Author: The Farm Report

(USA/ICNIRP) — The coronavirus pandemic and its ongoing consequences have given us all plenty to think about and worry about. But there’s one thing you can permanently take off your concern list: 5G has no causal connection to COVID-19, contrary to several recent misguided online rumors.   In fact, according… Continue reading

    (USDA/AG Insider) The USDA has issued waivers to 43 states that make it easier for schools to provide food to low-income children who lost access to free or reduced-price meals due to coronarvirus closures, said a spokesman on Wednesday. An anti-hunger group called for more flexible treatment and… Continue reading

Programs that pay farmers to sequester carbon in their soil are ramping up. But a growing chorus of skeptics cautions that the results may not live up to the hype.   (FERN Network) Trey Hill led a small group of fellow farmers to a field outside his office in Rock… Continue reading

Migrant farmworkers feed America, and they’re at high risk for a coronavirus outbreak     (FERN Network) Every day, throughout California’s major agricultural regions, thousands of farmworkers are still piling into dusty vans and buses to be driven to fields and orchards. There, they move through rows of lettuce and… Continue reading

Institutions Close, Farmers are left without a market (AG Insider) The spread of the novel coronavirus has shuttered colleges, closed hospitals to visitors, and otherwise radically altered how many institutions operate. For some local farmers who have sold food to those operations’ cafeterias, it will prove difficult to recover from… Continue reading

Project aims to feed Americas low-income children during school closures   (AG Insider) Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the second public-private initiative to provide replacement meals for low-income children who lost access to free or reduced-price meals due to school closures. The new project would feed children “vulnerable to hunger”… Continue reading

  As Congress earmarks aid for ag, farm groups say more may be needed   Farmers and ranchers would see $23.5 billion in aid under the coronavirus bill agreed on by the Senate and the Trump administration on Wednesday. The two largest U.S. farm groups welcomed the aid but said… Continue reading

  Fishers, brewers, distillers: What aid do they need to survive Covid-19?   As the spread of the novel coronavirus disrupts business as usual across the country, food producers of all kinds are turning to the government for the help they say they need to stay afloat through the pandemic…. Continue reading

  As coronavirus drives down commodity prices, farm groups ask for aid   By driving down commodity prices, the coronavirus outbreak is draining $50-$90 an acre from corn and soybean revenue that farmers expect to receive this year, said economists Brent Gloy and David Widmar on Monday. Farm leaders said… Continue reading