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Uncertainty About 2016 U.S. Average Corn and Soybean Yields Persists
Farm Doc Daily | Posted onJuly 18, 2016 in NewsExpectations about the likely U.S. average corn and soybean yields at any point in the growing season are influenced by a number of factors. These include the trend in historical average yields, the timeliness of planting in the current year, weather conditions to date in the current year, and weather forecasts for the remainder of growing season.
Support Agriculture By Supporting New Growers
Growing Produce | Posted onJuly 18, 2016 in Agriculture NewsThe Young Farmer Success Act isn’t a handout. It’s a repayment plan, where those entering the agriculture industry are making income-based repayments consistently for 10 years, prior to qualifying for debt forgiveness. That means they have to make a 10-year commitment to agriculture before benefiting from such a program. If in 10 years, a grower has outstanding student debt, it’s forgiven.
Adaptation, Climate Change, Agriculture, and Water
Choices magazine | Posted onJuly 18, 2016 in Agriculture NewsCritics of water markets and efficient allocations in general claim that this flexibility is dangerous because high-income households and profitable firms could enjoy all the water they want, leaving low-income households to die of thirst. Would this happen if water was allocated by a market? Drinking is one of the highest valued uses of water in the entire market. A market for water is going to place a very high priority on getting people drinking water precisely because it is a high-valued use.
Dealing with Water Scarcity: Need for Economy-Wide Considerations and Institutions
Choices magazine | Posted onJuly 18, 2016 in Agriculture NewsA simple metric of water scarcity is the water availability per capita. We calculate it for both water-endowed and water-short countries.
Water Scarcity, Food Production, and Environmental Sustainability—Can Policy Make Sense?
Choices magazine | Posted onJuly 18, 2016 in Agriculture NewsConfusion exists about water scarcity, but much more confusion and disagreement prevails about policies and the means to address water scarcity. In an article published at the beginning of the millennium, Glieck (2003) compares 20th century water policies and those needed for the 21st century. Policies developed in the previous century were based on development of physical means, such as pipes and reservoirs.
Farmers ‘frustrated’ with public perception of ag
Agri-news | Posted onJuly 18, 2016 in Agriculture NewsA new survey conducted by Dow AgroSciences shows a widening gap between agriculture and consumers. The survey questioned 155 growers, between 35 and 65 years old, in the Midwest. Less than 2 percent say policymakers understand the impact of regulations on their businesses. Nearly 80 percent contend policymakers don’t understand the ag industry overall. Seventy-nine percent contend a more-informed consumer benefits U.S. agriculture. Only one in 10 say farmers can influence food company decisions on ag inputs used in their products.
Appeal filed to keep Oklahoma right to farm measure off ballot
Capital Press | Posted onJuly 14, 2016 in SARL Members and Alumni NewsAttorneys for opponents of Oklahoma’s so-called “Right to Farm” ballot initiative have filed an appeal to try to keep the measure off the statewide ballot in November. Attorney Heather Hintz tells The Oklahoman that an accelerated appeal was filed in hopes that the state Supreme Court will take up the case before an August deadline for the Oklahoma Election Board to print the November ballot. Nonprofit organization Save The Illinois River Inc., state Rep.
Feds inspect Lancaster County farm linked to tainted milk outbreak
Lancaster OnLine | Posted onJuly 14, 2016 in NewsFederal food inspectors, armed with a court order and escorted by police, inspected a Lancaster County farm on Monday linked in March to tainted milk. Amos Miller, who owns Miller’s Organic Farm, had denied inspectors access in April, but relented in the face of a court order from a federal judge.Two meat inspectors, accompanied by an Upper Leacock Township police officer, inspected the farm for about three hours, he said.
Maple Leaf Foods plant gets $90K boost
meatingplace.com | Posted onJuly 14, 2016 in Agriculture NewsMaple Leaf Foods has received $90,380 in federal and provincial government grants to bolster employee training at the company’s Hamilton, Ontario, processing plant.
In UK, more than 1,000 dairy farms close after milk price plunge
Theweek.co.uk | Posted onJuly 14, 2016 in NewsThe scale of the crisis facing Britain's dairy farmers following years of falling milk prices has been laid bare in a new report that shows that more than 1,000 farms have closed in the past three years. Low prices are partly to blame, says the AHDB, with wholesale milk prices often as much as 10p below the cost of production. The worst hit area of the UK is North Yorkshire, where 89 farms have closed, and the largest proportionate decline is in Berkshire, where a third of farms have now shut down.