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Energy Advisor Says a Host of Factors Affect Food Prices

November 30, 2012 Sarah Bittleman, senior energy advisor to Secretary Vilsack

Rob Green’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed “The cause of higher grocery bills isn’t the drought. It’s the failed federal ethanol policy” fails to take into consideration a host of factors, other than demand for corn, that affect food prices. In the domestic and global markets commodity, labor...

Energy

USDA's 2013 Agricultural Outlook Forum - Feb. 21-22, 2013

November 29, 2012 Brenda Chapin, Information Officer, Office of the Chief Economist

USDA’s 2013 Agricultural Outlook Forum, “Managing Risk in the 21st Century,” will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, on Feb. 21-23. Speakers will include USDA policymakers and 85 distinguished experts in the fields of international trade, insurance, forestry...

Conservation Energy Food and Nutrition Health and Safety Forestry Trade

Enhanced and Updated USDA Energy Website Makes Information Easy to Access

November 07, 2012 Harry Baumes, Ph.D., Director of the USDA Office of Energy Policy and New Uses

In January 2012, USDA launched its brand new Energy Web site. The site contains agricultural, economic, and social data on renewable energy to assist stakeholders, public users, state and local government in identifying opportunities, activities and USDA’s projects in renewable energy. The Energy...

Energy