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 National Watermelon Promotion Board is seeking nominations for four members in District 2, which covers 39 counties in Florida and all of North and South Carolina.
The Agriculture Department has begun talking with grocery retailers about their potential role in a proposal to replace some food-stamp allocations with prepackaged boxes of groceries.
The Agriculture Department has begun talking with grocery retailers about their potential role in a proposal to replace some food-stamp allocations with prepackaged boxes of groceries.
The Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture, citing the agencies' dual roles with enforcing the Food Safety Modernization Act, have pledged to work together on food oversight.
President Donald Trump has selected Western Growers executive Ken Barbic to be the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s assistant secretary for Congressional relations.
As the 2018 farm bill continues to take shape, the House Agriculture Committee has launched a landing page on its website with information and updates related to the process.
Cranberries might be a staple on Thanksgiving tables, but a glut of U.S. supplies has gotten so large that fruit could be headed to the compost pile.
Do hydroponics, aeroponics and aquaponics fit into the organic category? U.S. regulators appear poised to answer that long-debated question, and their ruling could shake up the organics business.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is offering a searchable database of companies conforming to Good Agricultural Practice audits performed by the agency’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
With support from U.S. importers and non-specialty crop ag groups, Mexican avocado exporters sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue asking for swift action on a May 2016 final rule that approved avocado imports from all of Mexico. The USDA currently allows only Mexican avocados grown in the state of Michoacán state to enter the U.S. The letter said the final rule was based upon a detailed pest-risk analysis that showed expanding the program would not jeopardize the phytosanitary security of U.S. growers.
The dollar and convenience store trend may be a downer for fresh produce consumption. That is at least one takeaway from a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service that looks at where
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act reparation awards.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service plans to issue a second 60-day stay on allowing lemons from Argentina into the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act against Penny Tsigaris, doing business as Manavi Produce.
New York-based Fairway Group Holdings Corp. and its subsidiaries posted $1 million in surety bonds with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to obtain Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act licenses to operate in the prod
After a Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act complaint was filed in mid-December, the American Fruit and Produce Corp. of Opa Locka, Fla., has paid produce sellers in full, along with a $45,000 civil penalty, accordin
Houston-based Lone Star Fruit & Vegetable Inc. has posted a $60,000 surety bond to employ John Honeycutt, previously named in a Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act action.
A 126-page evaluation of a four-state pilot using canned, frozen or dried fruits and vegetables in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program showed two-thirds of parents surveyed during the pilot wanted the program to contin
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on four produce companies for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
Using the carrot, the stick or both to drive healthy food purchases by food stamp recipients is the question being considered by the House Agriculture Committee.
After filing an administrative complaint against Sandia Distributors last April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has now cited the Nogales, Ariz.-based company for failure to pay for produce, according to a USDA news
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended the comment period through mid-March for a proposed rule to allow Colombian hass avocados into the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is conducting a referendum for cranberry growers to consider an amendment that would allow the federal cranberry marketing order to receive voluntary contributions.
(UPDATED, 4:29 p.m.) Just two days after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued a 60-day stay on the USDA's final rule issued D
Promising a new era in consumer awareness of the U.S. Department of Agriculture organic seal, backers of the proposed organic research and promotion order say it could raise more than $30 million a year for research, tec
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture is awarding four grants totaling more than $13.6 million to combat citrus greening disease.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act against American Fruit & Produce Corp.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates in its Jan. 12 report that the Florida orange crop will be 71 million 90-pound boxes, one million less than expected in the December forecast, a decrease of about 1%.
