01/22/2021 SOURCE: www.fooddive.com
The pandemic has helped push double-digit increases, but challenges loom for the category, from unsteady consumer income to uncertain supply chains.
Organic produce sales growth tops 14% in 2020
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Dairy, Agriculture US, Economics, Ag Innovation,
New generation of Wisconsin dairy farmers look for a future that keeps them on the land, following their passion
They're questioning whether they should keep going when the next round of hard times, which\u00a0never seems far away, could force them out of business.
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01/22/2021 SOURCE: www.desmoinesregister.com
With Americans driving less and using less fuel due to the coronavirus, Iowa ethanol production fell 12% in 2020 from 2019.
Iowa's ethanol production falls by 500 million gallon as Americans drive less due to COVID-19
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Wheat, Agriculture US, Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Sustainability, Research, USDA,
USDA projects lowest Nebraska winter wheat crop on-record
The United States Department of Agriculture Winter Wheat Seedings report shows a record-low number of acres planted to wheat in Nebraska. The January 12 report estimated the seeded area for 2021 at 810,000 acres in Nebraska. The estimate is down from last year’s seeded area of 900,000. If the figure is realized, it would be [...]
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01/22/2021 SOURCE: www.agriculture.com
Kevin Shea became acting agriculture secretary with the arrival of the Biden administration on Wednesday, said a USDA spokesperson amid the appointment of several new officials.
Shea is acting chief of USDA; Biden freezes regulations
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01/19/2021 SOURCE: 247wallst.com
Spanning over 3.5 million square miles, the United States is the third largest country in the world by landmass, trailing only China and Russia. While over a quarter of all land in the United States is owned by the federal government — here is a look at how much land the government owns in every […]
These People Own the Most Land in America
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01/19/2021 SOURCE: modernfarmer.com
Massive monocrop farming of corn, in the United States, brings with it a whole host of push-and-pull requirements. This style of agriculture drains the soil of nutrients, making it incapable of high-yield production. To make up for that, farmers have to drench the soils in fertilizer. A new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder ran models to get a sense of what the economic costs of this system are and found they are quite staggering. A key problem with trying to figure out exactly how degraded soils are, at least in the US and some other countries
Degraded Soil Costs Corn Farmers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year: Study
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01/19/2021 SOURCE: allianceforscience.cornell.edu
[Download this page as a PDF] [En Español: 10 mitos sobre los OGMs] GMO stands for “genetically modified organism.” It most commonly refers to organisms—often plants—that have been modified to achieve desired traits, like drought-tolerance and pest-resistance, using recombinant DNA techniques or genetic engineering (GE). It’s a misleading term, since we’ve been modifying the […]
10 Myths About GMOs - Alliance for Science
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Randy Krotz
Topics: Agriculture US, Food Security/Shortage,
Smithfield Foods and Feed More Unveil New Tractor-Trailer to Expand Distribution in Rural Counties in Central Virginia
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, Drones UAV, World Population, Coronavirus/COVID,
Big growth in agriculture drones reported during the past year
Drone adoption has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, especially in the agricultural sector as farmers seek new insights using surveillance technology and drawing inferences from digital data.
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