…Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) focuses on restoring and protecting wetlands as well as conserving productive agricultural lands and grasslands. Landowners are compensated for enrolling their land in easements. “Protecting…
USDA/NIFA Invests in Programs to Increase Crop Productivity, Profitability, and Stewardship of Three Crops
…Program supports the development of improved alfalfa forage and seed production systems. The Supplemental and Alternative Crops Grants Program supports the development of canola as a viable supplemental and alternative…
Almond Board: Farmland Trusts
In this week’s Almond Update, we hear about one farmer’s decision to place an agricultural conservation easement on his property. Sabrina Hill talks with Tom Ulm, president of Ulm Farms…
McKinney Visit to India Good for U.S. Pork
…get U.S. pork into India by eliminating the country’s non-scientific trade barriers. India benefits from the Generalized System of Preferences, a U.S. preferential trade program providing duty-free access to countries…
Fresno State Ag Mechanization Lab Gets Update
…the mechanized agriculture program and James Moller. The donation was made in memory of Moller’s father, Leonard Moller, who owned and operated the Acme Machine Shop in Fresno until 1973….
USDA Research to Support Environmentally-Friendly Pesticides, Reduction of Methyl Bromide
…an older treatment for pests. The Methyl Bromide Transition (MBT) program is helping to discover and implement practical and safer pest management alternatives. Projects may focus on integrated research and…
Perdue Announces Hass Avocado Board Appointments
…website, including a link to the Hass Avocado Board roster under the heading Organizational Structure. More information about research and promotion programs is available on the Research and Promotion Programs…
Labor, Guestworker Programs Lead Sustainable Ag Expo
…year when comparing the H2A program to the Bracero program in the 1940’s. He continued that message this year as he showed attendees that H2A program usage continues to grow….
Secretary Perdue Supports Better Guestworker Program
…the current H-2A guestworker program with an H-2C program that would be administered by the United States Department of Agriculture. The bill was introduced on October 2 by House Judiciary Committee…
PBW Program Highlights Pest Pressure in Cotton
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has recently released their final report on the Pink Bollworm (PBW) Program for the San Joaquin Valley. The program also monitors the presence…
Water Managers Prepare for New Rainfall Season
…we track. The historical average for those reservoirs is 21.7 million acre-feet, so we were 120 percent of the historical average.” Andrea Bair, National Weather Service climate services program manager,…
Fixing the Dairy Safety Net
…the safety net, known as the Margin Protection Program (MPP). “The last thing I’d like to see is a disaster happen and no one has signed up for the program,”…
Record Corn Yield Underscores RFS Success
…driven even further improvements in yields, even in the face of increasingly challenging weather conditions. As a consequence of this demand-driven market dynamic, farm program costs have been reduced; feed,…
USDA Invests in Integrated Pest Management for Increased Production
…in the face of these threats.” These grants are awarded through three NIFA pest management programs. The Crop Protection and Pest Management program supports research and extension projects that address…