For more than 100 years, the United States has protected and enhanced its farms, forests and waters. Federal and state commitments to conservation and environmental sustainability date back to the…
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U.S. food and farm export organizations are part of a new consumer initiative from USDA to celebrate the quality, variety and nutritional benefits of American products available in Europe. Promoted…
Washington has given the green light a mini trade deal between the United States and EU, which will eliminate customs duties on U.S. lobster imports. Tariffs will be removed for…
European consumers rank taste, safety, and cost ahead of environmental issues when it comes to sustainability of their food. This is the main finding of a European Commission Special Eurobarometer…
Row crop farmers are willing to adopt conservation practices and believe that doing so improves their profitability in the long run. However, “they don’t feel that they can, or should,…
Family farms are the beating heart of U.S. agriculture, confirms a new report from USDA’s Economic Research Service. Most (90%) farms are small (with gross cash income less than $350,000)…
American food company Smithfield Foods, Inc. has won a trio of Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards from industry publication ProFood World for improving sustainability in its facilities and going beyond environmental compliance. Smithfield’s Crete facility…
More than half of U.S. consumers rate farmers’ sustainability practices as excellent or good, while an overwhelming majority (88%) trust farmers, according to a national opinion poll from The American…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has completed and published updates to its National Conservation Practice Standards. Fifty-eight standards covering a wide range of practices,…
A prolonged period of low commodity prices has created significant financial pressures for U.S. agriculture, jeopardizing many farming operations and challenging the ability of supply chains to meet ambitious sustainability…
The European Commission’s Farm to Fork strategy and Biodiversity strategies are the focus of a new economic brief from the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS). It examines three adoption scenarios…
Underscoring its commitment to bold climate change action, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy today launched the Net Zero Initiative, an industry-wide effort to help U.S. dairy farms of all…
Sales of American organic commodities overall rose by 31% to $9.93 billion from 2016 to 2019, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) 2019 Organic…
Getting to know your audience is the foundation of effective science communication, says 2020 CAST Communications Award winner Dr. Alexa Lamm, of the University of Georgia. The message is just…
