…allowing Hemp to be grown for research purposes and Hemp farms are springing up around the country. Hemp proponents say it is the next big crop, with huge profit potential….
Agri View: Animal Disease
…dipped in or sprayed with 2% sodium hydroxide. Equipment should be disinfected after handling, vaccinating, or testing mink on infected farms. Raccoons and flies may serve as vectors, and their…
Agricultural Imagery and Technology
…airplanes, and Unmanned Aerial Systems (drones) as a way to collect imagery that farmers can leverage to make better business and conservation decisions for their farms. As technology continues to…
NMPF Endorses Creating Tax Incentive Legislation
…farms, but as many as 8,000 farms have the potential to use them. In recent years, federal and state regulators have encouraged the entire agriculture sector to reduce farm nutrient…
Market Match Program Helps Families and Farmers
…last year. Bourque says, he’s hopeful the governor will see the benefit the program has to not only needy families, but also to the state’s family farms. Listen to Market…
2017 Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge
…the U.S. This is the first national business competition focused exclusively on rural entrepreneurs working on food and agriculture businesses. A total of $145,000 in startup funds will be distributed…
Cage Free Egg
…disappearance of any type of caged housing on eggs farms seems as inevitable in the US as it does in Canada, due to a groundswell of commitments from dozens of…
FARMS Students Report on Agriculture
High school students get chance to be agriculture reporters for the day AgNet West and Clovis Grower Matt Efird worked with the FARMS Leadership program to show Central Valley students…
Agri View: Dairy Farming Changes
…the farms to the cities at the turn of the century, it became necessary to mass produce and improve the quality of milk. Significant inventions such as commercial milk bottles,…
Dolcini Tours Farms
…located in Nyssa. The final stop on Dolcini’s trip was southern California where he visited Benson Farms and Sanchez Beekeeping operation in the Imperial Valley. At Benson Farms, Dolcini met…
Drought Alert: Call to Re-examine ‘Harmful Actions’
…Sixteen members of the California House delegation sent a letter to U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker regarding proposed actions by…
New ‘Homegrown’ Blog
…who grows corn, sugar beets and kidney beans, as well as a few other field crops. Read more about Hultgren Farms to see what life as a Minnesota farmer is…
Quiviut
…made from the fluffy undercoat of the musk ox. There are only two farms actively producing qiviut (kiv-ee-utt) in Alaska and none in the rest of the country, but its…
Drought Causing More Losses to California Farmers
…researcher says although California farms “are less parched today than they were a year ago, water remains in short supply.” That leads CoBank to predict California farmers will fallow up…