…available on the NIFA website. Among past projects, a University of Tennessee at Martin project created a mobile energy classroom to share knowledge on traditional and renewable energy production and…
UNH Research: Organic Pesticides Help Manage Cabbage Aphids on Brussels Sprouts
…is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number 228522. For additional information on this research project, read UNH Research Report: Managing…
USDA Announces Webinar Series about Project Applications for the Regional Conservation Partnership Program
Pre-proposals for innovative partner-driven projects due April 21 In January 2017, USDA invited potential conservation partners to submit project applications for federal funding through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)….
Iowa Bees
…Cedar Rapids hopes this project will inspire other cities and towns to take action. Gibbins suggested even something as simple as creating a bee population in your own backyard in…
House Agriculture Committee Considers Pros and Cons to Restricting SNAP Purchases
…Research Fellow, Poverty Studies, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. Dr. Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Director, The Hamilton Project, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Ms. Leslie Sarasin, CEO,…
$1.7 Million to Support Research at Tribal Colleges and Universities
…date, the project has trained native scholars in the field and classroom, and has reached more than 40 native middle and high school students through outreach events. Another project through…
Hungry Americans Benefit from Farm Bureau Donations
…2016 as part of Farm Bureau’s “Harvest for All” program. Combined, the monetary and food donations also reached a record level of the equivalent of more than 31 million meals….
Cargill Plans to Expand and Upgrade Canada Beef Processing Plant
…the cost of the expansion project by contributing nearly $500,000, a move Ontario’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said will help the province remain competitive, according to online…
NASA Report: San Joaquin Valley Land Continues to Sink
…due to subsidence, water project operators must reduce flows. The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), which operates the State Water Project, is analyzing whether the subsidence-created dip in the…
Postharvest Practices Influence Cherry Splitting
…splitting and some processes that might reduce it. A University of California, Davis, study aimed to see if any postharvest practices influenced cherry quality. “The project was looking at cherry…
Funding for Plant and Animal Phenomics and Microbiome Projects
…$285,000 Cornell University, New York, $275,000 Cornell University, New York, $262,000 Project details can be found on the NIFA website. Among the grants, a University of California-Davis project will engineer…
Snow Survey Shows Big Gains
…Oroville, the State Water Project’s largest reservoir, holds much more water today than a year ago – 121 percent of its historical average today compared to just 68 percent one…
Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture
…and taking precision agriculture to a whole new level. The three-year Robot-Assisted Precision Irrigation and Diagnostics (RAPID) project is led by UC Merced robotics Professor Stefano Carpin, UC Berkeley Professor…
Beekeepers, Farmers Prepare for Pollination
…growing again.” Billy Synk, director of pollination programs at Project Apis m.—a group established by farmers and beekeepers to fund honeybee research—said he expects pollination to face challenges this year,…