Costa Announces $6.3 Million in Agricultural Water Conservation and Efficiency Grants

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…The proposed project is estimated to achieve water savings of 296 acre-feet annually. More information on the funding can be found on the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s website, here: http://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=47145…

USDA Announces Programs to Conserve Sensitive Land and Help Beginning Farmers

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…Secretary also announced that retiring farmers enrolled in CRP could receive incentives to transfer a portion of their land to beginning, disadvantaged or veteran farmers through the Transition Incentives Program…

Key Agriculture Componet Added to Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Awards

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For the first time in the history of the Governor’s Economic and Leadership Awards (GEELA), the category of Agricultural Ecosystem Services has been added for statewide recognition by the California…

AFBF: EPA Greenhouse Gas Plan Harmful to Economy, Agriculture

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…Bureau Federation said today. The EPA’s attempt to impose a 30-percent reduction in carbon dioxide on the nation’s power plants will lead to higher energy prices. Farmers would face not…

Celebrating Dairy in June

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…Milk Month June is National Dairy Month, and following years of tradition here in California, Governor Jerry Brown has declared it Real California Milk Month as well. The proclamation reads…

USDA Selects 2014 Class of E. Kika De La Garza Fellows

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…FL; Alicia Gonzalez Quiroz, Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX; Alison Bray, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX. For more information on the E. Kika De La Garza Fellowship program, visit: www.hsi.usda.gov/HSIs/fellowship.htm…

Ag Industry Reacts to EPA Draft Rule for Air

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…plan – but effects will also hit home in rural America. National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson – however – says the changing climate has already begun to affect agriculture…