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For the first time, Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow says she’ll push a new farm bill further into the future rather than strike a deal with Republicans on SNAP and climate spending changes. The Fence Post reports Stabenow won’t agree to limit any updates to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or cut any climate-smart […]

Farming activities in the United States accounted for 10.6 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service. New data released this week shows that from 2020 to 2021, agricultural greenhouse gas emissions remained nearly constant but decreased from 11.1 percent to 10.6 percent as a share of total U.S. […]

A lawmaker from Florida believes there could be movement on the Farm Bill in March. Congresswoman Kat Cammack told Agriculture of America Tuesday the farm bill has been a frustrating process. “We are currently operating on a basic reauthorization of the ‘18 Farm Bill, and we were hoping to have it completed last year, but […]

Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or drones, pose a significant risk to critical infrastructure and U.S. national security, specifically from those made in China according to a January threat assessment by the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. “Basically Chinese company data belong to the Chinese government, is what in essence the laws in China say.”  […]

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University student Alaina Brock has been chosen as a Future Leader in Agriculture by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Brock, a senior majoring in food and nutritional sciences in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, is one of only 20 undergraduate and graduate students […]

The North American Raspberry & Blackberry Association Conference concludes today (Wednesday) in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the red raspberry industry has a new resource for information. Allison Beadle, CEO of Wild Hive, the Washington Red Raspberry Commission’s marketing team, says out with the old and in with the newer and more complete website. “The red-raspberry-dot-org […]

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.8 million head on February 1, 2024. Oklahoma State University Extension Livestock Market Economist Dr. Derrell Peel believes the February USDA Cattle on Feed Report is an indicator of smaller feedlot inventories […]

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture recently led a trade mission to Cuba with the hopes of eventually improving trade between the two neighbors. NASDA CEO Ted McKinney talked about why they took a trade trip to the island nation. “This time, we had seven of our members, always we take a special […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Energy Department have launched a new initiative to help farmers cut costs and increase income using underutilized renewable technologies. Through the Rural and Agricultural Income & Savings from Renewable Energy initiative, USDA is setting an initial goal of helping 400 individual farmers deploy smaller-scale wind projects using USDA’s […]

USDA ended last week with the monthly Cattle on Feed Report showing slightly higher inventories on February 1. Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.8 million. The inventory was slightly above 2023, with placements in feedlots at 1.79 […]