Conference Call Dec. 14: S510, What Just Happened
Farm Assist Productions is organizing a national conference call to answer questions concerning the Food Safety Bill and it’s amendments. As it is unclear at this point [...]
Statistics and Trends
I often post articles and opinion pieces that discuss new trends in agriculture and farming. You will usually find excepts with links to the articles.
Interesting Editorial on Impending Farm Subsidy Cuts
Letter From the Editor: The Shrinking Farm Safety Net (DTN Progressive Farmer) by Urban C. Lehner EXCERPT: Now that the Republicans are taking over the House and promising to [...]
Fresh Vegetable Sales Increased in Third Quarter of 2010
United Fresh Press Release, Contact: Patrick Delaney, pdelaney@unitedfresh.org, 202-303-3400 ext. 417 United Fresh Quarterly Report Shows Gains for Most of the Top Produce [...]
Duel Over Sugar Beet Seeds Could Create Shortage (New York Times)
by WILLIAM NEUMAN and ANDREW POLLACK EXCERPT: Unless regulators can devise new rules acceptable to the federal court, the rulings could force farmers to abandon the [...]
U.S. Farmers Create New Habitat for Bees
American Farmers Create 41,000 Acres of Wildflower Habitat for Bees in 2010 Xerces Society Press Release: November 29th, 2010 Contacts: Kathy Kellison, Executive Director, [...]
New USDA ERS Publication on Local Food, Rural Development
From the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC): USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) has released the December issue of its quarterly publication, Amber [...]
Final DOJ-USDA Ag-Competition Workshop in D.C. Dec. 8th
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND USDA ANNOUNCE REGISTRATION FOR COMPETITION WORKSHOP IN WASHINGTON, D.C. December 8 Workshop on Margins to be Held at the U.S. Department of [...]
Rising Farmland Prices: A Cause for Worry?
Extreme Sales Stun But Don’t Set the Pace (From DTN Progressive Farmer) One $14,000-per-acre Iowa farmland sale won’t set standards for the market, but it has [...]
Publication Exposes Myths About Future World Food Needs
Telling Porkies: The Big Fat Lie About Doubling Food Production – .pdf (The Soil Association) EXCERPT: The two figures on increasing global food production (50% by 2030 [...]
Agriculture News from Across the Nation
U.S. Farm Structure: Declining—But Persistent—Small Commercial Farms (Amber Waves) by Robert A. Hoppe EXCERPT: The continuing shift in production away from small [...]
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