…a Strawberry-Banana Smoothie, Strawberry Pizza, or Strawberries and Cream Bread Pudding. I’m Cathy Isom… From: Food.com Strawberries and Cream Bread Pudding by Montana Heart Song Ingredients Servings 8 10slices dry…
Vertical Garden Ideas
…a bit now in commercial farming. Vertical tower gardens are also quite popular by stacking large food-grade tubes or buckets. Things like strawberries, herbs, lettuce, and so on are planted…
Some Brazil Soybeans Very Muddy
…efforts. That’s a tough blow to Brazilian farmers who’ve seen a multiple-year drop in Ag prices, currency appreciation, and a national recession. An AgroConsult analyst says because the damaged crop…
Senate Told Action Needed to Address Dairy Safety Net
…Milk Producers Federation, of which DFA is a member. Her full testimony can be found here. The MPP, designed to assist farmers during periods of distressed milk prices or high…
Fighting a Citrus Killer
…Agriculture), and Jonathan Kaplan (California State University, Sacramento). The grant is one of four given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to combat…
USDA Invests $4.8 Million in University Agricultural Programs
…food production, find new sources of energy, mitigate climate variability, and ensure food safety. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural science, visit www.nifa.usda.gov/impacts, sign up for email updates…
UNH Research: Organic Pesticides Help Manage Cabbage Aphids on Brussels Sprouts
…is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number 228522. For additional information on this research project, read UNH Research Report: Managing…
Help the Bees
Continuing her series on pollinators, Cathy Isom gives us five ways to help out some magnificent creatures that are vital to our food supply. That’s coming up on This Land…
Grocery Industry Seeking to Reduce Consumer Confusion on Product Date Labels
…ways to cut food waste. GMA member companies recycled 97 percent of food waste from operations and donated 156 million pounds of food to food banks in 2015. FMI member…
Agri View: Red Meat Consumption
Everett Griner talks about a new study on red meat consumption in today’s Agri View. Red Meat Consumption If you read too much about the food you eat or how…
Rural Mainstreet Index Improving
…less negative. Over the past 12 months, livestock commodity prices have tumbled by 9.4 percent and grain commodity prices have slumped by 6.3 percent, both an improvement over last month,”…
AFBF Joins Groups in Support of Farm Bill Funding
…Bread for the World, Feeding America, the Food Research & Action Center, the National Association of Counties, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. The letter…
Iowa Bees
…by these tiny, buzzing, black and yellow beauties are becoming sparse. And bee kingdoms are diminishing. That’s a major concern for the global food supply, because honeybees and other pollinators…
California Dairy Inches Closer to FMMO
…of a federal milk marketing order, which would incorporate all of California. California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Secretary Karen Ross said Wednesday’s session is an important part of…