…demand for irrigation and fertilizer applications while maintaining desired yield and quality performance; Desirable yield, storability, consumer and other value-added quality traits identified and developed for incorporation in new potato…
State Water Project Allocation Increased
…– 50 percent 2009 – 40 percent 2008 – 35 percent 2007 – 60 percent 2006 – 100 percent DWR’s California Data Exchange Center Web sites show current water conditions…
Funding to Support Agricultural Education at 1890s Land-grant Institutions
…provides outdoor laboratory facilities for veterinary faculty and students. Florida A&M University completed renovations to the Quincy Teleconference Center to better serve the needs of limited-resource audiences in the community…
Test Uses Novel Antibodies to Detect Shiga Toxins
…(STEC). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, STEC bacteria are responsible for more than 265,000 cases of illness and 3,600 hospitalizations each year in the United States….
CRB Researcher Honored with Presidential Award
…(USDA-ARS) at the Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career…
Agri View: Guayule Crop
…yielding, agronomically robust varieties. In partnership with researchers at the USDA-ARS Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona, USDA-ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California, and Cooper Rubber…
Tom Vilsack to Take Helm of U.S. Dairy Export Council
…groups such as the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation to address the needs of its members, which include producers,…
Funding to Foster the Agricultural Science Workforce
…school agriculture curriculum, with more onsite, hands-on activities and demonstrations, including unmanned aerial vehicles and advanced planter technologies. The project also established a Center for Knowledge and Skills to help…
Raising a Child-Where Your Dollars Go
…going toward housing. 29-percent to be exact, from middle-income married couple families. The second biggest expense is food, which as USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Director Angie Tagtow…
River-Flow Plan Moves to Written Comment Stage
…Public Utilities Commission, pointed out its agreements with the Modesto and Turlock Irrigation Districts to share Tuolumne River water, and described the San Francisco agency’s water contracts with communities to…
Almond Board: CASP Workshops on Bee Health
…Irrigation Calculator and Nitrogen Calculator, will be given by representatives of SureHarvest, which manages CASP for Almond Board of California (ABC), along with ABC staff. Workshops run from 9 a.m….
Cost of Raising a Child
…the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion – looks at spending by both two parent and single-parent households at multiple incomes levels. “And also examines spending across various geographic…
Helping Arizona Wheat Growers Maximize Resources
…Arizona wheat producers irrigation and fertilizer practices that maximize yield and grain quality. Bronson and his colleagues grew durum wheat for two years using varying fertilizer and irrigation rates to…
National Chicken Council Calls for Balance between Animal Care, Environmental, Economic Impact in Chicken Production
…year for the chickens to drink (excluding additional irrigation water that would be required to grow the additional feed). Economic Implications If the industry did not produce the additional 1.5…