Month: July 2022

Young adults face higher rates of food insecurity Gen Z adults were nearly twice as likely to have experienced food insecurity in the first half of 2022 than other adults, according to a report by Purdue University’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability. Among these adults — born after… Continue reading

(AG Insider) The Agriculture Department said it would enroll more than 3.1 million acres of grasslands — the largest amount ever — in the Conservation Reserve Program this fall, underlying the transformation of the reserve into a working lands program. The CRP was created in 1985 during an agricultural recession… Continue reading

(AG Insider) Wholesale prices rocketed by a near-record 11.3 percent for the year ending in June, said the Labor Department on Thursday, a day after it reported that consumer prices had soared 9.1 percent during the same period. Food was an inflationary factor in both reports, although some analysts saw… Continue reading

(AG Insider) Last June, as a record-breaking heatwave baked Oregon’s Willamette Valley, Sebastian Francisco Perez was moving irrigation lines at a large plant nursery in 104-degree-heat. When he didn’t appear at the end of his shift, his co-workers went looking for him, and found him collapsed between rows of trees…. Continue reading

House votes to ban sale of U.S. farmland to Russia and China Companies from Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran would be barred from purchasing U.S. agricultural land under language approved by the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday. School nutrition bill back to House for final approval The House and… Continue reading

(AG Insider) One farmer dogged pipeline surveyors as they traversed his southwestern Iowa fields, peppering them with unwelcome questions about their proposed project. Another cornered Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds at a fundraising event. A third painted “No Carbon Pipeline” on a semi-trailer and parked it at the intersection of two… Continue reading

Thompson, Lucas and Westerman Introduce Bill to Improve Greenhouse Gas Capture and Storage PRESS RELEASE July 12, 2022 Contact: Taylor McCarty Hoover Carlton Norwood WASHINGTON, DC — Today, House Agriculture Committee Republican Leader Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA), House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Republican Leader Frank Lucas (R-OK), and House… Continue reading

Growth slows as world population nears 8 billion The global population is growing at its slowest rate since 1950, less than 1 percent a year, said the United Nations on Monday, with the population forecast to pass the milestone of 8 billion on Nov. 15. India was expected to surpass… Continue reading

Global food prices moderate after hitting all-time high The FAO Food Price Index, a barometer of prices for food commodities, rocketed to a record high immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine and disrupted food supply chains. Now it is down for the third month in a row, with large global harvests… Continue reading

Commodity prices soften, although still elevated Steered by fears of recession and a clearer picture of this year’s global grain harvest, the sky-high commodity prices fueled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are losing momentum, analysts said on Thursday. The USDA was likely to scale back its estimates of record-high farm-gate… Continue reading