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Fram to School is a program that help get WA grown or produced food to school and other child nutrition programs.

More hired workers on U.S. farms and ranches than a year ago working for higher wages than a year ago. That’s the finding of the USDA’s recent Farm Labor Report. The Department of Ag said during the week of October 9th- 15th there were 785,000 farm and ranch workers who had been hired directly by farm operators. That is 2%...

New data released by USDA’s Economic Research Service this week shows the number farms nationwide continues to decline slowly.  After peaking at 6.8 million farms in 1935, the number of U.S. farms and ranches fell sharply through the early 1970s.  Rapidly falli...

The number of farms in the U.S. in 2016 fell 8,000 to 2.06 million farms according to USDA’s annual look at farms and farmland.   Joe Parsons with NASS said, “That’s really due to the change in the mixture where we’ve had a decrease in lands and farms and also the number of farms but the number of farms decreased slightly more and that’s consistent with the trend that that we’ve seen across time.

New data from the USDA shows the number of midsized farms is declining.   The USDA Economic Research Service found midsized farms declined by 5% between 1992 and 2012, to about 125,000.  Midsize operations are defined as those with gross cash farm income between $350,000 and $1 million.   USDA ...