U.S. Department of Agriculture
Move over farmers’ markets. More than 300 food hubs around the country are also providing small farms another outlet to sell locally raised food to consumers.
During remarks at the Farm Journal Forum, he says he’s “bullish” on ethanol industry and says the opportunity for agriculture is “unlimited.”
Crops were damaged across much of southern and eastern Idaho when a series of ill-timed storms caused grain to sprout before it could be harvested and some crops to mold in the fields.
Commodity prices may be down, but land prices remain on the rise, according to the latest USDA Land Values Summary.
The country’s next generation of farmers and ranchers may have a better chance at success with extra help that the federal government unveiled Monday.
When enrollment opened for the USDA disaster assistance programs this April, LaNelle Martin was one of the first to sign up at the Kimball County FSA office in Nebraska.
Federal officials have designated five Idaho counties as natural disaster areas due to recent drought conditions.
Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod filed the lawsuit against the late blogger Andrew Breitbart, who in 2010 posted an edited video of Sherrod, who is black, supposedly making racist remarks.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to resume inspections of in-bound cattle from Agua Prieta, Mexico.
The 2014 forecast of total red meat and poultry production is lowered from last month as higher beef production is more than offset by lower pork, broiler, and turkey production.