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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
New approaches to nitrogen management, developed at land-grant universities, are changing the paradigm for farmers, prompting them to use less fertilizer, save money, and help reduce the toxic algal dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes and other bodies of water.
Goya Foods says it will add 324,000 square feet to its current 380,000-square-foot production facility west of Houston, where it makes more than 2,500 food products from Mexico, Central and South America.
Agriculture research is facing a crisis of funding and recognition, and those that rely on it need to do a better job of communicating its importance. That’s the point a handful of research supporters made Monday at an event in Washington with the goal of ginning up support for research funding in the upcoming farm bill.
Republicans look to advance competing tax reform plans in the House and Senate this week, and farm groups look to build on their early success in shaping the legislation.
There were at least two big surprises from today’s USDA crop reports – record projected corn yields and less-than-expected hurricane damage to the Florida orange crop.
The Trump administration is further delaying new animal-welfare standards for organic livestock and poultry production, and USDA officials are raising concerns about the legal and economic justification for the regulations developed under the Obama administration.
A series of pending decisions from USDA and Congress over coming weeks could leave milk producers with a significantly stronger new financial safety net, if the actions fall the way the industry hopes.
Chicken industry executives had a lot to celebrate at their annual meeting in Washington last week. Their product sales continue to increase at home and abroad. But members of the National Chicken Council remain nervous about uncertain trade policy, a legal workforce, and attacks by animal welfare activists.
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) has acquired Cumberland Dairy, a family-owned processor of ultra-pasteurized dairy products based in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
The North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU), in partnership with Agraria LLC and the Farmers Restaurant Group, has opened its sixth Founding Farmers restaurant, this time in King of Prussia, Pa.
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