It’s a life of high risk and high reward. Dairy farmers face their share of challenges, including a volatile market and unpredictable input costs — however, there are young people…
USDA/NIFA Needs Stakeholder Input on Food, Agriculture Priorities
…extension to solve societal challenges. NIFA’s investments in transformative science directly support the long-term prosperity and global preeminence of U.S. agriculture. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural sciences,…
ROXY Rice Unveiled at Rice Field Day
…developed by the Rice Experiment Station, specifically the Director, Kent McKenzie,” Brim-DeForest stated. Researchers are pleased with how the variety is coming along, but there are still some challenges that…
Funding to Recruit and Educate a More Diverse Agricultural Workforce
…education, and extension to solve societal challenges. NIFA’s investments in transformative science directly support the long-term prosperity and global preeminence of U.S. agriculture. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on…
NIFA Support for Food and Agricultural National Needs Fellowship Grants Program
…along with technical knowledge in the food and agricultural disciplines so they can address the emerging agricultural challenges of the 21st century.” The National Needs Fellowship Grants Program seeks to…
Funding to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals
…“NIFA support for these predoctoral and postdoctoral candidates is helping foster an inclusive arena and cultivate future agricultural science leaders who can solve future food challenges.” AFRI is America’s flagship…
NIFA Invests $35 Million in Specialty Crop Research
…on these projects is available on the NIFA website. NIFA’s mission is to invest in and advance agricultural research, education, and extension that solve societal challenges. NIFA’s investments in transformative…
Fresno County 2016 Crop Report Shows Drought, Market Impacts
…the San Joaquin Valley, the successes and challenges reflected in this report impact all residents directly,” said FCFB CEO Ryan Jacobsen. One of the features of the report is listing…
Improving Livestock Digestion with GMO Clover
…to alfalfa. More data will need to be collected before the best method of use for the technology can be established to effectively improve livestock digestion. One of the challenges…
GAO Estimates 200,000 Wild Horses Roaming on Federal Lands
…there could be as many as 9.2 million domesticated horses, burros, and mules in the United States. The GAO says there are several challenges in managing the wild herd, including…
Western View: The Right to Not Farm
…challenges the requirement as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, because it unconstitutionally deprives Willie of his liberty to engage in the career of his choosing. The…
Cotton Board Holds Annual Meeting
…the Cotton Research and Promotion Program. Producers are facing significant challenges this marketing year, and the Program is responding with initiatives intended to help margins in the short-term while staying…
Congress Returns Next Month Facing Challenges
Congress returns next month and immediately faces huge spending and debt ceiling challenges, before other politically important measures like tax reform and the farm bill. House and Senate appropriators have…
EPA Administrator Asks Cattlemen to Submit WOTUS Comments
…after the Obama-era WOTUS is repealed. “We’re trying to fix the challenges from the 2015 rule, where the Obama Administration re-imagined their authority under the Clean Water Act and defined…