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Looking Ahead to the 2020 Crop Season, What to Expect from NASS Numbers

February 26, 2020 Hubert Hamer, Administrator, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service

With the 2020 growing season about to begin for major field crops such as corn and soybeans, we’d like to walk through the surveys and data used during a complete season of field crop estimation. As a way to help you prepare for the 2020 data releases, we’ll explain in a series of articles the...

Research and Science

Nation’s Wettest 12-Month Period on Record Slows Down 2019 Planting Season

June 14, 2019 USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey

The contiguous United States recently completed its wettest May to April period on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA/NCEI). From May 2018 to April 2019, an average of 36.20 inches of precipitation fell...

Climate Farming

“Agriculture and Commerce:” Tennessee Remains Strong in the Changing Face of Agriculture

May 31, 2019 Debra Kenerson, Tennessee State Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Since 1801, Tennessee’s motto has been “Agriculture and Commerce.” As we see in the latest Census of Agriculture results, our farmers do their part keep our motto alive, with agriculture remaining the number one industry in the state. In 2017, our state’s farmers and ranchers sold more than $3.8...

Research and Science

Abundant Supplies are Forecast for the Coming Crop Year in the U.S. and Around the World

May 17, 2019 Seth Meyer, Chairman, World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB)

It’s a new year at USDA, at least for those of us forecasting agricultural commodity markets. Every May, the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) in the Office of the Chief Economist releases USDA’s initial projections of the markets for the crops and livestock that will be produced and harvested...

Farming Research and Science

Microloan Gets Getting Growing

March 25, 2014 Cassie Bable, Public Affairs Specialist, FSA Office of External Affairs

This post is part of a Microloan Success feature series on the USDA blog. Check back every Tuesday and Thursday as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s Farm Service Agency. Beginning farmer Andy Getting was doing some research on the Internet when he came across information on USDA’s Microloan...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

#Newfarmers: Please Join me at the Table

February 25, 2014 Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden

Coming from a farming family in Georgia, I know firsthand the risks farmers take each and every day. The work is hard, the margins are slim and Mother Nature can be fickle. The questions that my family is asking about what happens to our farm in the future are questions that are shared by farmers...

Conservation Technology

Cover Crops Improve Soil & Provide Food for Cattle

November 19, 2013 Pattie Thomas, Natural Resources Conservation Service

The Bremmer family has raised cattle and grown crops in northwestern Illinois for more than a century. Over time, they’ve found ways to improve their operation -- the latest improvement is the use of cover crops. Brothers Ross and Chad Bremmer, fourth-generation farmers, are already seeing the...

Conservation

Cochran Fellow Influences Food Security in Mozambique

November 08, 2013 Brian Guse, Foreign Agricultural Service, Director of Trade & Scientific Exchanges Division

Promoting food security and agricultural development around the world is a key part of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) mission. One way FAS does this is by providing educational opportunities to emerging leaders from developing countries through programs such as the Cochran Fellowship Program...

Food and Nutrition Trade

The United States is China’s Soybean Supplier of Choice

February 22, 2012 Michael Scuse, USDA Acting Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services

Last week was a momentous one for U.S.-China agricultural relations. In addition to the productive meetings that took place in Washington and Des Moines, I was honored to witness the signing of an agreement between the U.S. soybean industry and Chinese buyers who agreed to purchase more than 8.6...

Trade

USDA Science Unlocks the Genetic Secrets of the Soybean

January 14, 2010

Today, the work of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), our State Land Grant Universities, and the Department of Energy (DOE) is featured as the cover story in the prestigious science journal, Nature. I am very proud and excited that USDA science played an important part in...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science
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