U.S. Wheat Associates By Steve Mercer, USW Vice President of Communications When U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) was planning to hold its 2019 Mexico Wheat Trade Conference June 2 to 4, 2019, no one anticipated that the threat of new tariffs … Continued
USDA Farm Service Agency USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will begin accepting nominations for county committee members on Friday, June 14, 2019. Agricultural producers who participate or cooperate in an FSA program may be nominated for candidacy for the county … Continued
National Association of Wheat Growers and U.S. Wheat Associates Contact: Caitlin Eannello, Director of Communications, National Association of Wheat Growers ceannello@wheatworld.org, (202) 547-7800 Steve Mercer, Vice President of Communications, U.S. Wheat Associates smercer@uswheat.org, (703) 650-0251 U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the … Continued
USDA Contact: USDA Press Email: press@oc.usda.gov U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take several actions to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation and trade disruption. President Trump directed … Continued
National Association of Wheat Growers/U.S. Wheat Associates Contact: Caitlin Eanello, Director of Communications, National Association of Wheat Growers ceanello@wheatworld.org, (202) 547-7800 Steve Mercer, Vice President of Communications, U.S. Wheat Associates smercer@uswheat.org, (703) 650-0251 The announcement today that Section 232 tariffs on … Continued
AgriLife Today Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Shuyu Liu, 806-677-5600, shuyu.liu@ag.tamu.edu Wheat curl mite, greenbug and Hessian fly have long been troublemaker pests for Texas wheat, but a team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists is ready to go high … Continued
National Association of Wheat Growers Contact: Caitlin Eannello 240-423-4345 (Cell) Today, the USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that it will hold a continuous signup period for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) beginning June 3, 2019 and offer extensions for expiring … Continued
National Association of Wheat Growers Contact: Caitlin Eannello 240-423-4345 (Cell) Today, the USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that it will hold a continuous signup period for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) beginning June 3, 2019 and offer extensions for expiring … Continued
National Association of Wheat Growers Caitlin Eannello, NAWG, ceannello@wheatworld.org 202-547-7800 Wendy Brannen, ASA, wbrannen@soy.org 202-969-7040 Liz Friedlander, NCGA, friedlander@ncga.com 202-362-0644 Today, the U.S. Trade Representative moved forward with increasing the tariff rate from 10 to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. Farmers across … Continued
USDA Contact: Media Inquiries FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is expanding the membership of its State Technical Committees and making other changes that strengthen technical input in conservation programs. The 2018 Farm Bill made several changes to NRCS … Continued