…for expanding global trade. FUNDING FOR KEY USDA PROGRAMS: ASTA supports funding for critical USDA science and research programs — Increased funding for the USDA-Agricultural Research Service National Plant Germplasm…
U.C. Davis Tops in Ag Economic and Policy
…the number of research articles published by its affiliates in top-tier academic journals. The Center for World University Rankings released its inaugural subjects ranking Monday. The ranking, which factors in…
Don’t Let the Tail Wag the Dog
by Jim Mulhern, President, CEO National Milk Producers Federation If experience is the best teacher, Congress should have learned an important lesson from the experience with the dairy Margin Protection…
FMC to Acquire Part of Divested DuPont Crop Protection Business
…FMC Health and Nutrition and receive $1.2 billion in cash. The European Union agreed to approve the Dow-DuPont merger, if the companies divested some assets, including research and development. FMC…
Almond Board: Big Increase for Low-Dust Incentive
…build on years of Almond Board-funded research on reducing dust emissions at harvest. The Almond Hullers and Processors Association (now Almond Alliance) worked closely with NRCS to develop this funding…
India Still Top Global Milk Producer
…is unique among the major milk producers because more than half of its production comes from water buffalo, rather than cattle. However, India’s dairy herd is the largest in the…
$1.9 Million for Alfalfa and Forage Research
…as a source for biobased materials and other renewable resources. AFRP is an integrated alfalfa-oriented research and extension program that supports collaborative research and technology transfer to improve overall agricultural…
New Funding Opportunities for Higher Education
…underrepresented minorities. NIFA invests in and advances agricultural research, education, and extension and promotes transformative discoveries that solve societal challenges. NIFA support for the best and brightest scientists and extension…
Western Growers Applauds Senate Ag Committee Perdue Vote
…to building a partnership with Secretary-designate Perdue, working together to advance agricultural priorities in areas such as immigration, the farm bill, trade, nutrition, research funding and the environment, and urge…
Report Names Ag Labor in Human Trafficking List
…in the agriculture and animal husbandry industry, from corn fields to orange orchards to dairy farms. Some crops such as tobacco—the crop cited most often on Polaris-operated hotlines—require much more…
NFU Urges Trump Administration to Oppose Dow-DuPont Merger
…their key research and development assets, mergers in this consolidated of an environment are difficult, if not impossible, to remedy, he concluded. “It is highly likely that many of those…
Study Find Some Confusion Regarding New Fuel Choices
Industry deeply concerned about government’s failure to educate consumers about new fuels at the pump A new nationwide research study of over 2,000 adults 18+ conducted online by Harris Poll…
Guayule: Past Meets Future
…more about this research in the March issue of AgResearch. For more information contact Sharon Durham, ARS Office of Communications. The Agricultural Research Service is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s…
Western View: Fake Science Journals Prove Anything You Want
…authors to be included. But, those articles are peer-reviewed and subject to intense scrutiny; they are how scientists on opposites sides of the country or the world share their research….