…program is made possible through the generous support of CHS Foundation, Farm Credit, Farmers Union Industries Foundation, and the National Farmers Union Foundation. The final program session will be held…
Beet Curly Top Virus Update
Program-wide Notice Tomato infected with curly top viruses: Leaves can be thickened, deformed, yellowed, and rolled upwards. Symptomatic tomato leaves often develop purple veins. (Image courtesy UC-ANR) Beet leafhopper counts…
Scientists Work to Define Threat from Palm Pest
…pesticides, these could include quarantines, control methods, outreach and research. “We have put in a farm-bill request to do a trapping program for exotic palm pests, which would include South…
USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Deputy Under Secretary Alexis Taylor announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will offer a new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands practice specifically tailored…
FSA County Committee Elections to Begin
…election each year. County committee members apply their knowledge and judgment to help FSA make important decisions on its commodity support programs, conservation programs, indemnity and disaster programs, and emergency…
Pesticide Conversations Already Happening with Schools
…knew the potential regulation would look like,” Kern County Agricultural Commissioner Ruben Arroyo said. The program looked to figure out how the reporting and notification system would work. Arroyo said…
Project to Expand Green Business in California
…The funding has supported enhancements in the program’s data system, outreach efforts, and provision of technical assistance and training. Learn more about the Pollution Prevention grant program: https://www.epa.gov/p2/grant-programs-pollution-prevention Learn more…
USDA Seeks Applications for Conservation Innovation Grants
…provide new conservation opportunities through its competitive Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program. Through USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the department will invest up to $25 million for projects that…
Higher Dose of Vitamin D May Benefit Pregnant Women
…findings were published in the November 2016 issue of The Journal of Nutrition. The research team included Charles Stephensen, with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Western Human Nutrition Research Center…
Nominations for Trade Advisory Committees
…developed new markets for rural-made products, including more than 2,700 biobased products through USDA’s BioPreferred program; and invested $64 billion in infrastructure and community facilities to help improve the quality…
Funding to Ensure Access to Needed Veterinary Services
…animals healthy,” said NIFA director Sonny Ramaswamy. “The need for veterinarians in designated shortage areas is urgent. This loan repayment assistance program provides incentives for students to take up rural…
HLB Positive Finds Rise to 30
…Disease Prevention Program (CPDPP) stated the trees were located in a residential backyard where trees had previously been confirmed HLB positive and have been removed. The CPDPP said they worked…
Canada Investigating Bovine Tuberculosis
…program in Canada since 1923. The farmer who owns the ranch the infected animal originated from told the Northern Ag Network this week his herd, along with neighboring herds, would…
Lab System Aims to Protect State’s Livestock
…Food Safety Laboratory System, a program within the University of California School of Veterinary Medicine that serves as the front line for surveillance of emerging animal diseases that could wreak…