productivity

The American Lamb Board is working with the American sheep industry to create a new task force of industry stakeholders and research and extension specialists to develop a sheep sustainability report.  The report will represent the sheep industry’s commitment to sustainability and the industry’s existing practices and goals for continuous improvement in animal care, environmental stewardship, soci

Global agricultural productivity growth is in steep decline, and current efforts to expand sustainable agriculture production to feed a growing global population are inadequate to deal with the challenges that the world faces, that according to the 2022 Global Agricultural Productivity Report, produced by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech.  ...

According to data from USDA’s Economic Research Service, total factor productivity growth for agriculture, the rate of technology and efficiency programs being used in Ag, varies across countries. The data measures the amount of agricultural output produced from the combined set of land, labor, capital, and material resources employed in the production process. Str ...

Last week, Virginia Tech released an annual report that indicates the agriculture industry is behind the needed pace to meet the world’s food needs in the year 2050. The 2021 Global Agricultural Productivity Report said global productivity growth needs to accelerate at all production scales to meet consumers’ needs and address the current and future threats to human and environmental well-being.

An annual report from Virginia Tech University shows agriculture is behind the pace of meeting the productivity needs of 2050. The 2021 Global Agricultural Productivity Report urges the acceleration of productivity growth at all production scales to meet consumers' needs and address human and environmental well-being threats ...

Researchers at Washington State University are looking at the potential biochar holds for farming communities and timber communities alike. Biochar is woody materials and forest residues converted into an amendment used to improve soil productivity ...

During last week’s hearing on climate change and the agriculture sector, Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall spoke about how farmers and ranchers are already making an impact, as agriculture accounts for just 10% of greenhouse gasses emitted in the United States. All ...

Healthy, productive cows. That’s the ultimate goal for any livestock operation, especially for dairy farmers, where markets can be unpredictable and margins tight. Miles Ramsay takes a look at how genomic technology is advancing the dairy industry today, and how producers can select the best cows to meet their breeding and profitability goals. ...