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07/01/2011 11:27 AM EDT
The USDA Commodity Credit Corporation, which helps stabilize, support and protect farm income and prices, released interest rates for July 2011. The borrowing rate-based charge is 0.125, which is down from 0.250 from June 2011, while the 1996 and subsequent crop year commodity and marketing assistance loans dispersed during July is 1.125, down 1.250 from last month. Interest rates for Farm Storage Facility Loans and discount rates for the Tobacco Transition Payment Program also are available. Read more.
06/30/2011 02:58 PM EDT
Farm Service Agency (FSA) acting Administrator Bruce Nelson praised Director of Contracting Activity Designee Joyce Bowie recently for her career work that earned her the distinguished USDA Champion Award at the Small Business and AbilityOne Award ceremony held at USDA. A member of the FSA Acquisition Management Division, Bowie was honored for effectively educating her internal customers about small business contractors and promoting the use of their services. Read more (USDA blog).
06/30/2011 01:51 PM EDT
Emergency grazing for land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program has been approved for eight Colorado counties. "This authorization provides relief for many Colorado livestock producers who have suffered through severe drought conditions," said Trudy Kareus, FSA state executive director. "The drought has depleted hay supplies and affected the growth of hay and pasture in parts of Colorado. Many livestock producers cannot maintain their current herds without implementation of CRP emergency grazing." The emergency grazing will be allowed through Sept. 30, 2011. Learn more.
06/30/2011 12:11 PM EDT
Texas cotton farmers may opt to make crop insurance claims rather than harvest cotton as the worst drought in more than a century continues to plague the state. "This year will probably rank among the top abandonments," said John Robinson, a professor and extension economist at Texas A&M University in College Station. "The situation looks very grave." The U.S. Department of Agriculture declared the entire state of Texas as a primary natural disaster area this week due drought and wildfires. Read more (Bloomberg) or review the natural disaster declaration.
06/30/2011 11:10 AM EDT
U.S. farmers planted 92.3 million acres of corn in 2011, up 4.6 percent from last year, according to report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Driven by higher commodity prices, U.S. corn growers increased planted acreage by 4.1 million acres from last year. This is the third consecutive year of increased corn acreage and is the second-largest corn acreage in more than 60 years. Learn more.
06/28/2011 09:04 AM EDT
Weather around the country may prove difficult for producers as flooding in the northern plains and upper Midwest is expected to continue throughout the summer, according to USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey. While favorable conditions are expected in parts of the northwest, drought conditions will continue to plague the southwest along with wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico.
06/24/2011 10:47 PM EDT
The People's Garden at USDA Headquarters in Washington, DC. was the location of the 5th Annual Pollinator Celebration. Various activities and exhibits on bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles highlighted the work of USDA agencies and federal partners. One of the exhibits "Celebrating 25 Years of the Conservation Reserve Program", featured FSA's Zip the Bee who was there to help spread the word about the benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program and its new CP42 practice. Zip is well known on the FSA Kids page as the tour guide in the popular AgVenture Game which can be played online. Zip...
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