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)…
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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…
A new report from Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture highlights the public climate commitments made by 89 of its member organizations and sets out a shared vision…
USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded 12 grants totaling over $7 million to initiate research into predictive technology innovations needed to keep U.S. agriculture on the…
American cotton growers can now join the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a new standard for verifying the sustainability progress of U.S. cotton. As consumers continue to demand eco-friendly products, enrolling…
Privately-owned global food company Cargill is supporting farmer-led efforts to adopt regenerative agriculture practices across 10 million acres (four million hectares) of North American farmland in the next ten years….
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA), which represents farmer and rancher-led organizations, has published a new SDG roadmap report which has been endorsed by the World Business Council for…
