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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Department of Agriculture has confirmed the detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza for the first time since 2017. The H7N3 strain of the disease was detected in a South Carolina commercial turkey flock.
With less than two months to go in 2018, American agriculture has endured a major drubbing by hurricanes and rainstorms in the Midwest, the Plains, and the coastal Southeast so far this year.
Funds are available to rebuild infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Florence through the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service in South Carolina.
Though the remnants of Hurricane Florence finally dumped their last torrents of rain near the U.S. Northeast coast and drifted back out to the Atlantic Ocean Tuesday, the storm’s havoc is sure to plague the Carolinas and its farms for weeks.
Though the storm was downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm to tropical depression, Florence’s heavy rainfall delivered significant river flooding and badly damaged ag producers across North and South Carolina.
The American Farm Bureau Federation and other agricultural organizations are asking a Texas court to block enforcement of the Obama-era “waters of the U.S.” rule in the 26 states where courts have not already stayed its implementation.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is adding all of South Carolina to the list of regulated areas for the emerald ash borer (EAB).
