County Agricultural Commissioners. Certified Farmers Market Locator: Certified Farmers Markets by County – (pdf) | (xlsx) USDA National Directory Learn more….
Toolkits for Starting Farmer’s Markets
…Secretary Vilsack highlighted USDA’s continued support of local and regional food systems, much of which is coordinated through USDA’s Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative. At USDA, we’ve seen…
California Almond Forecast
…be represented. Growers are asked to indicate their almond yield per acre from last year and expected yield for the current year. Read the full USDA California Almond Forecast (.pdf)…
California Raisin Grape Mechanical Harvest Report
Total acreage harvested by mechanical means was 47,754, just over 28 percent of the State’s total raisin-type grape acreage, according to the Pacific Regional Office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics…
Crop Production Report
The USDA-NASS, Pacific Regional Office released the crop production forecast for May. The latest survey, conducted during the last week of April 2016, and the first week of May 2016,…
No Changes for California Citrus
Mark Hudson, USDA/NASS, Washington DC, issued the May citrus crop forecast with no increases were reported for California due to the April numbers being carried over. Increases for Florida in…
Conserve Energy and Save Costs
…of USDA’s Medium page, How Food and Forestry Are Adapting to a Changing Climate. Since 2009, USDA Rural Development (#USDARD) has invested $11 billion to start or expand 103,000 rural…
Leaders Say Lemon Proposal ‘Defies Logic’
…The United States’ Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) says after completing a comprehensive pest risk analysis which included a visit to Argentina to observe production areas,…
People’s Garden
…Garden Initiative, named in honor of President Lincoln’s description of USDA as the “People’s Department,” with one garden at USDA Headquarters in 2009. He later challenged all USDA employees to…