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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Daniel Hartwig has been tapped as the new president of the California Fresh Fruit Association, succeeding Ian LeMay, who has held the position since 2019.
The USDA Agricultural Research Service revealed that researchers have condensed the categorization of African Swine Fever virus strains from 25 to just six distinct genotypes.
USDA is distributing more than $1.2 billion through seven Rural Development programs to cooperatives for projects ranging from health care to utility infrastructure.
Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees have reached agreement on a one-year farm bill extension, but its fate hinges on whether Congress can agree on a stopgap spending bill this year.
The nation's fifth largest poultry processor has agreed to stop penalizing chicken farmers who exit their contracts to work for other companies, in a proposed consent decree with the Justice Department.
The Agriculture Department on Thursday raised its yield estimates for corn and soybeans and predicted stronger production for both commodities in its November crop report.
The Agriculture Department has a lot of services, funding and tools for specialty crop farmers – including a new $100 million program to help producers sell their crops overseas – and the USDA wants to make sure that those farmers take advantage of them, Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small told reporters Thursday.
Farmers who bought crop insurance in 2022 will receive dramatically less in disaster aid than they have in recent years because of a “progressive factoring methodology” USDA made to the Emergency Relief Program for last year’s losses, according to an analysis by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
