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**The USDA has announced a plan to tackle African Swine Fever if detected in the U.S.
Ag Secretary Perdue would immediately declare an "extraordinary emergency" and USDA would take the lead on a national response to control and eradicate the SWINE-ONLY disease...

The coronavirus COVID-19 is changing consumer demand in affected global regions and choking exports of U.S. produce to Asian markets.

More vineyards will be removed in California this year, as farmers and wineries work to correct an imbalance of their inventories in supply and demand.

The Center for Food Safety is suing the USDA to stop the National Organic Program from allowing hydroponically grown produce from being certified organic.

New USDA data shows the minimum hourly agricultural wage rates are highest in the Pacific Northwest. For 2019, the min. hourly wage in Washington and Oregon was $15.03.

The U.S. lost 58-hundred farms in 2019 versus 2018, but, according to USDA, that’s the smallest decline in recent years.

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says, effective immediately, U.S. wheat may now be shipped to Kenya regardless of state of origin or port of export.

With the trouble in hiring enough people during harvest season, the USDA has invested nearly $300 million into automation and mechanization of specialty-crop production.

U.S. farmers harvested nearly 3.3 million acres of certified organic field crops in 2019, driven by 14% more organic field crop operations.

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has informed USDA that U.S. chipping potatoes are now allowed to enter year-round.