…agroecosystem projects include a research and education initiative by North Carolina State University that investigated how farming practices such as tillage, pesticide and fertilizer use can affect beneficial soil organisms…
Changes to Improve the Prevented Planting Program
…actions taken to ready the field, pesticide, labor, and repairs. The prevented planting factor is a percentage of the individual insurance guarantee and varies by crop, based on an estimate…
Ranchers Collaborate with UC Researchers
…economic loss suffered from aborted calves.” While Talbot was attending the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis in the 1970s, his father purchased some cattle to breed in the…
U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions
…grocery stores and restaurants; institutional sources like school cafeterias; and industrial sources like factory lunchrooms. USDA’s Economic Research Service estimates that the amount of food that went uneaten at the…
Environmental Education Grants to Conservation Organizations in California
…water-related training that will enable them to teach lessons in schools and communities. Overall, over 12,000 students and 650 teachers at 44 SFUSD elementary and K-8 schools will participate in…
Safer, More Effective Pest Management
…and environmentally friendly pest management alternatives to transition from this older pesticide. The National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN) is a nationwide group of diagnostic laboratories that collaborate on early detection,…
NFU Backs American Food for American Schools Legislation
Recognizing the need to improve sourcing of American-grown food products by U.S. schools, National Farmers Union (NFU) applauded the introduction of the “American Food for American Schools Act of 2016.”…
Schools partner to Share Love of Ag Education
by Jennifer Ray, California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom California public school students learning about agriculture through an activity called “Solution Soup,” which also teaches children how to convert…
EPA Approves Some Dicamba-Based Herbicides
…pesticide use with the potential for harming threatened animal and plant species. Monsanto says the Xtend product platform will be its largest technology launch in history. The company expects that…
Pesticide Data Program Summary Released
…and adverse health effects are unlikely. The pesticide data USDA publishes each year provide regulators, farmers, processors, manufacturers, consumers and scientists with important insights into the actual levels of pesticide…
The Western View: Big Data Part 2
…track water, fertilizer or pesticide applications, or any other changing condition. The smart use of the right devices creates a thorough understanding of a specific plot of land, the condition…
States Join Dow-DuPont Merger Probe
…complicate what are already expected to be tough and lengthy reviews by U.S. antitrust enforcers. The states are concerned that the companies may raise pesticide and herbicide prices for farmers…
Food and Ag Science Will Shape Our Future
…For our part, USDA researchers are taking a hard look at the causes behind the stressors impacting pollinator populations, such as mites, bacteria pesticides and management practices, and are using…
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…