…adoption from conventional producers and that research and outreach could help. “We need to do more research and generate more data to build some faith in these products and also increases…
Understanding Regenerative Agriculture as a Farming System
…a look at the entire system; the biological system of your farming and ranching operation,” said Former Noble Research Institute President and CEO, Bill Buckner. While the practices are similar…
Historical Joint Citrus Conference Sees Record Attendance in Riverside
…citrus conference was organized by the Citrus Research Board, UC Riverside, United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service as well as several citrus industry, state and federal government agencies,…
Farm City Newsday Friday, 03-15-19
…2019 Leaders Conference in Sacramento, research that shows strong species richness with post-fire grazing and how the newly proposed Blue Card Bill is a step in a direction. Also, you’ll…
Proactive IPM Solutions Grants Available
…annual appropriation of $544,000 for this and other research as part of the 2018-2019 budget. OPCA provides consultation to the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) on pesticide regulatory matters….
Researching Soil Health Using Cover Crops
Research that is being made possible through the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Healthy Soils Demonstration Project is starting to take shape at multiple sites throughout the state. Researchers…
USDA Predicts Increase in Farm Income for 2019
…March 6 from the USDA Economic Research Service demonstrates an expectation for net income to increase $6.3 billion for the year, an increase of about ten percent compared to 2018…
Study Clarifies U.S. Beef’s Resource Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
…country, added Rotz, with ARS’ Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research Unit in University Park, Pennsylvania. His collaborators are former ARS research associate Senorpe Asem-Hiablie, Greg Thoma of the University…
California Walnuts Receive Trade Funding for Tariff Relief
…California Walnut Board (CWB), seek to maintain the industries competitiveness in the marketplace, from research to marketing, not only for the present but for our future. The California walnut industry…
Progress in Combating Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter
Glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) Photographer: Reyes Garcia III, USDA Agricultural Research Service, United States The glassy-winged sharpshooter is the culprit behind the spread of Pierce’s disease among grapevines. The insect…
FFA Chapters Use Innovative Microsoft Solution to Delve Deeper Into Agriculture
…of a collaboration announced last year between National FFA and Microsoft to bring innovative technology, science, research, and entrepreneurship to the classrooms of the more than 650,000 FFA student members…
Annual Survey Finds 80% of Producers Believe Beef Checkoff Drives Beef Demand
…the Cattlemen’s Beef Board. To ensure unbiased results, the checkoff hires a research firm without any input from its contractors, including NCBA. In January 2019, Luce Research conducted this independent…
USDA Provides Funding to California to Support Projects that Protect Agriculture and Natural Resources
…support pest and disease mitigation research to protect ornamental nurseries; $239,477 to develop tools for the identification and detection of Graminicolous downy mildews, a group of plant pathogens that threaten…
Study Reveals Pigs Can Transmit FMD Prior to Signs of Sickness
…in ARS’s Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in Orient Point, New York. Prior to this research, it was believed that transmission of FMD did not…