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The National Honey Board will fill four seats, one first handler, one importer, one marketing cooperative, and one producer....More

Private land trusts have permanently protected 3 million acres of U.S. farm and ranch land....More

American egg farmers will donate 9 million eggs to food programs during the March Easter season....More

UC ANR will be consolidating more than 150 employees into one location in East Davis....More

Aphids produce sugary honeydew which promotes growth of sooty molds. Sooty molds reduce plant vigor by blocking photosynthesis and decrease palatability to livestock....More

If the price of corn falls — and many forecasters predict it will, particularly if the ethanol boom wanes — the price of farmland will fall with it....More

A $108 million farmland purchase is unusual for its scale and reflects both the growing ranks of institutional investors aiming to boost their exposure to the buoyant agricultural real estate sector and a tight market in which few attractive properties are available for sale....More

Congress designed sugar policy to run at the lowest possible taxpayer cost and directed the USDA to do all within its power to keep the cost at $0. Sugar is the only commodity program to run at no cost to the federal government....More

40 new maps show major crop-producing areas in the United States, China, India, Pakistan, and South Africa....More

Sub-groups spent two days calling on a variety of congressional and regulatory offices, 'consciousness-raising' and asking that the pitiful level of federal funding for alfalfa research be raised to something approaching that of the 'program crops' (corn and soybeans) each of which receives over 10 times the level of annual research funding that alfalfa does....More