INEDA will be hosting a FREE “How to Avoid Email Scams” webinar in partnership with Pratum, an information security and cybersecurity services consulting firm, on July 25th at 2:00 p.m. The focus of this interactive 45-minute webinar will be educating dealers and employees on email threats and best practices for prevention. [Register]
Move puts ERS, NIFA closer to customers, expected to save nearly $300 million nominally (Washington, D.C., June 13, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will relocate the Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to the Kansas City Region. “Following… Read More »
Deere (NYSE:DE) is looking to extend more credit to African farmers who have traditionally made purchases in cash amid a “dramatic shift” in mechanization as the continent seeks to boost food production. The company lends as much as $70M to individual African farmers, said Antois van der Westhuizen, financial director for sub-Saharan Africa. “The more we finance,… Read More »
The Census of Agriculture is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Even small plots of land – whether rural or urban – growing fruit, vegetables or some food animals count if $1,000 or more of such products were raised and sold, or normally would have been sold,… Read More »
(Washington, D.C., May 3, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the finalists of 136 Expressions of Interest received from parties in 35 states vying to become the new homes of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). “This short list of locations took… Read More »