Alliance for Sustainable Ag Production Improves Quality of Life
Program helps Mississippians grow and market healthy food.
Program helps Mississippians grow and market healthy food.
Four brothers run dairy goat operation at the family farm in Brandon.
Crop dusting techniques help Mississippi farmers with efficiency and crop production.
Mississippi’s Calhoun County specialty crop of sweet potatoes contributes to the agriculture economy.
Specialty crops allow state farmers to create new markets.
Certified Farmers Market program encourages consumers to eat local and healthy.
Annual horse shows add significant value to the state’s economy.
Junior livestock events set new Mississippi records in 2012.
From nationally ranked exports to top crops including corn, soybeans and tobacco, to a major impact on tourism, Kentucky’s varied agriculture industry is a big player in the state’s economy
Kentucky’s annual State Fair in Louisville’s agriculture competitions and livestock shows combine fun, education and agriculture
Find agriculture events happening around Georgia in 2012 and 2013.
Georgia’s largest agricultural segment, poultry, is utilizing modern day technology to improve the industry.
Filmmaker Andrew Beck explores the agriculture industry and why food matters in Alabama in his documentary, “Eating Alabama.”
While shopping in my neighborhood Publix, I noticed something unique below the Publix brand mushrooms: a photo and story about the mushroom farmers.
Agriculture is one of the United States’ most important industries, employing 17 percent of the country’s total work force. Here are fun facts and statistics about U.S. agriculture.
To keep up with projected population growth, more food will have to be produced in the next 50 years as the past 10,000 years combined. Find out more about the efforts of today’s United States farmers.
U.S. farmers in more than 30 states grow soybeans, making soybeans the country’s top value crop export. Find out more soybean facts and stats.
An overview of Alabama’s top agriculture commodities including poultry, greenhouse and nursery, cattle and calves, soybeans and cotton.
Alabama’s 22 million acres of commercial forests help the state’s economy stand tall. The state’s forests are the nation’s second-largest timberland and each year supply $12 billion worth of wood and paper products for countless industries.
There are 7 billion people in the world today, and by 2050, the world will have more than 9 billion. The agriculture industry including Alabama ag leaders are trying to determine the role they can play in feeding and sheltering them all.
Alabama catfish production and processing have a combined economic impact of around $500 million annually, not including feed sales and service providers.
The greenhouse and nursery industry contributes $2.9 billion to Alabama’s economy each year.
Alabama farmers have implemented a crop rotation system as a way to improve their soil, increase their cotton yields and provide an alternative cash crop. By alternating cotton with peanuts or other soil-enriching legumes, such as sweet potatoes or soybeans, cotton crops have improved.
The poultry industry contributes more than $10 billion to Alabama’s economy and is the leading agricultural revenue segment for the state. Alabama ranks third nationally in broiler production and 14th in eggs.

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