…offer scholarships to deserving students who are pursuing college degrees or careers in technical fields that are related to agriculture or food production or preparation. This financial award is based…
Equipment Groups Tackle Right to Repair
…Training, Seminars, or Clinics Fleet Management Information On-Board Diagnostics via diagnostics port or wireless interface Electronic Field Diagnostic Service Tools, and training on how to use them Other publications with…
Fish in the Fields May Reduce Methane Emissions
The Resource Renewal Institute (RRI) is moving into the second phase of its Fish in the Fields control study evaluating the introduction of fish in rice fields with a goal…
Farm Bureau Applauds Delay of Unlawful WOTUS Rule
…by treating dry ditches, swales and low spots on farm fields just like flowing waters. Without today’s action, countless farmers and ranchers, as well as other landowners and businesses, would…
Almond Matters: Extending Almond Bloom
…Field Development for Valent U.S.A. Pat Clay, “which is going to give the bees a better chance to pollinate those flowers and set fruit.” Field studies found that trees that…
Elderberry Project Evaluates Viability of California Production
…field edges. The elderberry project hopes to determine the viability of growing the fruit for more than just hedgerows. Growers are not likely to devote land to whole orchards of…
Super Bowl Sunday Chicken Wings
…that is… If 1.35 billion wings were laid end to end along Interstate 95, they would stretch from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia to Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. almost…
Almond Matters: Orchard Protection Techniques
…ANR “It’s important right now to have good field sanitation,” Field Market Development and Research Field Representative Tino Lopez said. “That means getting rid of a lot of the mummy…
USDA-APHIS to Review Research for Determination of Non-Regulated Status for Ultra-Low Gossypol Cottonseed
…as hulls and linters. Extensive field evaluations demonstrated that ULGCS poses no greater ecological risk than conventional cotton varieties.” USDA-APHIS will consider all comments received on or before February 5,…
Farm Bureau Statement on WOTUS Jurisdiction Decision
…application of the 2015 rule while EPA moves forward with an appropriate long-term solution that provides clear rules and clean water without requiring a federal permit to plow a field.”…
Secretary Perdue Outlines USDA Services in the Event of a Government Shutdown
…samples associated with foreign animal disease investigations, and, at the beginning of the period, to close out pending lab tests; Staffing at National Wildlife Research Center and its associated field…
USDA Announces Plenary Speakers for the 2018 Agricultural Outlook Forum
…for conversation among producers, processors, policymakers, government officials, and non-governmental organizations, both foreign and domestic. Early arrivals may take part in two pre-forum field trips: a farm conservation tour of…
USDA/NIFA Announces Support for Biomass Genomics Research
…reviews all proposals accepted in NIFA’s competitive grant programs through an external peer review process in which a panel of experts from within the respective field in question takes part….
USDA Investing Millions in Wildfire Mitigation and Water Quality Projects Through Joint Chiefs’ Partnership
…targeted species, debris and obstruction removal. Partners: Caribbean NRCS; Envirosurvey, Inc.; Cafiesencia, Inc; Protectores de Cuencas, Inc.; Puerto Rico Conservation Trust; Para la Naturaleza; and USFWS Caribbean Ecological Services Field…