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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, September 03, 2024
The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced Sunday that it has distributed $2.97 million in grant requests to 20 Healthy Soils Program Demonstration Projects.
After 35 years at the Californian Department of Food and Agriculture, Dale Woods retires from the agency and AgBiome hires Jason Kuhlemeier as vice president of marketing.
Major farm groups are working to ensure that a new coronavirus relief package provides more specific directions to the Agriculture Department on how to distribute $20 billion in additional relief.
A new bill would ban two widely used classes of pesticides and allow citizens to petition the Environmental Protection Agency for designations of pesticides as “dangerous,” which could lead to suspension of their registrations.
The size of the average dairy farm is growing as consolidation drives greater concentration of production across many different regions with prominent dairy production.
Farm bankruptcies have increased 8% over the last 12 months, but filings have slowed over the last 6 months as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the U.S. economy, a new American Farm Bureau Federation Market Intel report says.