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United Fresh LIVE! is coming in mid-June, and The Packer’s Tom Karst visited May 1 with John Toner with the United Fresh Produce Association about the trend-setting virtual event.
Cora Heacox has joined Germains Seed Technology, Gilroy, Calif., as senior sales coordinator for the North America horticultural commercial team.
Federal officials on Monday released an ambitious wildfire-fighting and restoration plan to protect a wide swath of sagebrush country in much of the West that supports cattle ranching and is home to an imperiled bird.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is seeking new proposals for cutting-edge projects that will provide new conservation opportunities through its competitive Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program.
Leaders honored in Des Moines work to fortify the world’s crops with needed nutrition
“They tend to be really good hard-working people. I would love to see them have a path to citizenship.”
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California Rangeland Trust completes mitigation agreement that preserves an environmental relationship between California tiger salamanders and cattle.
‘Super haylage’—with a NDF undigested 30 score of less than 15%--means more milk.
“Ag and food production as we know it in the U.S. is perhaps at a far greater risk than we even realize.”
Final Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholders Summit speakers offer proven tactics and advice to attendees on transparency and crisis management.
Recent trials prove Cargill’s proprietary feeding solutions help dairy cows better endure stress while dealing with their heat load.
Lester Brown has spent his career making shrewd projections about the food, water, and energy people need to survive, and pushing governments to respond.
Beef producers need to think outside the box.
More than a decade ago, retail titan Walmart announced three long-term goals – it wanted to run on 100% renewable energy, create zero waste and sell products that sustain resources and the environment. Here’s how U.S. rice producers could benefit.
Number found working illegally nearly triples in three years.
If it becomes law, it would put California at the forefront nationally of farm labor pay and mark a victory in the fight to improve farmworkers’ rights in a decade’s old movement launched by Cesar Chavez.
Researchers at the University of Florida are looking at ways to breed and grow blue tangs in captivity to not deplete the species in the wild.
Cover crops can greatly benefit your farming operation, but they require “many considerations” before making that optimal selection, according to Kansas State University Extension researchers Anita Dille and DeAnn Presley. The two recently tackled this subject in K-State’s “eUpdate” newsletter.
This million investment is in addition to existing funding for programs like the Environmental Quality Initiatives Program (EQIP), Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
Most people saw an abandoned intercity parking lot. Benjamin Kant saw opportunity.
Beef’s documented sustainability improvements offer an opportunity to engage consumers.
Many hands make light the load. This sentiment has inspired hundreds of volunteers to participate in the twice-annual “Wabash Sampling Blitz,” which collects water samples from 206 sites across the Wabash River Watershed.
The death of meaningful U.S. immigration reform, done in by Washington partisanship and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s incendiary comments on foreigners, is leaving crops withering in the field and the farm lobby with nowhere to turn as a labor shortage intensifies.
Mark Diederichs wiped a splatter of manure from his arm as four Hispanic workers guided the next 44 cows into stalls, swabbed each animal’s teats with neon-blue disinfectant and attached computer-controlled milking-machine units.
Do you agree with the following statement: “I have access to all the information I want about where my food comes from, how it’s produced and its safety”? A new study from the Center for Food Integrity (CFI) says only a minority of consumers do.
Many dairy farms have experienced shortages in forage supplies from drought conditions over the past two years. These shortages have resulted in wildly swinging rations.
Feeding high levels of forage requires a positive mindset of the entire farm team.