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UK Foodservice Companies Want Sustainable Products

A U.K. survey indicates that 100% of foodservice businesses would choose to work with a procurement partner that helps them identify sustainable products compared with those who don’t – proving that sustainable buying is now firmly set as a key priority.

U.S. Sustainability Alliance Welcomes New Members

The USSA welcomes the Organic Trade Association (OTA) and U.S. Wheat Associates (USW). The addition of these two important partners in U.S. agriculture helps to broaden even further the appeal and wide range of interests covered by the USSA.

Tree Mapping Study Finds Three Trillion Trees on Earth

In an interview with the BBC News, the Yale team said that the new estimate represents upwards of 420 trees for every person on the planet.

U.S. Wheat Organizations Step Up Agriculture Sustainability Initiatives

By Elizabeth Westendorf A rapidly emerging food marketing trend is the concept of “sustainable production.” Sustainability is not clearly defined and therefore means something different to each participant in the […]

Wheat Industry Steps Up Engagement in U.S. Sustainable Agriculture

The stakes are high in this game for industry impact and environmental protection, and this creates challenges for producers. U.S. farmers are committed to continuous improvement, and that is why U.S. wheat industry organizations are actively engaged in relevant sustainability initiatives.

U.S. Official Says Time to Put Aside Differences to Feed the World’s Hungry

Phil Karsting, Administrator of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, challenged the world’s leading agricultural producers to embrace innovation and make decisions based on science to feed the world’s hungry.

Farmers Stepping Up for Resource Management Plans

Just one year after Virginia’s Resource Management Plan (RMP) program was implemented, the plans are rolling in.

Soy-based AstroTurf Helps UCLA Score Big on Water Conservation

The University’s latest move is expected to conserve more than 6.5 million gallons of water annually.

July 2015 Marks Highest Monthly Global Temperature

In addition to setting a record for July, the first seven months of 2015 were the warmest ever, breaking the record set in 2010.

Meet Jennifer James: A Fourth Generation Rice Farmer

Buzzwords like “sustainability” and “conservation” may seem au courant to Madison Avenue marketers but for Jennifer James, a fourth generation rice farmer from Arkansas, these concepts are nothing new.

The Profit Potential of Certified Organic Crop Production

The USDA's Economic Research Service has published a new analysis of cost-of-production differences between conventional and organic crop production systems using data from targeted surveys of organic corn, wheat, and soybean production.

Agricultural Productivity Growth in the US: Measurement, Trends, and Drivers

Economic Research Report No. (ERR-189) 78 pp, July 2015 by Sun Ling Wang, Paul Heisey, David Schimmelpfennig, and Eldon Ball The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has published a […]