Specialty crop growers have nearly doubled their participation in federal risk management programs over the past ten years, according to a new report from the USDA’s Economic Research Service.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on five businesses for failure to pay after receiving sanctions under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is restricting California and New York businesses from operating in the industry, including meal kit company Chef’d, which closed abruptly last July when it ran out of funds.
The USDA has cited a Los Angeles company for failing to pay $750,000 for fresh produce, and sanctioned four other companies, all for Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act violations.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative are seeking nominations for six trade advisory committees, including one for the fruit and vegetable industry.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - U.S. Department of Agriculture organic certification of hydroponic operations is a settled issue, USDA National Organic Program Deputy Administrator Jennifer Tucker said Feb. 1.
About two dozen fresh produce and nut companies are recipients of funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s $200 million Agricultural Trade Promotion Program, to alleviate the effects of tariffs on exports.
Even after President Trump announced Jan. 25 a three-week reprieve from the partial government shutdown, M. Levin and Company Inc. is will offer free fresh produce to affected government employees.
After a tough year for the southeastern produce industry, more than 3,400 of those growers and packers started the new year afresh at the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Savannah, Ga.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cited Tumi Produce International Corp., Bronx, N.Y., for failing to pay for more than half a million dollars of produce.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to pay reparation awards issued through the Perishable Agriculture Commodities Act.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that a Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act complaint Imperial Frozen Foods Op Co LLC, Wake Forest, N.C., has been closed.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., and Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., set the stage for the March on Capitol Hill fresh produce industry leaders on Sept. 25.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defending the administration’s trade agenda but warning friction with China may not end soon, a trade official said the administration is hopeful Canada will approve an updated trade agreement.
Sales of table stock potatoes in the 2017-18 season totaled 107 million cwt., a 6% drop from the previous year, but the national average price-per-cwt. rose $1.13, to $11.73, according to the USDA.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is reducing regulations involving the approval of new imports of fresh fruits and vegetables into the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will make special purchases of well over $400 million in fruits and nuts to help U.S. growers hurt by retaliatory tariffs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is calling out a recent ruling in the European Union that puts products from new “gene editing” methods such as CRISPR in the same category of all techniques for GMOs.
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture has confirmed the first sighting of the spotted lanternfly — which feeds on a wide range of fruit — in the state.
(UPDATED, July 25) With no direct payments expected for specialty crop growers, the Trump administration announced its plan to help farmers hurt by retaliatory trade tariffs with up to $12 billion in government relief.
Ken Barbic, former senior director of federal governmental affairs for Western Growers, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s senior director of federal governmental affairs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, acting on requests from cranberry growers, is placing controls on the 2017-18 crop to help bring supplies in line with demand.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, acting on requests from cranberry growers, is placing controls on the 2017-18 crop to help bring supplies in line with demand.
Plant breeders who use gene-editing techniques without introducing genes from another species won’t be regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, (foreground), Lef Farms in Loudon, N.H., in September during a “Back to Our Roots” RV tour. Perdue and USDA staff are again traveling in an RV this week.
Researchers studying the Asian citrus psyllid and how it spreads huanglongbing (HLB/citrus greening) say the key to beating the disease is in how the bacteria infects only that specific pest.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is allocating about $70 million to support almost 500 projects across the U.S. to attack invasive plant pests and disease.
