…has invested in and advanced innovative and transformative initiatives to solve societal challenges and ensure the long-term viability of agriculture. NIFA’s integrated research, education, and extension programs, supporting the best…
Agri View: Foreigner’s Farmland
…Arizona, a Tempe-based dairy cooperative whose members also buy alfalfa. “This will continue unless there’s regulations put on it.” In a statement announcing the California farmland purchase, the Saudi company…
New Cost Studies for Growing Almonds
…available. To download the cost studies, visit the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics website at http://coststudies.ucdavis.edu. The cost and returns program is funded by the UC Agricultural…
USDA Unveils New ‘Urban Agriculture Toolkit’
…development, production strategies, and applying for federal, state or private foundation grants. University extension service partners in Chicago and Indianapolis helped develop cost estimates for starting urban farms and the…
Farmers Check Impact of Spring Storms
…on the trees.” Franz Niederholzer, University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor for Yuba and Sutter counties, reported widespread damage throughout the primary prune-growing area from Red Bluff to Yuba…
Identifying Vine Mealybug, A Growing Problem
…jar of alcohol or sealed plastic bag. Take the sample to either your University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) farm advisor or county Agricultural Commissioner. Read more from UC IPM….
Antimicrobial Resistance Research
…viability of agriculture. NIFA’s integrated research, education, and extension programs, supporting the best and brightest scientists and extension personnel, have resulted in user-inspired, groundbreaking discoveries that are combating childhood obesity,…
NMPF Announces Staff Reorganization; Welcomes Two New Employees
…needs of the farmers, cooperatives and processors who participate in it. As chief of staff, Meredith will take on new responsibilities for strategic planning, organizational oversight and management of staff…
It’s Not Just Climate Change
…Max Moritz, UC Cooperative Extension fire ecology specialist whose lab is at the University of California, Berkeley. “This is an important finding about how we model climate change effects, and…
Resource to Help Food Hubs
USDA Offers New Resource to Help Food Hubs Improve Financial Performance Rural Business-Cooperative Service Administrator Sam Rikkers announced a new resource to help food hubs improve their financial performance. Food…
New Partnerships to Link Underserved Farmers
…U.S. Department Agriculture (USDA) announced cooperative agreements with 55 partners to educate farmers and other producers that have been underserved by USDA programs historically about Farm Service Agency (FSA) programs…
Citrus Greening Research Funding
…NIFA’s integrated research, education, and extension programs, supporting the best and brightest scientists and extension personnel, have resulted in user-inspired, groundbreaking discoveries that are combating childhood obesity, improving and sustaining…
Study Uses Domestic Sheep to Facilitate Sustainable Farming
…Montana State University and North Dakota State University faculty members. NIFA invests in and advances agricultural research, education and extension and seeks to make transformative discoveries that solve societal challenges….
Innovative Pest Management Solutions
…extension IPM efforts. Previously funded projects include an extension-led project through Cornell University to identify and report locations of late blight outbreaks in Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and…