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USDA Invites State Participation in Market Improvement Program

February 3, 2011 // 0 Comments

AMS Press Release No. 240-10 (Sam Jones-Ellard (202) 720-8998, Samuel.jones@ams.usda.gov) The U.S. Department of Agriculture [is requesting] proposals for matching grant [...]

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Farmer’s Tyson Case

February 2, 2011 // 0 Comments

Supreme Court Rejects Farmer Who Tangled With Tyson (by Mark Sherman – The Huffington Post) EXCERPT: The Supreme Court last Monday turned down an appeal from a former [...]

Did the White House Pressure USDA to Deregulate Roundup Ready Alfalfa?

February 1, 2011 // 0 Comments

White House pressured Vilsack to approve GMO alfalfa, media reports suggest (by Tom Philpott – Grist) Excerpt: In The Wall Street Journal, Bill Tomson and Scott Kilman [...]

Conservation Practice Standards from USDA Revised

February 1, 2011 // 0 Comments

USDA Develops, Revises Conservation Practice Standards USDA has revised or developed several conservation practice standards, including nutrient management, and published [...]

USDA’s New Bio-Based Label Questioned

February 1, 2011 // 0 Comments

‘Bio-based’: organic’s sketchy new cousin (by Holly Richmond – Grist) EXCERPT: Thanks to the USDA and the 2002 farm bill, products made from at least a quarter [...]

Farm Succession Planning Resources

January 31, 2011 // 0 Comments

This post is a prelude to a new Succession Planning Page on Beginning Farmers. Succession planning is essential to the process of passing a farm on to the next generation [...]

Cattlemen set national policy priorities

January 31, 2011 // 0 Comments

From SouthWest Farm Press According to NCBA Vice-President of Government Affairs Colin Woodall, NCBA’s policy staff in Washington, D.C., identified five major priorities [...]

Former Migrant Farmworkers Becoming Beginning Farmers

January 30, 2011 // 0 Comments

Here’s a really nice article about farmworkers becoming farmers. It also discusses beginning farmer training and farm bill programs to train and assist beginning [...]

GMO Alfalfa Decision Makes Organic Proponents Furious

January 29, 2011 // 0 Comments

By Taylor Reid, Beginning Farmers’ Founder and Administrator. Organic and sustainable food and farming advocates have been infuriated by USDA’s decision to [...]

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) General Sign-Up Announced

January 28, 2011 // 0 Comments

On Friday, January 28, USDA announced that a Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up will be held from March 14-April 14, 2011. This is the 40th general sign-up [...]