Articles Tagged with ''Economic Research Service''

Net farm income should increase by about 10 percent in 2019 but will still be well below the average level for the past two decades and far under recent peaks, according to USDA's latest forecast.

USDA will keep 76 Economic Research Service employees in the Washington, D.C., area when it moves ERS outside the Beltway, the department said Tuesday.

Assured of President Donald Trump's support, the Senate and then the House passed a fiscal 2019 spending agreement Thursday to avert another government shutdown and fund USDA, Interior, FDA and other departments and agencies important to agriculture through Sept. 30.

A House-Senate agreement on USDA’s fiscal 2019 budget includes non-binding language that raises concerns about the cost of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s plan to move the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture out of the nation’s capital.

Increased production costs are cutting into farm income, which is expected to fall 12 percent in 2018, USDA’s Economic Research Service said Friday.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue reaffirmed his desire to move swiftly in identifying new office locations for the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture, at the swearing-in today of a new NIFA director.

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced plans to move the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture from their present homes in Washington, D.C., to somewhere, anywhere else but Washington.