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Economic Research Service

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Name: Economic Research Service

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Food stamps fight and the politics of cruelty

The White House, bless them, if Congress passes the House version of the legislation, which cuts $2 billion a year from the food stamp program, instead of the Senate version, which contains a mere $400 in annual cuts. The White House would prefer, if ... [Published Salon - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Stamp, Economic Research Service, Social Welfare, White House

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

US Department of Agriculture

USA - More ladies getting into farming

More women are getting into farming, according to a recent analysis from the U.S Department of Agriculture.The agency crunched numbers from the Agriculture Census and found that the number of U.S. farms operated by women nearly tripled over the past three ... [Published Meat Trade News Daily - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture, United States

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

The Mystery Of the Ridiculously Pricey Bag Of Potatoes

How much for that bag of potatoes?On Monday we told you about allegations that America's potato growers had banded together in a price-fixing Potato Cartel.The allegations we described come from a civil lawsuit filed by the Associated Wholesale Grocers ... [Published KNAU - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Lawsuit, Allegation, Associated Wholesale Grocers, Agricultural Marketing Service

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Food insecurity affects many here

Access to enough nutritious food to live an active and healthy lifestyle is tough for tens of thousands of eastern Oklahoma residents and could get even tougher.Food insecurity impacts 18.3 percent of the 70,600 people who live in Muskogee County, and ... [Published Muskogee Phoenix - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Doug Walton, Economic Research Service, Oklahoma (United States)

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Farm bill sends plenty of pork to the wealthy and well connected

It takes some doing to design a government program that harms the environment, fleeces taxpayers and consumers, and shovels money to some of the nation’s wealthiest families and corporations.The nearly $1 trillion farm bill — yes, trillion — that has ... [Published Daily Caller - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Sugar Prices, Shoveler, Agriculture, Erosion

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Recent Report Shows RFS Does not Increase Food Prices

A recent study released by ABF Economics found no direct correlation between federal biofuels mandates and increasing food prices. National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson says the report is an example of yet another study that confirms biofuels ... [Published KRVN 880 Rural Radio - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Food Prices, Biofuels, Economic Research Service

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Economic Research Service

Adapting to climate change and drought risk

Economists working on climate change spend a lot of time trying to predict how farmers are going to adapt. Without knowing how farmers will react to higher average temperatures or different rainfall patterns, we cannot accurately say what climate change ... [Published CattleNetwork.com - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Drought, Economic Research Service, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Taxpayers spend $41.3 million ina year to advertise food stamps, a6-fold increase over last decade

Spending on advertising and outreach for food stamps has increased six-fold since 2000 â reaching $41.3 million in 2011, according to a new GOP report. According to calculations released by Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions Budget Committee staff, ... [Published Lucianne.com - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Stamp, Economic Research Service, Jeff Sessions

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 2 reports

USDA report: Why are Americans drinking less milk?

A new research report from the Economic Research Service of the USDA seeks to understand why most Americans do not consume enough dairy products. Even though cheese consumption is rising, the report said per capita dairy consumption has remained steady ... [Published Progressive Dairy - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Coffee

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 2 reports

USDA Issues Report On "Milk Consumption"

Economic Research Service (ERS) reports:To view complete report, click here.Americans consumed progressively less fluid milk, on average, for over six decades. Since at least the 1970s, differences in intake frequency between older and younger generations ... [Published Agri Marketing - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 2 reports

CME: Outlook for Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Unchanged

US - Amid the lively debate over the sale of Smithfield Foods to Shuanghui Holdings and its impact on US pork exports, USDA’s Economic Research Service and Foreign Agricultural Service issued their quarterly Outlook for US Agricultural Trade, write Steve ... [Published The Cattle Site - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: US Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Japan, Trade Balance

First reported Jun 01 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 3 reports

Meat prices rise due to lack of cattle, rain

(St. Cloud Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --That sizzling steak or juicy hamburger on the grill will cost more this summer as beef prices are hitting record highs.Nationally, steak averages $4.81 a pound at the store and ground ... [Published TradingCharts.com - Jun 01 2013]

Entities: Cattle, Sauk Rapids (United States), Drought, Vegetables, Ethanol

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And he says that if someone wants to start raising livestock or vegetables to sell, it makes sense to start very small. "It's much easier to enter at the lower end of the market than the higher end" he says

USA - More ladies getting into farming [Published Meat Trade News Daily - 11 hours ago]

"As a result of these efforts, by the summer of 2008, according to the Idaho Potato Commission, a ten pound bag of potatoes cost consumers $15 — up $6 over 2007."

The Mystery Of the Ridiculously Pricey Bag Of Potatoes [Published KNAU - 15 hours ago]

"Passage of the 2013 Farm Bill by the U S Senate moves us one step closer to the reforms we need to address the changing needs of U S Agriculture and the citizens we serve,” said Tim McGreevy, CEO of the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council.“The American Pulse Association and the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council are especially pleased that the Senate bill includes the establishment of the Pulse Health Initiative (PHI) in the research title and the School Pulse Food Pilot (SPFP) program in the nutrition title. Passage of these two measures sends a message that the U S Senate is serious about finding solutions to the Obesity, Global Food Security and Sustainability issues facing this nation and the global community."

Cantwell hails Senate passage of Farm Bill [Published Spokane Valley Online - Jun 17 2013]

"Record-high energy prices and expanding biofuel policies have substantially increased the demand for agricultural products as renewable fuel feedstocks since the mid-2000s. As of 2012, corn-based ethanol and soybean-based biodiesel supplied almost 6% of U S transportation fuels, consuming 42% and 1% of U S corn and soybean production, respectively" the report found

Report Finds Farmers Responding to Changing Energy Economy [Published Ohio Farmer - Jun 14 2013]

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Biofuels dont raise food prices says US study [Published Farm Business - Jun 14 2013]
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Adapting to climate change and drought risk [Published CattleNetwork.com - Jun 12 2013]
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No More Milk? Consumption is on a Decline [Published Food Product Design - Jun 07 2013]
Beef Prices Keep Climbing Other Food Prices Mor... [Published Big News Network - Jun 06 2013]
Agribiz: Broiler production on the increase [Published Gainesville Times - Jun 06 2013]
Baltimore battles "food deserts" [Published American City & County - Jun 06 2013]

Blogs

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Farm Bill Full of Subsidies for Politicians and... [Published Breitbart Feed - Jun 03 2013] Congress will soon begin consideration of the renewal of the Farm Bill , which has been portrayed by big government politicians and lobbyists as a critical “safety net” for struggling small farmers. According to the Heritage Foundation , however, ...
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Agricultural Productivity Will Rise to the Chal... [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 30 2013] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Image: Dan Saelinger; Stylist: Dominique Baynes; Food Stylist: Carol Ladd “Despite the global food crisis of 2007–8, the coming famine hasn’t happened yet. It is a looming planetary emergency…it is arriving ...
Extreme Drought is Extremely Expensive for U.S.... [Published Switchboard, from NRDC - Apr 25 2013] Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. This blog was written by Andy Stevenson , NRDC Finance Advisor and Dan Lashof. It first appeared in LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . Texas’ reputation as a small government, ...
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Press Releases

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