Articles Tagged with ''National Potato Council''

The Agriculture Department will provide $2 billion to fruit, vegetable and nut growers through a newly launched program, Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Tuesday.

In this opinion piece, Beth Johnson, National Potato Council consultant and CEO and Founder of Food Directions, highlights how industry observers are closely watching the current DGA deliberations, which are seemingly injecting more ambiguous metrics like cultural preferences – rather than scientifically based nutritional research – into their decision-making.

USDA Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor is leaning strongly into trade missions as a way to promote domestic ag exports.

Specialty crop producers are looking to the next farm bill to expand crop insurance options and provide increased funding to address a number of challenges facing the sector, including needs for automation and development of new, safer pesticides.