USA Rice Federation President and CEO Betsy Ward today congratulated USA Rice member company Lundberg Family Farms for receiving the 2009 “Agricultural Stewardship Award,” recognizing the company's “excellence in conserving, maintaining and improving our natural resources and environment by using innovative and progressive business practices.” ...
Marvin Lehrer, USA Rice Federation senior adviser on Cuba, is in Havana this week to discuss opportunities for U.S. rice exports to Cuba with ALIMPORT, Cuba’s food-buying agency....
At the start of the week, a high pressure system over California brought hot and dry conditions to most of the state. ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making available for application $49 million in specialty crop block grants for 2009....
The newly-created White House Food Safety Working Group has launched a Web site to provide information about the group’s activities and progress....
David Schaad, acting executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) in California, clarified how double-cropping practices can affect a farmer's eligibility for one of FSA’s primary disaster assistance programs. ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced the reassignment of projected surplus beet and cane sugar marketing allotments and allocations under the fiscal year (FY) 2009 Sugar Marketing Allotment program....
California farmers are expected to produce 672,000 tons of winter wheat in 2008, 34 percent below last year, according to the Sacramento, Calif., field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and 15 other senators are trying once again to break the stranglehold of Florida politics on agricultural trade with Cuba by passing legislation that would loosen the decades-old U.S. embargo....
A two-day workshop, Meeting the Challenge of the Asian Citrus Psyllid in California Nurseries will be held June 11-12, in Riverside, Calif., at the Sunkist Center in the California Citrus State Historic Park....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There has been plenty of commodity group support for President Obama’s recent directive to the USDA, the EPA and the Department of Energy to pick up the biofuels development pace (see Obama's biofuel initiative)....
A research program originally established to monitor ammonia from fertilizer applications and other gases from dairy operations has grown to focus on particles of “much greater” size – up to 10 microns or more....
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers and the National FFA Organization announce a new agreement to promote awareness of the importance of agricultural education and agricultural career opportunities....
With their sweet, refreshing juices and succulent interior, watermelons are a favorite summertime treat, especially around July 4th. ...
A series of workshops will be held during the next few weeks to update farmers and ranchers about a new cost-share program to help reduce air quality emissions from off-road mobile or stationary agricultural sources. ...
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