…that is provided includes helping farmers with the application process such as developing a project design, estimating the benefits of proposals and submitting applications. After projects are awarded, technical assistance…
State Officials Move to Circumvent Federal Plans for California Water
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released its draft Environmental Impact Report for the long-term operations of the State Water Project (SWP). The announcement was made at the…
Farm City Newsday Tuesday, 11-19-19
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today’s show is filled with stories covering a project to empower women farm operators, the second…
Sterile NOW Project Sees Major Improvement
Courtesy USDA/APHIS A project looking at using sterilizing methods to control navel orangeworm populations is seeing some uplifting improvements after a few tweaks. Research is testing the sterilization of male NOW…
Officials Praise New Biological Opinions for the SWP and CVP
…new documents relate to salmon, Delta smelt and other native fish species that are affected by the management of the State Water Project (SWP), as well as the Central Valley…
Western View: Green Energy’s Dirty Little Secret
Windstar Energy 120 Megawatt wind farm construction project, June 2011 With all the talk of agriculture contributing mightily to global warming with greenhouse gas emissions, the environmental movement is ignoring…
Livestock Groups Call Attention to Judicial Activism in Sage Grouse Case
…2015 plans. In April, Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians, Center for Biological Diversity, and Prairie Hills Audubon Society filed suit against the BLM and moved for preliminary injunction. Today, Judge…
Preventing Horn Growth in Dairy Cows Through Genome Editing
…of the research article, Alison Van Eenennaam noted that the project has been an interesting implementation of genetic modification. The intended result of the research is to ultimately improve the…
NIFA Grant Helps Guide Future Organic Research
…process up updating OSA’s State of Organic Seed (SOS) project, as well as the OFRF’s 2016 National Organic Research Agenda (NORA) report. Through collaboration, the OFRF and the OSA will…
Shasta Dam Project Hits Another Roadblock
…Shasta dam project for several years along with the Bureau of Reclamation. The proposed project would raise Shasta dam another 18.5 feet to increase storage capacity by an additional 634,000…
Bailey Appointed to USDA Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
…Natural Resources, Bailey was the Mendo-Lake Food Hub project manager for North Coast Opportunities, where he developed a regional food hub with an integrated training, marketing and distribution system that…
Farm City Newsday Tuesday, 10-08-19
…the Fence Line event preparing you for unwanted protest, the Shasta Dam Project that might be in jeopardy and why summer months mean less time for cover crops to grow….
Scientists Release First Map of Areas Suitable for Spotted Lanternfly Establishment in U.S. and World
…Fruit and Vegetable Research Unit in Wapato, Washington, who led the project. “Earlier attempts to predict the spread of the spotted lanternfly using a less sophisticated model had indicated a potential…
USDA Invests $11M In Research That Will Support Specialty Crop Farmers
…financially during the growing season.” This investment is made through the Minor Crop Pest Management Program (known as the Interregional Research Project, IR-4). The IR-4 program enables crop protection technology…