…additional children access to more nutritious meals by providing schools with the funds to purchase additional equipment to help them meet updated national nutrition standards, and serve healthy meals with…
Syngenta, ChemChina Deal Looks Imminent
…maintaining the highest governance standards with a view to an IPO of the business in the years to come. Michel Demaré, Chairman of Syngenta, said: “In making this offer, ChemChina…
Agri View: Agriculture Future
…create new opportunities for a steady flow of young people. “We’ve got a quarter of the population that will be migrating out in the next number of years, so it’s…
Almond Board: New Incentive to Reduce Dust
…state failing to meet federal ambient air quality standards for one or more air pollutants. The new cleaner harvest technology joins a list of other on-farm air quality options for…
Agri View: GMO Questions
…harmonize national standards with Codex standards. If trading partners have the same or similar mechanisms for the safety assessment of GM foods, the possibility that one product is approved in…
Agri View: Organic Food Scammers
…grown to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic food before it gets to your local…
American Farm Bureau Expresses Support for Senate Child Nutrition Legislation Goals
…support for provisions allowing schools to transition to the program standards under the hardship exemption and emphasized support for the “Buy American” provision of the federal school lunch program. Read…
Agri View: Bad Economic Year
…jobs that ultimately generate more cash flow in rural economies and support local businesses on main street. “Thanks to its ability to remain competitive through thick and thin, American agriculture…
Runoff Forecasts Encouraging for Western US
…Forecasts USDA’s first Western Spring & Summer stream flow forecast for 2016 is out and according to meteorologist Brad Rippey, “That kind of reiterate the fact we had this great…
New Air Quality Incentives for Nut Farmers to Adopt Low-Emission Harvesters
…federal ambient air quality standards for one or more air pollutants. The new cleaner harvest technology joins a list of other on-farm air quality options for which NRCS provides technical…
World Ag Expo to Feature Harden, Ross, and Kinoshita on Panel
…She began her Tulare County career working in pesticide use enforcement, and then served as a standards and quarantine inspector before becoming the department’s Dinuba District Inspector in 1999. Now…
Peanut Butter and Caffeine
…requesting to determine whether the product meets applicable scientific and legal standards for lawful sale in the U.S. The agency remains concerned about the increasing number of products on the…
Agri View: Water Management
…of the quantity of water applied to the field (for a particular crop) via an on-farm irrigation application system—e.g., a gravity-flow system or a low-pressure center-pivot sprinkler system. Annual crop…
Newly Identified Enzyme May Be the Culprit in Pierce’s Disease Grapevine Damage
…the xylem, preventing the flow of water to the leaves. That theory seemed to explain the yellowing of the leaf edges and eventual death of the leaf tissue. But not…