Kendal Frazier is New NCBA Chief Executive Officer From: National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Kendal Frazier The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has named Kendal Frazier its new chief executive officer. NCBA…
EPA: $3.3 Million in Funding for Water Reuse and Conservation Research
…the water supply in the long term.” Water conservation practices that promote water reuse are becoming increasingly important, especially in the western United States, where factors such as climate change,…
Food and Ag Groups Express Optimism for New Opportunities in Cuba
…to a market of 11 million people just 90 miles away from American shores.” Statement by National Grain and Feed Association “The NGFA believes strongly in normalizing agricultural trade relations…
How is Climate Change Affecting Agriculture?
…and co-author Daniel Sumner, director of the UC Agricultural Issues Center and Frank H. Buck, Jr. Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis, based their…
$8.5 Million Awarded to Improve Communities’ Water Sources
…agricultural production and environmental sustainability. Grants recipients include: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., $2,400,531 University of Maryland, College Park, Md., $3,449,757 University of Montana, Missoula, Mont., $486,621 North Carolina…
Annual Post-Harvest Pest Control Seminar
…California, Davis Spencer Walse, USDA-ARS, San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center; Parlier, California MODERATOR: Mary Lu Arpaia, Ph.D., University of California Cooperative Extension, Subtropical Horticulturalist, is based at the Kearney…
Tree Nut Theft Training Seminar
The Western Agricultural Processors Association and the American Pistachio Growers will host a Tree Nut Theft Training Seminar on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Modesto. The…
Historic Agreements for U.S.-Cuba Agriculture Sectors
…information exchanges with Cuba about agricultural productivity, food security and sustainable natural resource management. Secretary Vilsack called the announcement “a significant step forward in strengthening our bond and broadening agricultural…
Johnsongrass Target of New Research
…and recent funding is starting the process to look for new tools to help control it. Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center Director Jeff Dahlberg says he will be working…
Carbon Offset Could Make OM Incorporation Feasible
…agricultural waste for growers, and a little boost to a producer’s income. When growers remove an orchard, for example, these facilities would pay the producer for the organic matter. Funding…
Confusing Chicken Labels
…Table page provides more details about the journey of the all-American chicken from the chicken farm to your table. The following is from: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association Raising Chickens…
Agri View: Chicken Wings
…the name definitively refers to the city in Western New York. The most authoritative account is by New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, who investigated the dish’s history in 1980 as…
Western View: Yosemite Names trademarked
…treasure. Western View: Yosemite Names trademarked The company took this action around the time the internet was being born. The internet, as we all know, has changed the world, and…
Virtual Tour Shows Students Smart Farms
…across the country to a hog, corn and soybean farm to see today’s modern agricultural practices in action. Students will also hear from fourth generation farmer Ryan Veldhuizen, who was…