…of getting grower feedback. From Yara International: Yara promotes climate smart agriculture on the global agenda, and we address all three elements of climate smart agriculture with research and concrete…
Monsanto Shareholders Approve Merger with Bayer
…vision, we can do even more together to benefit growers around the world and to help address broad global challenges like climate change and food scarcity.” “The acquisition of Monsanto…
Funding for Food, Energy, and Water Systems Research
…research partnership between NIFA and the National Science Foundation (NSF). “Our food, energy and water systems are taxed by numerous challenges, from climate change to food waste, to disconnected policies…
Funding for Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research
…user-inspired, groundbreaking discoveries that are combating childhood obesity, improving and sustaining rural economic growth, addressing water availability issues, increasing food production, finding new sources of energy, mitigating climate variability and…
Lukewarm Reaction to Pruitt, EPA Chief Nominee
…rubber-stamp Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma Attorney General Trump has nominated to take over as Chief of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt isn’t a believer in climate change and isn’t a…
EPA Nominee Opposes RFS, WOTUS
…the legal and scientific basis for the Obama administration to attack climate change, saying, “Scientists continue to disagree about the extent of climate change and its connection to the actions…
Incentives for Conservation Reserve Program Participants
…ranchers and landowners have willingly stepped up to address the growing impacts of a changing climate. With USDA’s support, they are working to implement voluntary practices that improve air and…
Meeting Growing Demand for Organic Products
…mitigation, and biodiversity. Improving technologies, methods, model development and other metrics to document, describe and optimize the environmental services and climate change mitigation ability of organic farming systems. Developing cultural…
Ross Updates Almond Industry on Focus
California Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross updated the almond industry on the governor’s agriculture projects and focus moving into next year. Ross said fiscal stability and climate change continue to be…
Agri View: Smart Shoppers
Everett Griner talks about smart shoppers buying food like WIC shoppers in today’s Agri View. Smart Shoppers What’s most important for people when shopping for food? For most people its…
Conservation Opportunities to Improve Water Quality
…and tended to privately, and America’s farmers, ranchers and landowners have willingly stepped up to address the growing impacts of a changing climate. With USDA’s support, they are working to…
Funding for Robotic Research
…childhood obesity, improve and sustain rural economic growth, address water availability issues, increase food production, find new sources of energy, mitigate climate variability, and ensure food safety. To learn more…
World Soil Day: Celebrating the Magic Beneath
…rolling out its very own Healthy Soils Program, financed as part of the California Climate Investments funded with Cap-and-Trade funds. The Healthy Soils Program recognizes the climate change benefits of…
Edible Plants You Re-Grow
…from many fruits can be replanted, though often they will grow into trees, which may or many not eventually bear fruit, depending on climate, pollination, and location. So why not…