Articles by Sarah Gonzalez

In order to minimize food safety risks and equalize the impact of sequestration, furloughs of employees in USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) will be implemented at the same time in nonconsecutive days, said Under Secretary for Food Safety Elizabeth Hagen this morning.

During a Farm Foundation Forum today, Former California Secretary of Agriculture, A.G. Kawamura, led a discussion about the collaboration, research and diversity needed within agriculture and forestry to “get ourselves into the 21st Century in a collective way.”

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack bemoaned the potential budget cuts to each mission area of the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a result of the sequester that enacts today.

The key to increasing market demand for soy oil is the commercialization of high oleic soybean oil, according to United Soybean Board Vice Chair Jim Call.

Bayer’s forum, which began on Tuesday in Orlando, Florida, included a futuristic look at agriculture in the year 2025, just 25 years before the world population is expected to reach nine billion and agriculture is required to increase productivity by 70 percent.

A national Bee Care Tour will encourage growers, beekeepers and researchers to focus on the myriad of factors affecting the decline in honey bee populations, said Robyn Kneen, Bayer CropScience’s North America Bee Health Project Manager.

Drought, economic strains and generational transitions will continue to be hot topics for the agriculture industry in 2013, but the sector still remains one of the top strongest in the nation, noted Economic Research Service economists during the 2013 USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments today from both sides of a patent case involving Monsanto and an Indiana soybean farmer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2013 - Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., led a group of senators and congressmen today to introduce the Sugar Reform Act, which would draw back price supports for U.S. sugar growers.

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) 2013 President Scott George said the most vital issue for his members is the drought impacting all sectors of the cattle and beef industry, a perspective that is reflected in the CattleFax 2013 Outlook.