Category Archives: Agriculture News

California Farm Bureau is posting on its website recent scientific work by the California Bountiful Foundation showing that California farmers and ranchers use only 15% of the total water the state re...

West Coast ports in the U.S. started negotiating a new labor contract just over a year ago. While working without a new contract in place isn't unheard of, the contract has now been expired for over 1...

USDA is extending deadlines for the Emergency Relief Program Phase Two and the Pandemic Assistance Revenue Program to July 14. The goal is to give producers more time to apply for the assistance. Also...

A USDA report says a comparison between first-quarter 2023 exports of seven animal products with the exports from the same time last year shows some improvement.Four of the categories were year-over-y...

The House Agriculture Appropriations bill provides $26.3 billion for total funding.But that’s $532 million below the 2023 funding level. The bill provides $17.1 billion to the Department of Agri...

The Consumer Brands Association says implementing proposed tariffs of up to 300% on tinplate steel imports would increase the cost of canned foods and products by up to 30%. The association released t...

After reaching recent highs in 2021 and 2022, the average net cash income of U.S. farm businesses is expected to decline by 18% in 2023 compared with 2022. According to the USDA's Economic Research Se...

America's beef cow herd hasn't been this small since 1962. Drought and the high cost of feed forced producers to cut their herd sizes instead of keeping animals for breeding. Livestock producers who f...

The House Committee on Natural Resources advanced Congressman David Valadao's bill HR 215, WATER for California Act.This bill, according to a news release from Valadao's office will streamline operati...

New data from USDA's Economic Research Service shows meat processing and dairy product manufacturing are the largest components of food sector sales. Food and beverage manufacturing plants transform r...