The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced $2.4 million in available funding to relieve veterinarian shortage situations through education, extension and training as…
People’s Gardens Across Government
…can more effectively exchange ideas about how to engage thousands of employees and improve employee health and wellness in the workplace. For 21 years my agency, the Agricultural Marketing Service,…
Veteran’s Vision
…to farming for our veterans and service-members is much needed. Soldier Agricultural Vocational Education, or S.A.V.E farm, will bridge the gap providing a home-like training center where they can learn…
Citrus Industry This Week: HLB Funding and Research; CEU Article
Today’s issue of Citrus Industry This Week from Florida includes information on the latest HLB research funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as an opportunity to earn…
Therapy for Veterans
…agriculture. Research has shown over and over again the positive impact of active involvement with the natural world, including working with gardens and animals. Additionally, learning to grow ones own…
Fighting Drought With Soil
A team of University of California scientists recently received a $1.69 million grant to use several UC agricultural research stations to study an often overlooked tool to fight the drought:…
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,…
ABC Expands Elementary Educational Program
…activity book, which insert the teaching of agriculture — specifically almonds — into the classroom. “California is the number one agricultural-producing state, with 80% of the world’s almonds grown here,”…
Research into Sustainable Crop and Livestock Production Methods
…Agriculture (USDA) awarded $16.5 million in grants to support research into methods for boosting agriculture productivity and ensuring food security in the face of pests, diseases and a changing climate….
USDA Unveils New ‘Urban Agriculture Toolkit’
Online Resource Draws on USDA’s and Partners’ Experience with Launching and Sustaining Urban Agriculture Operations Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled theUSDA Urban Agriculture Toolkit, a new resource created by USDA’s…
Antimicrobial Resistance Research
…(AMR). This funding is available through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, and administered by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)….
Latest Push To Combat Citrus Greening
Researchers studying ways to address citrus greening will soon have more support in their efforts through USDA funding availability. Rod Bain has the story. Latest Push To Combat Citrus Greening…
Biofuels and Bioproducts
…at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in a program funded in part by BETO. Since then, BETO has competitively awarded additional funding to Lygos through the Small Business Vouchers Pilot, an…
Benefits of SWEEP Program
…an encore presentation of the Growing California video, “Strawberry Fields…Forever,” a look at a grower utilizing SWEEP as well assistance from CDFA’s Fertilizer Research Education Program (FREP). Sakakihara Farms, strawberry…