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USDA: 81% OF CORN, 56% OF SOYBEANS PLANTED May 23, 2018 Farm Futures magazine reports: The 2018 planting season started relatively slowly for corn, but the crop has officially caught up to the five-year average, with 81% of the crop in the ground as of May 20. Spring planting progress for soybeans and spring wheat also made big strides this past week. Some states are even further along than the national average - even some major Midwestern states such as Illinois , Indiana and Iowa .
Foie gras producers and an acclaimed Los Angeles restaurant are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their appeal of a Ninth Circuit Court ruling, which upheld California's wrongheaded foie gras ban. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will take the case because it could have lasting implications for the future of animal agriculture in America.
USDA will purchase up to $177.4 million in American-grown products for nutrition assistance programs using a new streamlined process. The products will be provided to families in need through USDA's nutrition assistance programs.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota lawmakers have moved to stall implementation of the state's proposed rule for reducing nitrate levels in groundwater supplies in farm country.
There has been some interest in the proposed changes in federal ownership of the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility that were included in the President's FY 2019 budget request. The President's request calls for transitioning ownership and responsibility for operating NBAF from the Department of Homeland Security to the U.S. Department of Agriculture .
We recently got the first glimpse of what that label might look like, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its proposed guidelines . This is the product of a decades-long fight between anti-GMO campaigners and Big Agriculture companies, which left neither side completely satisfied, as NPR has reported .
Meals will be served at the USD 333 Service Center, the old Middle School from May 30 through August 3 and at the Concordia Junior-Senior High School from May 30 through July 20. At the Service Center, breakfast will be served Monday through Friday from 8:30-9:00 a.m. Lunch will be served Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. until noon. Visitors are asked to use the parking lot entrance on the north side of the building.
Throughout the nation, Americans are taking a stand against cruel puppy mills by supporting efforts to prohibit puppy mill operators from selling dogs in pet stores. Recently, Maryland became the second state in the nation to ban the sale of puppy mill puppies in pet stores when Gov. Larry Hogan signed bipartisan legislation to protect dogs and the state's consumers.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., promotes this year's renewal of the farm bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 17, 2018.
Holding political office in Florida increasingly requires trekking to Puerto Rico, the former home of a growing number of Florida residents. More than a million Puerto Ricans already lived in the state before the hurricane, and another 56,000 joined them in the first six months after Maria.
A federal program that provides free lunches to students could be expanded to the entire Jackson Public School district next year. All JPS schools except for Jackson High School and JPS Montessori currently offer a free standard lunch to students, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Community Eligibility Provision .
U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand is urging Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to help dairy farmers withstand an ongoing financial crisis by issuing emergency funds as soon as possible. “This is a crisis right in our own backyard and we need to solve it now,” Sen. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said during a conference call Tuesday.
While sugarcane aphids have been difficult to suppress in past years due to their natural traits and limited insecticide options, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research study shows resistant sorghum varieties and beneficial predators could provide a solution. Dr. Ada Szczepaniec, AgriLife Research entomologist at Amarillo, recently authored "Interactive effects of crop variety, insecticide seed treatment, and planting date on population dynamics of sugarcane aphid and their predators in late-colonized sorghum" in the Crop Protection journal.
Students in Owosso Public Schools will no longer have to buy their breakfast or lunch at school thanks to a Federal Community Eligibility Provision Grant the district applied for through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Klapko tells ABC12 it boils down to $5 a day roughly per student.
Almost 31 million acres of farmland, double the amount previously documented, were lost to development from 1992 to 2012. Forum News Service file photo GRAND FORKS-A new report reinforces what most everyone in U.S. food production already knows: Development is irreversibly diminishing the limited supply of U.S. farmland, raising serious food-production, economic and environmental concerns.
Matt Aultman, a grain salesman and feed nutritionist with Keller Grain & Feed, Inc., shows locally grown soybeans during an interview at their facilities in Greenville, Ohio, April 5, 2018. Farmer Scott Halpin is facing another year of high prices for seed and fertilizer, and low prices for the corn and soybeans his family is planting on farmland outside Morris, Illinois.
Hatcher Yoest, 4, drinks fresh milk made on his family's farm, Hatcher Family Dairy, with gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee. Yoest preferred chocolate milk.
Up a dusty road, in a sun-dappled field in northwest Mexico, a small team of workers bent over, quietly tending to the crops on a farm. But hidden in between the legal crops of corn and garbanzo beans are fields of pretty purple flowers that have become the root of an American catastrophe.
Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. food supply ends up lost or as waste. Consumers make up more half of that, about 90 billion pounds per year, while the retail sector wastes about 43 billion pounds.