Occupational Safety and Health Act
Workplace safety laws provide general protections to workers and additional safeguards specific to production agriculture. Background: A safe and healthful workplace is important for all workers. Farmers and agribusiness operators […]
Read moreWe Don’t Do Sustainability Because It’s Cool, But Because It’s Best for Business
American farmers and producers are focused on sustainability and taking care of the land for future generations, writes Ekonom deputy editor Martin Petricek.
Read moreClimate-Smart Projects Awarded $325M by USDA, For Total Investment of $3.1 Billion
Seventy-one climate-smart projects that expand opportunities for small and underserved producers will receive $325 million in funding through USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative, Secretary Vilsack announced.
Read moreMy Commitment to Sustainability Means Beef Will Always Have a Place on My Menus
To the naysayers who claim beef is “ruining the environment,” Colorado farmer-turned-chef-restauranteur Alex Seidel says he knows from his decades of training that this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Read moreNorth Carolina SweetPotato Commission Joins the U.S. Sustainability Alliance
The not-for-profit, which represents the state’s sweetpotato industry, expands USSA’s membership to 24 farming, fishery, and forestry trade associations and supply chain partners across the United States.
Read moreFrom Jet Fuel to Beer: New USSA Podcast Uncovers Innovative Uses for Food Waste
The latest episode of This is U.S. Sustainability, the U.S. Sustainability Alliance podcast, is now available to download. Tune in for the lowdown on the innovative, often surprising ways the almond […]
Read moreWendy Yeager: Soybean Farmer, Front-line Conservationist, Innovator
Fourth-generation Alabama farmer Wendy Yeager grows multiple crops on her 445-hectare family farm near Orrville, from soybeans to cotton. She describes herself as a front-line conservationist for whom sustainability is a way of life.
Read moreField to Market Report Shows Growth in Climate Action Across Agriculture Value Chain
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 […]
Read moreSecretary Vilsack on How American Agriculture Rises to the Challenge of Climate Change
U.S. farmers are at the sharp end of climate change, writes U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, but they are adapting and rising to the challenge.
Read moreThe Impact of Farm Policy and The War in Ukraine on America’s Food Supply
By Peter Bachmann, Vice President, Policy & Government Affairs, USA Rice.
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