…surface water deliveries to growers this year due to a wet winter. Spring Potatoes – The 2016 Spring Potato crop forecast is 10.1 million cwt., up 3.7 percent from last…
People’s Garden
…Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play….
State Says Continue Water Savings
…the state, with limited drinking water supplies in some communities, diminished water for agricultural production and environmental habitat, and severely depleted groundwater basins. The executive order calls for long-term improvements…
$10 Million in Green Energy Research
…and environmentally sustainable sources of biomass and increase the availability of renewable fuels and biobased products, helping to replace the need for gasoline and diesel in vehicles, and diversify our…
Foreign Fruits-Veggies
…as sweet and sour, much like a grape. Though it has its origin in Southeast Asia, rambutan has been imported around the world, and now is commonly cultivated as close…
The California Kitchen: Grilled Salmon Potato Salad
In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing Grilled Salmon Potato Salad with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here is what you will need: 4 each 3 oz. Salmons…
People’s Gardens Across Government
…can more effectively exchange ideas about how to engage thousands of employees and improve employee health and wellness in the workplace. For 21 years my agency, the Agricultural Marketing Service,…
Wildland Fires in a Tube
…To study the potential health risks of breathing wildfire smoke, a major form of air pollution, researchers at EPA are now using a technology that mimics these phases of a…
Conservation Reserve Program Results
…Vilsack. “Over the past 30 years, CRP has created major environmental improvements throughout the countryside. The program has removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere equal to removing nine million cars…
Fighting Drought With Soil
…soil. The team, led by Samantha Ying, an assistant professor of environmental sciences at UC Riverside, received the grant from the University of California Office of the President. The funding…
Strengthen Rural Communities
…only been able to fund one out of 10 research proposals presented. While grants awarded to universities, non-profits, community groups, businesses, foundations, associations, and federal agency and international partnerships have…
Habitat for Wildlife and Pollinators
…of the agency’s special effort launched last year to establish monarch butterfly habitat in the southern Great Plains and Midwest. The monarch is one of the most familiar butterflies in…
Open Prairie Rural Opportunities Fund
…in the crop protection, agricultural production and processing, precision agriculture, and information and data management sectors. “This fund is unique among other licensed RBICs in that it has broad support…
USDA Unveils New ‘Urban Agriculture Toolkit’
…Resources Conservation Service technical and financial assistance for drip irrigation and seasonal high tunnels to extend the growing season. Farm Services Agency microloans that provide up to $50,000 in financing…
