Printer Friendly FormatEmail Page. The metrics, which are guidelines for good agricultural practices to be followed by marketing agreement signatories, were proposed by a coalition of leafy greens industry members, and were reviewed and endorsed by food science experts in academia and government. The metrics, which are guidelines for good agricultural practices to be followed by marketing agreement signatories, were proposed by a coalition of leafy greens industry members, and were...

The USDA said because soybean and corn are quite often interchangeable in parts of the Midwest and South, farmers have dropped beans to go with corn because corn prices have all but doubled over the last year. The USDA estimates US demand for corn for ethanol production will rise 50 per cent to 3.2 billion bushels of the possible record total figure of over 13. Why has this happened? The doubling in the corn prices over the past year and increasing yields means farmers get more from the...

Otherwise the inefficient producers would have gotten out of the business, the supply would have dropped, and demand remaining what it was, the price of corn would have risen. Of course that would have meant that those inefficient producers would have had to work to find other sources of income, and why should they do that, as long as there's a politician ready to trade taxpayer dollars for the votes of those with either an interest in the inefficient business, or too little knowledge to...

This phenomenonfirst became apparent among commercial migratory beekeepers along the East Coastduring the last few months of 2006, and has since been reported nationwide. Honey bees are the most economically valuable pollinators of agricultural cropsworldwide. The monetary valueof honey bees as commercial pollinators in the United States is estimated at about$15 billion annually. Welcome toBattle Creek Enquirer-Battle Creek, Mich. Report examines decline in honeybee colonies From the...

PORTLAND Oregon farmers, ranchers, dairy operators, and other agricultural producers and businesses can get seed money to help develop clean, renewable energy on their property. Rural agricultural producers and businesses, including farms, ranches, dairies, nurseries, and forest products firms, are eligible to apply for the two USDA programs. The Section 9006 program provides grants and loans to help rural small businesses and agricultural producers purchase and install renewable power...