…belt buckles and a six-month, top-tier membership to the AgStart Incubator in Woodland. The hyper-local, produce-sharing app provides gardening advice from the UC Master Gardener Program and enables backyard gardeners…
Farm Bureau Boot Camp
…Women’s Leadership Committee; believes strongly in the benefits of the program. “Our evaluations indicate this training is vital for helping Farm Bureau women successfully use communication tools and step out…
Avocado Growers Face Obstacles but Harvest More Fruit
…enough workers.” Leavens Ranches decided last year to participate in the federal H-2A agricultural guestworker program, and bought a small apartment building in the Santa Paula Valley to house employees…
Organic Symposium Proceedings Now Available
…organic agriculture offers the promise of a future to produce and distribute food and other farm products in a healthy, economically sound, truly sustainable and fair way. He called the…
First-Ever National Academy of Sciences Prize
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Establishes National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Support Nominations Now Open for First Annual…
Man’s New Best Friend
…food in it in front of an array of goats, with a researcher standing quietly nearby. After teaching the goats to open the box and retrieve the food, which the…
Agri View: Fire Ant Problem
…in Agricultural Research Service, universities, and states, implement an Imported Fire Ant Phorid Fly (Pseudacteon spp.) rearing and release program. The first 2 species of this biocontrol agent, P. tricuspis…
A visit to ‘The FARM’
…experience everyone can learn from. The FARM is actually a working farm where food grown is donated to local food banks. The highlight for many is the FARM’s sturgeon petting…
Agri View: Labor Shortages
…have a legal, reliable supply of workers. Current federal programs and policies dealing with farm labor have resulted in a daunting, broken system, riddled with shortcomings that have resulted in…
NPPC Opposes Proposed Animal Welfare Changes
…of organic food and agriculture, but they could be broadened to include regular livestock production methods. Another policy change NPPC opposes is in Massachusetts, where a livestock housing initiative backed…
Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Deal Goes to A Vote
…a result, there may be more opportunities for Canadian companies as Ukraine’s trade market diversifies, particularly in food and agriculture. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….
Women-In-Ag Trade Mission to the Far East in September
…as destinations for the mission because the U.S. enjoys strong trading relations with both countries. Hong Kong relies on imports for 95 percent of its food supply, and China was…
NIFA Announces Funding
…the Small Business Innovation Research program, administered by NIFA. “Small businesses are the economic back bone of rural America,” said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. “The SBIR program has provided small…
NMPF on Passage of Biotech Labeling Bill
…food biotechnology. By reasserting the federal government’s role in regulating food labeling, the Congress is ending the ‘death by a thousand cuts’ approach of potentially conflicting state laws in this…