Articles Tagged with ''harvest''

With a late harvest for many, USDA wants to make sure that growers have a chance to meet crop insurance requirements for spring-planted crops before December 10. Here's why a call to your crop insurance agent might be in order.

Last week was really busy. Three days at the National Association of Farm Broadcasters Convention in Kansas City.

The Department of Agriculture will accept comment on a proposed rule that would change the way it inspects swine slaughter facilities, saying the benefits of the move “are expected to outweigh the costs.”

For most farmers across the U.S. there is a big sigh of relief.

Fall marks the start of the busy harvest season for sugarcane and sugarbeets across the country.

Consider this modern paradox: At a time when 20 million people around the world face starvation, roughly one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or wasted.