By Sharon Durham USDA Agriculture Research Service A caterpillar, Lygomusotima stria, on a Lygodium microphyllum leaf in Singapore. (Image courtesy of USDA/ARS) This June, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ecologist Melissa…
Food and Forestry Research and Development Projects
…lab to the boardroom. Since 2009, through the Small Business Innovation Research program alone, USDA has awarded nearly 850 research and development grants to American-owned, independently operated, for-profit businesses, allowing…
Dairy Industry Want Margin Protection Program Fixed
Randy Mooney, National Milk Producers Federation Chair, said, “There’s no more important issue than getting the Margin Protection Program fixed.” He called it the right dairy program for dairy farmers,…
NMPF Pres. Commemorates Centennial / Sets Path for Future
…with promotional organizations Dairy Management Inc. and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, as well as the U.S. Dairy Export Council. National Milk and the dairy industry as a whole…
American Lamb Board Appointments Announced
…the Lamb Promotion, Research, and Information Order, which created the program under the authority of the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996 (pdf). Organizational Structure The 13-member Board…
Agri View: Export Trade
…be 133 billion dollars. There is horticultural products, cotton, livestock and dairy products. Don’t forget poultry, oilseed and tree nuts. China is expected to be our biggest customer. Just a…
UC Releases New Cost Study for Growing Almonds
…Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers and educators draw on local expertise to conduct agricultural, environmental, economic, youth development and nutrition research that helps California thrive. Learn more at ucanr.edu. …
New Rangeland Fire Science Plan
…plans are also based upon well-vetted research,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “Balancing conservation with agricultural demands is no easy task. The decisions Western farmers and ranchers and other private…
Changing Organization and Well-Being of Midsize Farms
by Christopher Burns and Ryan Kuhns, USDA Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? Midsize farms. Defined as those with gross cash farm income (GCFI) between $350,000 and $1 million—represent…
October Dairy Market Report
…long slide in U.S. exports could be bottoming out and a modest recovery is under way. World demand for imported dairy products has picked up recently, and world dairy product…
Teal Pumpkins
…by Food Allergy Research and Education or FARE. Food allergies in the U-S affect every one in 13 kids. For anyone wanting to offer up Candy alternatives, FARE suggests items…
Future of Our Agricultural Community
…meetings, and seeing facilities such as Sacramento Rendering Company and a Foster Farms feed mill. Another notable tour arranged by the Division’s Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP) (https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/ffldrs/frep/) included…
Herbal Answer to a Longer Life?
Today Cathy Isom answers a question many of us, and researchers, have had. Could there be an herbal secret to a longer life? That’s coming up on This Land of…
Crop Insurance Options for Upland Cotton Farmers
by Ashley Hungerford and Erik O’Donoghue, USDA Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? The 2014 Farm Act changed the structure of several commodity support programs for agriculture. Before, cotton…