Articles Tagged with ''Department of Agriculture''

Producers across the country are enrolling in the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, and they’re doing so with the help of employees that are either teleworking or back in the office for the first time in months.

USDA’s Risk Management Agency will move premium dates and boost subsidies under the Livestock Risk Protection insurance program meant to protect producers against price declines.

In this article, Brent Bible, adviser to Environmental Defense Fund and member of the Soil Health Partnership, explains how the newly introduced Growing Climate Solutions Act would help simplify and standardize the certification process for generating carbon credits and help farmers realize more returns on their investments is in credit-worthy practices.

Danny Dumas has decided to leave Del Monte Fresh Produce and the Almond Board of California has submitted names to the Department of Agriculture for positions on its board.

Countless deteriorating dams on rivers and old farm ponds out in the pastures are in escalating need of rebuilding before disaster strikes again. Some federal help is available for reservoir owners ready for the task.

Christa Lachenmayr, a senior agricultural economist at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has been appointed the Commission’s liaison to the Department of Agriculture.

A $16 billion program to offer direct payments to producers is not yet ready for signup, but the Department of Agriculture is urging producers to begin several steps of the application process ahead of time.

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service 2020 California Almond Subjective Forecast estimates California almond orchards will produce 3.0 billion pounds of nuts this year, up 17.6% from last year’s 2.55 billion-pound crop.

China snapped up another 136,000 metric tons of 2019-20 U.S. soybeans this week, according to a USDA announcement Tuesday, showing the country is not letting up on purchases that go toward meeting its promises under the “phase one” trade agreement.

Crop producers will have more time to verify their organic acreage for crop insurance under a loosened regulatory regime rolled out earlier this week by USDA’s Risk Management Agency.