Category Archives: Agriculture News

This is a portion of a news release from the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service on California’s grape crush. The 2020 crush totaled 3,542,038 tons, down 13.9% from the 2019 crush of...

Hemp industry stakeholders released survey results regarding industry attitudes towards a hemp checkoff program. The overall survey results show that nearly eight out of every ten farmers and processo...

The virtual World Ag Expo runs from Tuesday through Thursday. According to organizers, exhibitors and show staff started working to create the online trade show back in October. Visitors to the online...

Joe Biden's Agriculture Secretary nominee pledges to address discrimination across the Department of Agriculture. In the Senate Agriculture Committee confirmation hearing, Tom Vilsack told lawmakers h...

The USDA issued this announcement: All farmers and ranchers interested in conservation are encouraged to submit their applications for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for financial...

The U.S. oil industry is looking to a longtime adversary for help in opposing the Biden administration's push for electric vehicles. Reuters says the oil industry is reaching out to the nation's corn ...

Family farms comprise 96% of all U.S. farms and 82% of the value of all agricultural products sold. The Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service recently released the...

The National FFA Organization will again hold Give FFA Day. In 2020, through generous donations from FFA supporters, students and teachers across the country were able to continue to make a difference...

Meatpacker JBS and chicken company Pilgrim's Pride Corporation say they'll pay 100 dollars to American workers who voluntarily get the COVID-19 vaccine. Yahoo News Dot Com says thousands of U.S. meatp...

The flurry of last-minute regulations from the Trump administration includes a final rule concerning Domestic Hemp Production. The Department of Agriculture published the final rule notice in the Fede...