The latest news from the agricultural sector
2022-07-27
USDA Begins Issuing Payments for Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is increasing the amount of funding available for the
Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program (SMHPP) and expects to issue approximately $62.8 million in pandemic... Read more
2022-07-27
Indiana Poultry Industry Back in Business
Indiana is considered free of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) as of July 21.? Read more
2022-07-27
Latest ENSO Forecast Shows La Nina Likely to Last Through End of 2022
The latest ENSO forecast shows that the current La Nina is likely to continue to dominate the global weather through the end of the year. By then, neutral conditions are expected to take over and last... Read more
2022-07-27
USDA Confirms Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Florida
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a non-commercial... Read more
2022-07-27
Nebraska Ranks Third in USDA’s 2022 Grassland CRP Signups
Broadening Reach of Program Read more
2022-07-27
4-H on the rebound as youth return
GUELPH — The non-profit 4-H clubs have been a staple in the life of young rural Canadians for over a century. The youth organization boasts some 23,000 members across the country and is now recovering... Read more
2022-07-27
North Dakota activates Harvest Hotline
The hotline was first implemented in 1992 to address custom combining needs Read more
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2022-07-27
Tough to be a new farmer when you can’t find land
Ontario farmland continues to disappear. Read more
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2022-07-26
USDA Announces Its Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement with Pennsylvania
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Pennsylvania under the Local Food Purchase Assistance... Read more
2022-07-26
USDA Lifts PACA Reparation Sanctions on New Jersey Produce Business
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Miami Growers Inc. satisfied a $6,960 reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce... Read more
2022-07-26
Pre-Solicitation Announcement for Section 32 Purchase of Table Grapes
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced plans to purchase Fresh Table Grapes for distribution to various food nutrition assistance programs. Purchases will be made under the... Read more
2022-07-26
Managing the Prussic Acid Hazard in Sorghum
Forage sorghum, sorghum-sudangrass, and sudangrass are important forage crops throughout the United States. While sorghum is a valuable forage crop, sorghum species can produce prussic acid, which can... Read more