The CEO for Syngenta pointed to Brexit as a boost for the United Kingdom’s crop regulations, saying he sees the referendum vote to leave the European Union as an “opportunity…
Virtual Representative for Small and Very Small Plants
…benefit customers in every time zone in the United States and its territories. It joins two successful virtual representative services that FSIS offers – askFSIS for policy-related questions and Ask…
Mexican Ethanol Producers Set Sights on Sorghum
…Kansas and Texas. The trade mission, partnering with the United Sorghum Checkoff Program, gave participants the opportunity to tour facilities and learn more about the benefits of using sorghum as…
Agri View: Crop Losses
…statistical approach on data available from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). They considered not only extremely high temperatures, but also drought, flooding and severe cold….
Strawberry Tool Tells Producers When to Treat
…California. According to USDA Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, in 2014 the United States produced 3 billion pounds of strawberries valued at nearly $2.9 billion, and California is the number-one state…
GOP Platform Touches on Ag Issues
…Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule a “travesty” that will micro-manage and over regulate “puddles and ditches on farms, ranches and other privately-held property.” The document…
Agri View: Lost Land
…of public land, environment, natural resource and Native American law at the University of Wyoming, is the author of “The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve…
Agri View: Bad Weather
…Great Lakes region, while showers and thunderstorms are affecting the westernmost Corn Belt. Despite pockets of drought, overall growing conditions are mostly favorable for Midwestern corn and soybeans. In the…
Western View: Kings Forest
…There’s a foreboding threat of violence in the protests known as the Sagebrush Rebellion. This is an issue we need to study and resolve. Western View: King Forest It began…
Drought Resistant Plants
…Western culture, such as grapes and pomegranates—the Garden of Eden was purportedly somewhere in the drylands of the Middle East, after all. Others are common garden plants that just happen…
Ag Secretary Vilsack a Potential VP Candidate
…I know about foreign policy: The United States must be at the center of every problem globally. We must lead. I understand that.” Vilsack told NBC he’s happy to talk…
First-Ever National Academy of Sciences Prize
…on improving people’s health with vaccines and other life-saving tools and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks…
Agri View: Fire Ant Problem
…of Imported Fire Ants (IFA) were introduced into the United States from South America at the port of Mobile, Alabama. The black imported fire ant, Solenopsis richteri Forel, arrived around…
Funding for Farmworker Housing
…immigrants come to the United States for the opportunity to work, pay taxes and fully contribute to this country’s economy, many with a dream of someday becoming American citizens. America’s…