…commitment to mitigating climate change and promoting a clean-energy economy. This month, the Department is examining what a changing climate means to agriculture and how USDA is working to reduce…
Agri View: Pollinators Habitat
Everett Griner talks about the affect climate change is having on pollinators and their habitat in today’s Agri View. Pollinators Habitat From: Beependent Bee Informed! Learn about the current issues…
Milk-for-Cheese Pricing Formula Adjustment
…Producers will receive an increase in payments from processors, estimated at an average of 96 cents per hundredweight (100 pounds) over a five-year period. This change is not expected to…
Study Reaffirms GMO Safety
…small changes in plant characteristics, will be critical to detecting unintended changes in new crop varieties. The committee used evidence accumulated over the past two decades to assess purported negative…
Sustainable Groundwater Management Plans Approved by CWC
…to sustainably manage groundwater,” said DWR Director Mark Cowin. “These regulations will help communities bring aquifers into balance and prepare for a changing climate and future droughts.” Groundwater is vital…
Funding for Bioeconomy Research and Development
…at the pump, bolstering national security by relying less on foreign oil, and combatting climate change with investments in technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide for cleaner air,”…
Food Waste Goals
…our everyday trash, about 21 percent of the waste stream. Reducing food waste will help the United States address climate change, as 20 percent of total U.S. methane emissions come…
Funding for Critical Water Research
…work to mitigate climate change can be found in the Department’s most recent entry on Medium, How Food and Forestry Are Adapting to a Changing Climate. Science funded by AFRI…
Viticulture for Veterans
…a flight paramedic and serving his country as an Army medic. After completing two tours in the Middle East, Robb decided to change careers to winemaking. Together, he and Jon…
Agri View: Chocolate Pleasure
…respond to climate conditions in the coming decades, the researchers brought together climate projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report with rainfall and temperature data from…
Funding Available for Foundational Agricultural Research
…agriculture to combat childhood obesity, improve and sustain rural economic growth, address water availability issues, increase food production, find new sources of energy, mitigate the impacts of climate variability and…
Agri View: Top Agriculture Prize
…FFA Organization. The letters “FFA” stand for Future Farmers of America. These letters are a part of our history and our heritage that will never change. But FFA is not…
2016 Trends in Agricultural Land & Lease Values
…assured, 2016 will bring change – and not just in the entertaining spectacle known as the presidential race.” In her overview article, 2015: Another Banner Year, or the Beginning of…
Honey Bee Colony Health Survey Results
…nation’s managed honey bee colonies. The data being released by NASS today adds to these two efforts by providing a baseline federal statistical resource to track change of reported numbers…