…a healthy hive of bees, and spoke about how to maintain a healthy hive. They also touched on the fact that honey bees are essential to a successful almond crop….
NACD Welcomes Bill To Keep Red Tape At Bay
…to enhance transparency around the government’s granting and contracting processes. Producers committed to enhancing water and air quality, wildlife habitat, and soil health were never supposed to get tangled up…
Attorney Comments on Ruling in Duarte/WOTUS Lawsuit
A U.S. District Court judge rules that soil is a pollutant, a plow is a point source of pollution, and that sometimes dry land is navigable water. This is the…
National Weed Your Garden Day
…out plant roots and steal the nutrients that are needed for the plants to grow nice and healthy. Helpful tips on reducing weeds in your garden: Cover the soil along…
Dolcini Tours Farms
…pulling a no-till, cross-slot drill across Double J’s wheat fields. The no-till drill is used to reduce the carbon footprint by minimizing soil erosion, conserving soil moisture and reducing the…
Nobody Exempt from ACP Quarantines
…tree or product falls under those rules. “All of these rules apply to everyone,” Kinoshita says. “Yeah, it might have just been two trees, but that’s two trees in soil….
DIY Potting Mix
…the medium plants are growing in. Growing in the earth and growing in pots is quite a different thing, and the soil used with each method is, in turn, also…
Cotton Growers Forced to Adapt
…have the best climatic conditions and soil in the world but because of the circumstances here we have had to adapt and learn to grow under these conditions.” Isom says…
Sec. Vilsack Announces $16.8 Million in Grants
…Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., $100,000 Mountain Comprehensive Health Corp., Whitesburg, Ky., $72,360 Michigan Physical Fitness, Health and Sports Foundation, Lansing, Mich., $29,809 The Fortune Society, Inc., Long Island, N.Y., $100,000 Mid-Ohio…
Building a Medicinal Garden
…vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other nutrients well tuned for keeping the body sufficiently bolstered. However, there are some plants, especially certain herbs and spices, that excel in human health. Lots…
Agri View: Meals Without Meat
Everett Griner talks about eating healthy meals without meat in today’s Agri View. Meals Without Meat From: American Heart Association Meals Without Meat Going meatless at a meal every now…
Bats and Agriculture
…per year. This study did not even consider what the indirect costs of “replacing” bats with pesticides would be in terms of potential health and pollution threats from greater levels…
2016 GEELA Awards
…State Transportation Agency, the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the Government Operations Agency, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, and the Health and Human Services Agency. Contact For any…
Plant Health and Resilience Research
USDA Awards More Than $14.5 Million to Support Plant Health and Resilience Research The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded more than $14.5 million in grants to support research into…