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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $8.4 million in grants that will be used by organizations in 24 states to provide training, outreach and technical assistance for socially disadvantaged, tribal and veteran farmers and ranchers.
Kentucky’s U.S. Senate candidates differed sharply on federal farm policies Thursday, offering the most substantive policy discussion of the campaign in a race that so far has focused more on Rand Paul’s presidential aspirations and Jim Gray’s tenure as mayor of the state’s second-largest city.
If our farming ancestors could see what we’ve done with data, the dramatic changes would astonish them.
In an 18-page letter to nine US Cabinet-level officials, Food & Water Watch joined the National Farmers Union to urge the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) to block a proposed acquisition of Swiss agribusiness Syngenta by the Chinese state-owned enterprise ChemChina.
Six major farm organizations have declared that property tax reform, instead of a constitutional protection for a “right to farm,” should be the main priority for keeping agriculture in Nebraska strong.
With a failed ballot measure that sought changes to the state’s decades-old corporate farming law in the rear-view mirror, a potentially lengthy federal court battle over its legality has arisen.
U.S. crop area planted, harvested, yield and production in domestic units.
Demand and weather updates are two key factors ahead for most commodity markets. While this space would never try to forecast something harder than even this Congress, the weather, the following are highlights of the USDA Weekly Export Sales report for the week ended July 7, along with our comments:
The Show-Me State is home to an abundance of resources, one of which has proven an underrated asset for USDA and its school food distribution costs. Can you guess what it is?
This year, shortly before Memorial Day, signs identifying the various crops that are grown in Idaho and Lewis counties began sprouting up along U.S. Highway 95, State Highway 162 between Grangeville and Nezperce and in some spots beside U.S. Highway 12.