Tag: USDA
How to understand the livestock markets
Understanding the terms in a livestock market report can be confusing. Here is a quick run down of what the terms being used on livestock during a sale means.
Loans for beginning farmers? Check with FSA
To help the next generation of farmers get started, your local USDA Farm Service Agency office is offering loans for beginning farmers.
The grain market’s Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory has been postulated by science to explain the origin of the universe. Some incredibly large explosion, according to this theory,...
USDA begins 49th enrollment period for the Conservation Reserve Program
As of September 2015, 24.2 million acres were enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program.
USDA report: Farm profitability weakens in 2015
Farmers are pinched this year. A 38.2 percent drop in U.S. net farm income would be the largest single-year decline since 1983.
Marketing loans: Put the grain in those bins to work
Visit a Farm Service Agency office and take a Market Assistance Loan out on your stored bushels in the bin.
Dairymen have until Nov. 20 to join Margin Protection Program
Dairymen have until Nov. 20 to enroll in the federal Margin Protection Program for coverage in 2016.
USDA readies for threat of more avian influenza
USDA officials update Senate Ag Committee on status of avian influenza.
USDA extends crop program deadlines until April 7
Farmers have an additional week, until April 7, to choose between Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC), the safety net programs established by the 2014 farm bill.
No clear-cut answer: Forestry groups say checkoff battle is not...
ZANESVILLE, Ohio — The Ohio Forestry Association has yet to take an official stance against the proposed Hardwood Lumber and Hardwood Plywood Promotion, Research...
