…spreading dangerous, invasive Hungry Pests. These pests can travel across borders, continents and oceans with human assistance. They hitchhike in or on plants, produce or food brought in as gifts…
Agriculture Education Helping Grow the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
…sciences. The project has a strong service learning component: 58 interns will grow food to be sold at farmers markets and donated to food-insecure families, including their own. Johnson County…
Research to Support Healthy Agroecosystems
…services. Agroecosystems may include crop and animal production systems and pasture, range, and forest lands that are actively managed to provide economic, societal, and environmental benefits. Projects funded through this…
Indonesia Planning to Stop Corn Imports by 2018 or Sooner
…domestic production of corn as part of its broad goal of food self-sufficiency. The ag minister says up to seven million hectares—or 17.3 million acres—of land would be needed for…
CDFA SWEEP Program Awards 167 Projects
SWEEP is funded through California’s Cap-and-Trade auction proceeds The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has selected 167 projects, totaling $22 million, to receive grants from the State Water…
Central Valley Supports Food Supply Chains
…market opportunities for local foods, and read more about USDA’s investments in rural America on the USDA Medium Chapter: New Markets, New Opportunities: Strengthening Local Food Systems and Organic Agriculture….
2016 Supermarket Food Prices Will Average Lower than 2015
For the first time in almost six decades average grocery store food prices this year will be lower than the year before. lower-than-2015…
Food Safety Tips
Cathy Isom has five food safety tips you need to know before starting to cook that holiday meal. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Food Safety Tips Here…
Report Highlights Scientific Research
…Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services (APHIS-BRS), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s International Services (APHIS-IS), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Economic Research Service (ERS),…
Pro-GMO Labeling Group Fined
Food Democracy Action was fined more than $320,000 for campaign finance violations regarding the group’s support of a ballot measure in Washington state to require GMO Labeling. Farm Journal’s AgWeb…
Changes to Improve the Prevented Planting Program
…support American agriculture, an industry that supports one in 11 American jobs, provides American consumers with more than 80 percent of the food we consume, ensures that Americans spend less…
Inconclusive Results Hint at More HLB
…The disease has only been found in two residential areas of Los Angeles County. The California Department of Food and Agriculture has found two PCR-positive trees in Hacienda Heights and…
Cost of Thanksgiving Meal
…what we’ve all known about food prices here in America and that is that U.S. consumers have access to an abundant high-quality and low-cost food supply. We spend about 10…
Canada Confirms More Bovine TB cases
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed five more cattle from southeastern Alberta have been infected with the bacteria that causes bovine tuberculosis. Ag Canada reports the five animals were…