Deanna van Klaveren was honored with the 2016 Profiles in Leadership Award by the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation (CALF) and the Ag Leadership Alumni Council. The award was presented at…
Farm Groups Discuss Food Industry GMO Marketing Claims/Conflict with Sustainable Agriculture
…and the intersection of both trends. The farmers were also joined by an agricultural academic researcher who talks about why sustainability and food biotechnology are linked. This follows the decision…
Almond Board: Importance of Spatial Mapping
…a partnership with Sacramento-based agricultural and environmental consulting firm Land IQ, has been developing a spatial database of almond acreage in California. Joel Kimmelshue with Land IQ explains why this…
Ag Tech Investments Reach Record
Investments in agricultural technology reached a record $25 billion globally last year, despite a softer global agriculture economy. A new report released this week by the Boston Consulting Group and…
Soil Health Key Topic of Climate-Smart Ag Meeting
…the Oct. 24 – 25 event. It focused on developing research targets for agricultural goals that: Support achievement of USDA’s “building blocks” for climate-smart agriculture; Integrate existing U.S. Midwest field…
River Infrastructure Major Concern for Corn Farmers
…increasingly dependent on exports and trade.” Among several important findings, the report concludes a L&D 25 closure could result in a loss of more than 7,000 jobs, $1.3 billion of…
Wasp and Scale Insects Help Control Giant Reed
…paying off, according to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) study. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists released the arundo gall wasp and the arundo scale several years ago as…
Export Exchange Wrapping Up
…presidential election and its potential impact on trade. Dineen says despite who wins the election next month, “trade is too important to our consumers, our agricultural system and our entire…
Bullish Agribusiness Opportunities Exist
…continue to play an important role in our agricultural economy.” During the first general session of the conference, attendees also heard about the state of agriculture exports. “The U.S. is…
Improve Energy Efficiency, Adopt Renewable Energy Systems
…million in loan guarantees to agricultural producers and rural small business owners since the start of the Obama Administration. When operational, these projects will generate or save almost 9 million…
Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics to Meet
…Agriculture; County Estimates and Farm Structure Panel update; response rate research; big data overview; National Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) communications plan; a new online Census response tool; and the Agricultural…
Extension Educators Receive National Honors
…new sources of energy, mitigate climate variability and ensure food safety. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural science, visit www.nifa.usda.gov/impacts, sign up for email updates, or follow us…
‘Stealth Visits’ Concern the Livestock Industry
…have no respect for the law or animal safety. We also ask law enforcement to provide any assistance possible to the agricultural community in preventing these unlawful “visits” from occurring….
Rural Mainstreet Index Reaches Lowest Level Since Recession
…straight month the index has languished below growth neutral 50.0. The October farm equipment-sales index sank to 13.1 from September’s 14.3. “Weakness in farm income and low agricultural commodity prices…