…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…
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…
Proposed Tax Regulation a Threat to Future Cattle Farms
…from one generation to the next.” The proposed regulations under Section 2704 will have a profoundly negative impact on the business climate for farmers and ranchers, ultimately dis-incentivizing a new…
Agri View: Food Production Impact
…fungicide use. And ending all GMO production. Now you just think how that would change the climate. And how healthy our environment would be. Then he began to show how…
Stink Bug Could Infest by the Tens of Thousands
…Mediterranean climate of the major agriculture areas. “We don’t know if it can survive in these hot, dry summers here in the Central Valley,” he said. “We do know it’s…
CA State Plan: Make Water Conservation A Way of Life
…climate, landscape, and demographic conditions. “Californians rose to the challenge during this historic drought and recognized that conservation is critical in the face of an uncertain future. This plan is…
Farmers and Ranchers to Protect Working Grasslands
…up to address the growing impacts of a changing climate. With USDA’s support, they work to implement voluntary practices that improve air and water quality, prevent soil erosion and create…
Agriculture Education Helping Grow the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
…water availability issues, increase food production, find new sources of energy, mitigate climate variability, and ensure food safety. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural science, visit www.nifa.usda.gov/impacts, sign…
Research to Support Healthy Agroecosystems
…of the Agricultural and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). “Population growth, along with environmental factors, including the growing threat of climate change, are putting increasing demand on the land, water, and…
CDFA SWEEP Program Awards 167 Projects
…changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, grow food with the most efficient use of water and help address our changing climate.” The 2016 SWEEP funding arises from Budget Act of…