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Understanding Farms in the United States
A family stands in a plot of tall grass plantings on a farm in central Iowa. NRCS photo. This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase...
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Windham County, Vermont Tropical Storm Irene Farm Recovery Tour with...
Last week, we welcomed Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan to Vermont as she toured farms to see recovery efforts after Tropical Storm Irene. Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan...
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Digitizing Our Agricultural History; 77 Years of Annual Statistics Now Online
Agricultural Statistics has a long history of publication and is an important archive for researchers to study the history of U.S. farming. This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on...
View ArticleRenewable Energy on Farms Study Released – First to Look at Role of...
USDA has published a study examining states’ adoption rates of distributed generation for solar and wind energy on U.S. farms. The results show that states with higher energy prices, more organic acres...
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A Small Business Dream Built on a Farmers Market
My mom raised five kids, taught high school chemistry for 15 years and then retired back to the family farm in 1986. Her new life on the farm depended on the Salisbury, MD farmers market where she sold...
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COMET-Farm™: Conservation Calculation
Healthy soil captures and stores carbon. Photo by Ron Nichols, NRCS USDA’s new online carbon-capture calculator, COMET-Farm™, has nothing to do with comets. This tool is all about farms and their...
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Maryland: America in Miniature
Maryland isn’t chicken to talk about its agriculture – it ranks 8th in broilers sold in the USA. Check back next Thursday as we spotlight another state’s results from the 2012 Census of Agriculture....
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South Carolina Agriculture – Nothing Could Be Finer
No matter which came first, poultry and eggs aren’t chicken feed for South Carolina. With more than a billion in sales, that a lot of scratch. Check in next Thursday for more results from the 2012...
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In Conversation with #WomeninAg: Jennie London
Jennie London at Sostenga Farm, which she managed in Española, New Mexico for two years. As we look towards the Holiday season, here at USDA, we would like to give thanks to all of our farmers and...
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America’s Diverse Family Farms
America’s Diverse Family Farms report categorizes farms based on annual revenue, operator’s primary occupation, and the family/nonfamily ownership of the farm. Describing the structure of the U.S. farm...
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