Press Release from USDA: WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2021 – At the United Nations Food Systems Summit this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture highlighted $5 billion in planned investments and several…
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A new podcast series from The U.S. Sustainability Alliance aims to debunk some of the most common myths and misperceptions about U.S. agriculture and food production, by talking to the…
U.S. Livestock Genetics Export, Inc. (USLGE) has joined The U.S. Sustainability Alliance. Representing the U.S. dairy, beef, swine, horse, and small ruminant breeding industries, and with members including the embryo,…
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reaffirmed USDA’s commitment to tackling climate change through innovation in all its forms. Scaling up production to feed a growing world while minimizing impacts on…
This month (September), visitors to the London Design Museum will be able to see the results of American Hardwood Export Council’s collaboration with leading design magazine Wallpaper. Their Discovered initiative…
The U.S. Soy Sustainability Assurance Protocol (SSAP), which verifies U.S. soybean farmers’ commitment to sustainability, has reached a new milestone. More than 100 million metric tons (or 100,000 million kilograms)…
Without the rendering industry, U.S. landfills would be at capacity in just four years. That’s according to Kent Swisher, the newly elected president and CEO of the North American Renderers…
The Council for Agriculture Science and Technology (CAST) has released its latest paper looking at the role of agricultural science and technology in climate mitigation and adaptation – key aims…
On 12 July, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack addressed the EU Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (the AGRI Committee) remotely on the most pressing issues in food and…
Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture has launched Fieldprint Platform 4.0 to provide the most up to date sustainability assessment tool for commodity crop production in the United…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has invested more than $5.4 million in bioprocessing, bioengineering, biofuels, and biobased products research in the last 12…
COVID-19 has moved the world further away from reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Governments therefore urgently need to step up their efforts to meet global food security and…
The Organic Trade Association is fighting back against food fraud as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prepares to strengthen its oversight of imports through the organic supply chain. More…
U.S. farm exports are projected to reach an all-time high of €135 billion ($164 billion) this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) quarterly agricultural trade forecast. That’s…
The USDA Economic Research Service has updated its data sets which provide information on population, income, poverty, food security, education, employment/unemployment, farm characteristics, farm financial indicators, top commodities, and agricultural…
Home cooking trends during the pandemic have led to an organic revolution across the United States. That’s according to the Organic Trade Association’s 2021 Organic Industry Survey. U.S. organic food…
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has reached a ‘turning point’ in its approach to the environment. It has set an ambitious target to reduce its…
Cutting our use of leather would not stop cattle production. However, it would damage the environment, create more waste, increase greenhouse gases, and drive more demand for cheap, often polluting…
Precision agriculture technologies improve environmental stewardship while providing an economic return for farmers. A new study, Environmental Benefits of Precision Agriculture, based on the combined expertise of the Association of…
This year’s CAST Communication Award[1] goes to Cornell research professor Sarah Evanega, director of the Cornell Alliance for Science, who is described as a pioneer, international leader, and icon of…
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