House Agriculture Committee Highlights Veteran Farmer Contributions to Food Security The House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to examine the opportunities and challenges for veteran farmers and the contributions they…
Funding for Critical Water Research
…has invested in and advanced innovative and transformative initiatives to solve societal challenges and ensure the long-term viability of agriculture. NIFA’s integrated research, education, and extension programs, supporting the best…
Funding Available for Foundational Agricultural Research
…Congress when it established AFRI in the 2008 Farm Bill. Since 2009, NIFA has invested in and advanced innovative and transformative initiatives to solve societal challenges and ensure the long-term…
U.S. Beef Hits South Africa
…began shipping poultry to South Africa earlier this year under the terms of the agreement. As a result, U.S. poultry exports to South Africa totaled almost 12,000 metric tons, worth…
Agri View: Top Agriculture Prize
…generation rise up to meet those challenges by helping its members to develop their own unique talents and explore their interests in a broad range of agricultural career pathways. So…
New Regulations for Groundwater Management
…that each groundwater basin has unique characteristics and challenges. An inherently technical and complex task, managing groundwater requires regulations that can address the goal of sustainability across such a geologically…
People’s Garden
…garden can help unite neighborhoods in a common effort and inspire locally-led solutions to challenges facing our country – from hunger to climate change. USDA Headquarters People’s Garden On Lincoln’s…
Agri View: Weather Losses
…and fishery systems at local, national, and global scales. It will also alter the stability of food supplies and create new food security challenges for the United States as the…
$10 Million in Green Energy Research
…and advanced innovative and transformative initiatives to solve societal challenges and ensure the long-term viability of agriculture. NIFA’s integrated research, education, and extension programs, supporting the best and brightest scientists…
Funding to Relieve Veterinarian Shortages
…2009, NIFA has invested in and advanced innovative and transformative initiatives to solve societal challenges and ensure the long-term viability of agriculture. NIFA’s integrated research, education, and extension programs, supporting…
Strengthen Rural Communities
…country. NIFA invests in and advances agricultural research, education, and extension and seeks to make transformative discoveries that solve societal challenges. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural science,…
Adapting to a Changing Climate
…the face of weather challenges. But climate change posed unknown threats. Last year marked the 19th consecutive year that our annual average temperature was above the 20th century average. One…
Research into Sustainable Crop and Livestock Production Methods
…conditions, food production must increase to meet the demands of a world population projected to pass 9 billion by 2050,” said Vilsack. “Funding in research to respond to these challenges…
USDA Unveils New ‘Urban Agriculture Toolkit’
…technical assistance and financing opportunities. It focuses on some of the most pressing challenges confronting urban producers such as land access, soil quality, water resources, capital and financing, infrastructure, market…