With an increasing role of tropical forests supporting a range of ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, water regulation, soil conservatio...

The European Union (EU) is one of the United States' chief agricultural trading partners but also a major competitor in world markets. Both the Uni...

The United States is the undisputed world leader in agricultural production today, but as we look out across the 21st century, agriculture faces a ...

The 2014 Farm Bill makes significant changes to the structure of U.S. dairy support programs, including the elimination of several major price and ...

Most U.S. farms are family operations, and even the largest farms are predominantly family-run. Small farms are less profitable than larger farms, ...

Farm businesses' debt-use decisions can affect their growth and survival, as well as the economic vitality of farm-dependent rural communities. Thu...

Limited-resource and socially disadvantaged farmers make up as much as 40 percent of all U.S. farms. Some federal conservation programs contain pro...

Smaller niche-market food producers have good reason to be optimistic in today's marketplace. Increased demand for specialty food products, and con...

This book explores the U.S. forest service plans for responding to climate change. The mission of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agricultur...

Dietary Guidelines, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, are intended to help consume...

Grasslands provide both ecological and economic benefits. The importance of grasslands lies not only in the areas they cover, but also in the diver...

This book explores the structure and function of the U.S. nutrition research system, with an emphasis on trends in Federal support. It describes ho...

Rice, an ancient grain, is the primary staple for more than half the world's population, through its role in the diets of billions of low-income, f...

About 717,000 farms in the U.S. went out of business, or exited, between 1992 and 1997, but the total number of farms declined by just 13,400 becau...

This book on agriculture issues in the United States identifies the trends of agricultural trade, examines the commodity composition of agricultura...

U.S. agricultural trade generates employment, income and purchasing power in both the farm and non-farm sectors. This new book examines past trends...

The United States and the European Union (EU) have engaged in a long-standing and acrimonious trade dispute over the EU's decision to ban hormone-t...

U.S. Agriculture is also changing rapidly from a sector characterised by production of undifferentiated bulk commodities sold in spot markets to on...

Organic farming is a system approach utilizing the natural cycles and biological interactions for crop production and protection. It aims at harmon...

The vine is one of the oldest plants on the planet, whose remotes fossils date back more than 120 million years ago. It has been part of human civi...

Globally, wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in human food. This book presents current research in the genetics, crop and food produc...

"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...

Farms and ranches operated by women have more than doubled in the last 30 years. Since 1978, the first year the Census of Agriculture collected dat...

A complete guide to sustainable, small-scale forest development for people who own a woodlot of one tree or many. Using recognized forestry princip...

Maize is one of the moist important cereals for humanity. It is grown for grain and forage, which could be used for food, feed and industry process...

Zea mays L. is a potential producer of cereal crops and the dominant primary energy source of feed for monogastric animals, such as poultry. The fi...