…totaling $7.6 million for research to help manage pests and beneficial species that affect agricultural crops. The funding is made possible through NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program,…
Inconclusive HLB Tests Remind Growers of Disease Threat
…Research Board and University of California Cooperative Extension combined to bring California citrus growing areas an educational seminar, and it started in Exeter for Central Valley growers. Research Entomologist, and…
Wiping Out Bacteria with Nanoparticle-Cotton Fibers
…and her team plan to develop and evaluate antimicrobial fabric floor wipes. Read more about this research in the June 2017 issue of AgResearch magazine. from USDA Agricultural Research Service…
California to List Glyphosate as Cancer-Causing
…act by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer that said glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic” in a controversial ruling in 2015. Listing glyphosate as a known carcinogen…
NIFA Announces $4.3 Million for Higher Education Support
…University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, $139,604 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, $139,604 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, $126,167 University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, Kentucky, $731,296 University of Kentucky Research…
Almond Board: Start Planning to Lessen Harvest Dust
…and pickup machines can create a significant amount of airborne particles (PM10). Almond Board of California–funded research has developed numerous methods growers can use to reduce dust at harvest, such…
Ag Committee Features University Leaders in Agricultural Research
…research and scientific advancement. Following the hearing, Chairman Conaway made the below remarks: Conaway “Research is the driving force behind American agricultural innovation. Farmers and ranchers have long depended on…
UC ANR Vice President Testifies Before House Ag Committee
…June 22 about the importance of university agricultural research and innovation. Humiston speaking to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture In her address, Humiston highlighted the fact that…
Celebrating Dairy Month in June
…nutritious milk while protecting the land on which they live and work. They also fund research that leads to dairy product innovation. Few things are as refreshing, or nutritious, on…
Nitrogen Levels in Navel Oranges
…of their annual nitrogen requirement foliarly, in pre-bloom and post-bloom low-biuret urea sprays. Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor Craig Kallsen has been researching the amount of nitrogen a mature navel orange…
Mexico Adopts E10 Fuels
…private sector, research scientists and social interest groups. Mexico’s regulators moved in August 2016 to allow ethanol in local fuel supplies, except in its three largest metropolitan areas. U.S. grain…
If It Smells Like a Petunias or Shampoo, It Might Be a Pesticide
…methyl benzoate could control Varroa mites, the No. 1 problem of managed honey bees today. You can read more about this research in the June 2017 issue of AgResearch magazine….
Feed a Bee Announces Coast-to-Coast Recipients for $500,000 Pollinator Forage Initiative
…Tennessee, Tennessee IVM Partners, Inc., Tennessee Borderlands Research Institute, Texas City of New Braunfels PARD, Texas Gideon Lincecum Chapter – Texas Master Naturalists, Texas Utah State University Extension, Utah Belmont…
USDA Reorganization Takes Shape
…University of Minnesota and received his M.S. in 1997 and Ph.D. in 2000. His research has spanned a wide range of issues, including biofuels policy, water quality and quantity policies,…