Tag: USDA
A new program from the Department of Agriculture will help cover losses stemming from natural disasters in 2020 and 2021.
As Danny Munch, American Farm Bureau Federation Economist points out, this new ERP program is basically a revamped version of...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government implemented multiple assistance and stimulus packages to aid consumers and businesses, including agricultural producers. Agricultural operations qualified for assistance from three relief programs in 2020: The Coronavirus Food Assistance Programs...
The coronavirus pandemic has widely affected the U.S. economy, including the farm sector and farm households. Farm businesses have experienced disruptions to production because of lowered availability of labor and other inputs, and reductions in output prices resulting from...
Corn, soybean, and cotton production is up from 2020, according to the Crop Production report issued today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Corn production is up 6% from last year, forecast at 15.0 billion bushels; soybean growers...
A recent report conducted by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has estimated the impact of AFP tax proposals on family farmers and ranchers.
The proposed changes in AFP would make accumulated gains (in asset value) subject...
Ever since he rode in a state-of-the art self propelled sprayer at the 2017 Farm Progress Show, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has been a consistent proponent of precision agriculture. Frequently highlighting the environmental and economic benefits of the technology, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) understands precision agriculture...
Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser published a research paper about how crop yelds changed over the long-term. This article was substantially revisioned in 2019, because in his first version covered aspects of agricultural land use.
In the chart up here...
A project funded through USDA’s ReConnect rural broadband infrastructure program has firstly announced in Tennessee.
The project has a powerful impact throughout Crockett, Dyer, and Lauderdale counties as the residents, farmers, and business owners will no longer have to drive...
Trees and crops are experiencing stress, productivity loss and even death in coastal areas due to saltwater intrusion and salinization. Somerset County, Maryland has been losing farmland to salt marsh migration at a rate of 100 acres per year...
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