…locate the hay they needed. That’s good business, because they want the caller to come back to them, when they do have hay. Their research shows that their are 24,000…
Cultivating the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
…Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Washington, D.C., $150,000 North-South Institute, Inc., Davie, Fla., $330,828 The Kohala Center, Inc., Waimea, Hawaii, $564,000 Jannus Inc., Boise, Idaho, $597,867 Angelic Organics Learning Center, Caledonia, Ill.,…
Climate Smart Agriculture
…Netherlands and the University of California’s World Food Center addressing salinity in specialty crops within California’s Central Valley and along coastal areas. The webinar is now available online with included…
Zika Virus Battle
The battle against Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads Zika A female Aedes aegypti mosquito The UC Mosquito Research Laboratory in Parlier is the epicenter of California research on the…
Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Trucks
…global energy and climate security by reducing our reliance on oil. The product of four years of extensive testing and research and outreach to industry, environmental organizations, labor unions, and…
Economic Analysis of the 2016 California Drought for Agriculture
…for drought. These results were developed by this team of researchers from UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, ERA Economics and the UC Agricultural Issues Center for their third drought…
Funding to Train the Next Generation of Agricultural Leaders
…systems. Michigan State University used a previous NIFA grant to provide veterinarians with new competencies in basic infectious and metabolic disease research through courses and research experiences in immunology, molecular…
Agri View: Beekeeping 101
…Bee Health Honey Bees and Beekeeping 1.1: A Year in the Life of an Apiary Presented with permission of the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Learn more about…
Fertilizer Research and Education Grant Funding
The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP) is currently accepting proposals for a 2016 special grant program for fertilizer research and education. This competitive…
More About the Almond Alliance of CA
…library of resources, data and research that can support our advocacy agenda and our position as we look at different policies.” Find out more about the Almond Alliance of California….
African leaders visit CDFA
…Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation (OEFI). Fatima Ademoh from Nigeria and James Kakeeto from Uganda visited CDFA on July 27 to learn about our Dairy Digester Research and Development…
Vegetable Seeds Headline Breeder Field Day
HM. Clause held its 2016 Davis Field Days at its research farm in Davis. The HM. Clause field day brought in producers from several countries to learn more about the…
Farmers Markets Must Visit List
…Market in San Rafael, where farmers, ranchers, cheese makers, bakers, beekeepers, and shellfish harvesters from Marin and Sonoma counties present their goods next to the Marin Civic Center building, a…
Land Grant Universities Compiling Animal Feed Database
21 land-grant institutions are collaborating to provide researchers, producers and industry partners’ up-to-date, research-based information on the nutrient needs of agricultural animals. Since forming in 2010, the National Animal Nutrition…