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In September, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced it will provide a base $15 million investment, over the next five years, to support global research program led by UC-Davis. The research will focus on advancing fruit and vegetable production as well as improve handling and consumption efforts in struggling or developing nations ...

Texas A&M University has completed a comprehensive report on the U.S. cattle and beef markets in response to a bipartisan request from the House Agriculture Committee. Among its key findings is that proposals increasing government intervention and mandates will cost livestock producers billions of dollars. ...

American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duval pushed back against the Biden Administration’s stance that most small family farmers will escape a proposed capital gains tax to replace the stepped-up basis. Duval disputed the White House’s claim that a $2 million per couple exclusion on the gain on farm assets and that passed onto children, will let most off the hook on any new capital gains tax. “Wel

Texas A & M University published its analysis of the Trump administration’s trade aid program. The study’s authors say, “There’s no denying that the trade aid package, especially the Market Facilitation Program, has had a significant impact on farm income in the U.S.” Across all of t ...

It may sound like you have all of the time in the world, but March 15th will be here before you know it.  That’s the signup deadline for the USDA programs for the 2019 Program Year.   “As far as options available, there’s the Agricultural Risk County coverage option, known as ARC-County, which is a county-level, crop revenue-based enrolled on a crop-by-crop basis," said Shelby Myers Economist

Oregon State University has named their new Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. Alan Sams comes to Corvallis from Texas A&M where he was the Associate Dean of the school's Ag department. Oregon State’s Ed Feser said they are very lucky to get someone of Sams' caliber. “He h...

Merck Animal Health and Tyson Foods are providing funding to Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Poultry Science department to build a new research facility. Meat industry publication Meatingplace reports the two companies have provided a $500,000 gift for the laboratory where scientists will focus on solving intestinal health issues in poultry.   A Univ... Read Mo

What are the odds that Congress will pass a new Farm Bill by the end of the fiscal year in September?  Texas A&M Ag economist Joe Outlaw spoke at a recent Farm Foundation Forum in Washington DC.   "I actually think this bill is going to get done this year," Outlaw said. "Maybe not quite ...

With all the negative news about wildfires these days, it's not surprising that ranchers may not have thought about the benefits of prescribed burning.   "We get benefit that herbicide can't compare to, that grazing can't compare to. Now...