…agricultural locations within the perimeter of the fire, which started on Dec. 4 and grew into the state’s largest wildfire, burning nearly 282,000 acres as of late last week. In…
USDA Seeks Applications for $10 Million in Conservation Innovation Grants
…encouraging prescribed burning as a grazing management practice, and improving access to conservation planning tools used for developing grazing management plans. Organic Agriculture Systems: Helping organic producers develop innovative cropping…
Monsanto On Track for Carbon Neutrality in 2021
…Operational improvements have already reduced Monsanto’s carbon footprint by more than 200,000 metric tons. That’s a reduction about equal to burning 200,000 fewer tons of coal. The rate of reduction…
Study Says Ethanol Production Creates More Carbon Emissions
…a federal policy meant to reduce America’s reliance on fossil fuels. While adding ethanol means burning fewer fossil fuels, the study found that the benefits were lost as even greater…
Register Now for The Central Valley Summit
The Central Valley Summit on Alternatives to Open Burning of Agricultural Waste is scheduled for Tuesday, November 7, and Wednesday, November 8, at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center…
Farmers in Wildfire Zones Assess Impact
…burning or affected by smoke. We don’t even know the full extent at this point. Everyone is now finally starting to take inventory and figure out what we can do…
Preparing to Evacuate During Wildfire? These Checklists Can Help
As more than 20 major wildfires are burning in Northern California, residents in those regions need to be ready to evacuate on short notice. The wind-driven fires are moving quickly…
CDFA Secretary Applauds Wildfire Relief Efforts
Emergency response personnel have been working nonstop to provide wildfire relief to the areas of Northern California that have been burning since late Sunday night. Safety remains the top priority…
More Than 1,000 Stations Offering E15 in the U.S.
…Energy calls E15 a fuel that is clean and cool burning, and works well for cars model 2001 and newer and typically saves up to 10 cents per gallon. Leading…
Wildfires Continue to Sweep Through Northern California
…Services as a precautionary measure. The fire has taken the lives of many wildlife living in that region and broiled the land in its entirety. The fires burning in Napa,…
Forest Service Wildland Fire Suppression Costs Exceed $2 Billion
…need it to actually fight fires. It means we can’t-do the prescribed burning, harvesting, or insect control to prevent leaving a fuel load in the forest for future fires to…
Apply for Alternative Manure Management Program Grants
…be stored and used as renewable energy or as a clean-burning transportation fuel. Dairies will also soon have the ability to measure reductions from non-digester technologies such as mechanical manure…
Agri View: Costly Disaster Year
Everett Griner talks about 2017 being a costly disaster year in today’s Agri View. Costly Disaster Year You know it seems the Western half of this country has been burning…
Cattle Loss Limited from Montana Wildfires
…Drovers Cattle Network Dot Com that cattle losses from the fires have been limited. 29 fires are currently active in Montana, with the bulk of them burning in the western…