It's estimated that U.S. agriculture needs to hire between 1.5 to 2 million workers each year but the industry struggles to fill these positions. In 2019, before the COVID outbreak, 56% of California farmers reported being unable to find the workers they needed over the last five years. Employers have little luck [...]
The Land Report is a magazine that tracks major land transactions and produces an annual list of the 100 biggest US landowners. The magazine took interest in a 2018 $171 million sale of 14,500 acres of farmland in Washington State to an LLC associated with Angelina Agriculture Co. of Monterey, LA. When [...]
Specialty crops are grown specifically for direct consumption, medicine or aesthetics (e.g., flowers, trees, and shrubs). The USDA defines specialty crops as, “fruit and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture and nursery crops but most Americans would be familiar with specialty crops as fruits, nuts and vegetables. Specialty crops do not have [...]
Vertical farming is a form of agriculture that grows plants indoors in floor-to-ceiling on tower-like walls of plant-holding cells. In place of sunlight these plants grow under LED lights in temperature controlled indoor environments that leverage cutting-edge technology. Crops grown in a vertical farm facility do not need soil as typically their roots [...]
Consumer shopping and dining-out practices continue to be shaped by the Coronovirus pandemic which first appeared in early 2020. According to a study by FMI, three quarters of U.S. consumers have changed their meat purchasing behavior during the pandemic with online meat orders rising over 95% during 2020. Some of this change [...]
Every 5 years the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service conducts The Census of Agriculture. The census provides comprehensive, nationwide agricultural data and includes a complete count of US farms and ranches in the United States.The last complete census was the 2017 Census of Agriculture and the next census will take place in [...]