…over-subscribed NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and reduced discretionary funding for the Forest Service’s State and Private Forestry program by $20 million. “Every dollar reduction in voluntary conservation programs…
Ag Secretary Perdue Moves to Make School Meals Great Again
…Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Patricia Montague, CEO of the School Nutrition Association. “This announcement is the result of years of feedback from students, schools, and food…
AFBF’s President Duvall Joins in Historic White House Ag Roundtable
…Resource Sciences; National FFA officer (central region vice president), 2016-2017 Lynetta Griner of Florida, owner/operator of Usher Land and Timber, president of the Florida Forestry Association A.G. Kawamura of California,…
Executive Order Creates New Agriculture Panel
…American agriculture while protecting and supporting the rural communities where food, forestry, fiber, and renewable fuels are grown,” the text of the Executive Order reads. “It is further in the…
Historic White House Ag Roundtable Discussion Includes California Farmer
…and Timber, president of the Florida Forestry Association A.G. Kawamura of California, third-generation fruit and vegetable grower and shipper from Orange County; former secretary of the California Department of Food…
$6.3 Million in Funding Available for Resilient Agroecosystems-July 13 Deadline
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced $6.3 million in available funding for projects to support resilient agriculture and forestry production systems. Funding…
USDA: Agriculture a $992 Billion Economic Factor
…agriculture sector to GDP is larger than this because sectors related to agriculture—forestry, fishing, and related activities; food, beverages, and tobacco products; textiles, apparel, and leather products; food and beverage…
House Agriculture Committee Leadership Calls for Swift Confirmation of Governor Sonny Perdue
…to congratulate our colleagues on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry for successfully advancing the nomination of Governor Sonny Perdue to be our nation’s next Secretary of Agriculture….
U.C. Davis Tops in Ag Economic and Policy
…Rankings kept UC Davis No. 1 for veterinary science and had the campus second in agriculture and forestry. In other recent rankings, UC Davis was named the greenest university in…
Senate Agriculture Committee Swiftly Advances USDA Secretary Nominee Perdue
Perdue U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced the Committee voted to favorably report nominee Sonny Perdue to serve as…
Report Names Ag Labor in Human Trafficking List
…from Guatemala or were U.S. citizens. Cases involving women and children are rare, according to Polaris-operated hotlines. Forestry & Logging According to data from Polaris-operated hotlines, trafficking in the forestry…
Study Shows Capacity Funding is a Valued Investments to States
…most prevalent types of capacity grants include agronomy, animal science and livestock, basic life science, and forests and forestry. Capacity grants spur innovation. Agricultural advances are based on science, and…
Fresno State Signs Ag Academic Pact with Brazilian University
…16 postgraduate agriculture programs in economics, administration, animal, bioengineering, crop, entomology, food, forestry, plant and soil sciences. The new agreement will strengthen a relationship that has already included five-month practical…
National Ag Day 2017
…Horticulture, Forestry, Food Science, and Fisheries/Wildlife. Growth Job Market According to the February 7, 2000 Issue of Farm Bureau News, published semimonthly by the American Farm Bureau Federation, “Food Scientists…