Recent Sustainability News

The Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC), representing U.S. agricultural producers across 574 federally recognized American Indian tribes and Alaska Native Villages, has joined the U.S. Sustainability Alliance (USSA). This brings USSA’s…

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) and Black Farmers Index, the largest public listing of black agriculturalists in the U.S., have joined forces to diversify organic agribusiness, a large and growing industry in…

Organizations across the agriculture value chain are focusing greater attention on the climate crisis, according to the latest Climate Compendium from Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture™. The…

Kevin Hudson, a Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture spotlight honoree, is a Tribal Farm Manager for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) in Pendleton, Oregon….

Seventy climate-smart projects have been selected to receive an investment totalling $2.8 billion under USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program. Projects identified in this first round of funding are diverse…

The U.S. Soy Sustainability Assurance Protocol (SSAP), which verifies and documents sustainable soy production, has earned Silver Level Equivalence when benchmarked with the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform (SAI Platform)’s Farm…

Close to $20 billion is to be invested in climate-smart agriculture in the United States. This is part of a $40 billion support package for agriculture, forestry, and rural development…

At this year’s G20 Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists in Bali on 5th – 7th July, the U.S. Department of Agriculture highlighted the importance of agricultural research and development in…

Soil health is top of mind for U.S. soybean farmer Kenny Brinker, who grows soybeans and corn and operates a farrow-to-finish hog operation in Auxvasse, Missouri. The Brinker family has…

According to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), without peace in Ukraine, the…

On a visit to a family-owned creamery in Ely, Iowa, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced a pilot program to support the development of bio-based products that have lower…

Food Export USA-Northeast is leading a trade mission to Europe this September to help expand markets for U.S. shellfish growers and dealers from the Northeast. The mission follows the resumption…

Located in the foothills of North Carolina, Grayhouse Farms is the winner of an Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability award, honored by Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy for its exemplary commitment to…

Hardwick Planting Company, Louisiana, is the first cotton farm in the United States to be certified by regenagri, an international agriculture initiative, and the first to join Citizens of Humanity…