Category Archives: Agriculture News

According to a new USDA survey, California's 2015 almond acreage is estimated at 1,110,000 acres, up 6 percent from the 2014 revised acreage of 1,050,000. Of the total acreage for 2015, 890,000 acres ...

US retail sales of farm tractors under 40 horsepower were up 33 percent for March of 2016, and up 26 percent year-to-date. A report on Successful Farming at Agriculture.com says the 2 wheel drive cate...

The FBI is warning agriculture against data breaches that may expose farming data through internet-connected farming equipment, according to Precision Farming Dealer magazine. The FBI, along with USDA...

The Vermont Retail and Grocers Association wants the state to delay its GMO labeling law that is slated to start July first. The Vermont Business Magazine reported Monday that the Association is suppo...

The U.S. Senate failed to pass a measure that would block the Clean Water Act rule, otherwise known as the Waters of the U.S. rule. Senators voted 56-42, failing to reach the required 60 votes to atta...

A new study says federal cooperative extension programs at land-grant universities help farmers stay in business. The researchers say since 1985, 137,000 farmers would have left the industry without t...

Florida’s citrus growers say as much as 90 percent of citrus acreage and 80 percent of trees are infected by the deadly greening disease, which is making a huge dent in the state’s $10.7 b...

Politico reports there may be a possibility of action on the Trans Pacific Partnership as early as this summer in the House Ways and Means Committee. Committee Chair Kevin Brady said action would only...

Rice production in the United Stated declined 13 percent in 2015 to 192.3 million hundredweight, down 29.9 million hundredweight from a year earlier, according to USDA's Economic Research Service. USD...

Agriculture groups are telling lawmakers farmers are facing increased financial pressure in an economic downturn brought on by low commodity prices. At a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing Thursda...