…growth, addressing water availability issues, increasing food production, finding new sources of energy, mitigating climate variability and ensuring food safety. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural science, visit…
Report on Investments to Grow the Rural Economy
…Program in 2016 to complement its work in the StrikeForce and Promise Zones initiatives. The agency is partnering with community-based financial organizations, private-sector banks and philanthropic organizations to make more…
AFBF Pres. Duvall Comments on Nomination of Ryan Zinke to Interior
…while national monuments policies have unfairly limited public access to critical natural resources. “We know Congressman Zinke understands these issues and are encouraged that he is committed to just and…
Almond Board: 2016 Almond Achievement Award
…California: At the request of the almond industry, a Federal Marketing Order for almonds was established in 1950. At that time, it dealt primarily with compliance issues, and accordingly, was…
Canada Approves Funds for Ranchers Affected by Bovine TB
Ranchers in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada can now apply to access financial assistance to cope with an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis. The outbreak is forcing the slaughter of an estimated…
4-H and NASA Partner on Space Age STEM Curriculum
…for the best and brightest scientists and extension personnel have resulted in user-inspired, groundbreaking discoveries that are combating childhood obesity, improving and sustaining rural economic growth, addressing water availability issues,…
White House Issues ‘Midnight’ GIPSA Rule
In an apparent attack on rural America for its role in helping elect Donald Trump as president, the Obama administration issued a regulation that could restrict the buying and selling…
Chipotle Executive to Step Down Following Slow Growth
…issues, including a norovirus outbreak and two E. coli outbreaks. Sales in stores open at least a year, a key measure of a restaurant chain’s health, have not recovered as…
Funding for Food, Energy, and Water Systems Research
…and sustaining rural economic growth, addressing water availability issues, increasing food production, finding new sources of energy, mitigating climate variability and ensuring food safety. To learn more about NIFA’s impact…
Funding for Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research
…user-inspired, groundbreaking discoveries that are combating childhood obesity, improving and sustaining rural economic growth, addressing water availability issues, increasing food production, finding new sources of energy, mitigating climate variability and…
CDFA Announces Vacancies
…advises CDFA’s Nursery Services Program on policies, fees, and other issues concerning nurseries and nursery stock. Individuals interested in being considered for this Board appointment should send a brief resumé…
Meeting Growing Demand for Organic Products
…have resulted in user-inspired, groundbreaking discoveries that are combating childhood obesity, improving and sustaining rural economic growth, addressing water availability issues, increasing food production, finding new sources of energy, mitigating…
Almond Board: Waycott on State of the Industry
…dealt primarily with compliance issues, and accordingly, was called the Almond Control Board. In the 1970s, recognizing a need to address market development, the name was changed to the Almond…
Agricultural Relationship Key to China Ambassador Nominee
…trade and agricultural issues and has a “tremendous understanding” of China and its people, as reported by the Des Moines Register. A former aide to Branstad called the governor a…