…(AMR). This funding is available through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill, and administered by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)….
Farm City Newsday Podcast for May 2
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Sabrina Hill. To listen or subscribe [display_podcast] Subscribe in a reader…
NMPF Announces Staff Reorganization; Welcomes Two New Employees
…Tech. Her research was focused on how mastitis and metabolic diseases affect dairy cow behavior. Beverly Hampton also comes from an agriculture background, as she grew up on her family’s…
Loans for Farm Storage-Handling Equipment
USDA Offers New Loans for Portable Farm Storage and Handling Equipment Portable Equipment Can Help Producers, including Small-Scale and Local Farmers, Get Products to Market Quickly U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Almond Tree Increase Brings Questions and Benefits
As California Almond Acreage Grows, Trees Bring Benefits to Agriculture, Environment and Community From the Almond Board of California: The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reported that California’s almond acreage…
Factors Impacting Cost of Production
…Farmer Cooperatives, Washington, DC The Honorable Jeff M. Witte, Secretary/Director, New Mexico Department of Agriculture, Las Cruces, NM, on behalf of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Ms….
Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge
Cathy Isom tells us about the American Farm Bureau’s Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge. The competition to help rural startups in food and agriculture across the country. That’s coming up on This…
Farm City Newsday Podcast for April 29
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Agri View: El Niño Fading
…November and December in eastern North America – a good example of how attribution of seasonal temperature patterns is a complicated matter. Read more from Climate.gov. Images courtesy of Climate,gov….
It’s Not Just Climate Change
…that human activity explains as much about their frequency and location as climate influences. The researchers systematically looked at human (anthropogenic) behaviors and climate change together, which is unique and…
CA Almond Acreage Increases Again
…Agriculture Cooperating with the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Pacific Regional Office California’s 2015 almond acreage is estimated at 1,110,000 acres, up 6 percent from the 2014 revised acreage of…
Resource to Help Food Hubs
…in food production and distribution. Joining Rikkers at the market were representatives from the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture, a non-profit organization that operates a farm, mobile market,…
Farm City Newsday Podcast for April 28
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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…