…16, 2025 California Pistachio Harvest 2025: Insights from Richard Kreps August 16, 2025 Dairy, Family, and Football: Joseph Bakker’s Life in the Central Valley August 14, 2025 Inside Hanford Dairy…
USDA Announces $4.8 Million Available to Support Food Safety Outreach Program
…growth over the course of the program. NIFA invests in and advances agricultural research, education, and extension and promotes transformative discoveries that solve societal challenges. NIFA support for the best…
AFBF’s President Duvall Joins in Historic White House Ag Roundtable
…Pennsylvania, dairy farmer and chair of the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board Hank Choate of Michigan, dairy farmer Tom Demaline of Ohio, president of Willoway Nurseries and vice chair, AmericanHort Zippy…
2017 W.O. Atwater Memorial Lecturer Renews Call for Excellence in Nutrition Research
…the quality of data that nutrition research is generating, especially data used for formulating nutrition guidelines and recommendations. While calling on industry to provide more support for research, Bier has…
Sonny Perdue Sworn in as 31st U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
…and not lament that the department might be faced with difficult challenges. As a youngster growing up on a dairy and diversified row crop farm in rural Georgia, Perdue never…
Historic White House Ag Roundtable Discussion Includes California Farmer
…The full list of attendees for this meeting is below. Luke Brubaker of Pennsylvania, dairy farmer and chair of the Pennsylvania Milk Marketing Board Hank Choate of Michigan, dairy farmer…
NFU President Attends March for Science in D.C.
…federal policy. Johnson also said there should be more publicly funded, independent and peer-reviewed agricultural research to inform both farmers and policymakers. More than 70 percent of U.S. agricultural research…
Ag Groups Pleased With Perdue Confirmation
…with him on the challenges facing the nation’s dairy farmers – issues he’s already indicated he will tackle at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). “Secretary Perdue knows that dairy…
A Better Way to Pasteurize Eggs
An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and his colleagues have developed a technology that rapidly pasteurizes eggs and could sharply reduce the number of illnesses caused each year by egg-borne…
National Dairy FARM Program Releases Environmental Stewardship Reference Manual to Celebrate Earth Day
The National Dairy FARM Program has released its Environmental Stewardship Continuous Improvement Reference Manual in cooperation with the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. Released in celebration of Earth Day, the…
Funding to Educate the Future Agricultural Science Workforce
…new scientists in the agricultural research, extension, and education arena.” The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for foundational and translational research,…
Canada Doubling Down on Dairy Trade Comments
…Pistachio Harvest 2025: Insights from Richard Kreps August 16, 2025 Dairy, Family, and Football: Joseph Bakker’s Life in the Central Valley August 14, 2025 Inside Hanford Dairy Life with Farmer…
Australia and New Zealand Dairy Leaders Would Support U.S. WTO Action on Canada
…President Donald Trump if he included the WTO in a trade dispute over a milk pricing scheme by Canada that is harming U.S. dairy farmers. U.S. dairy groups say the…
Food, Conservation Groups Invest in Soil to Sustain Food Production
…help others working on soil health efforts in the areas of research, education and networking. According to the organizations’ leaders, the scale-up of integrated research and soil health promotion is…