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The Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops has announced a partnership with CropTrak to accelerate adoption of the Stewardship Calculator 2.0 across the specialty food supply chain.

Jacobs Farm del Cabo is making significant progress in its ClimateLab™ efforts, a program focused on building a more inclusive, climate-resilient food system.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the theme and program of the 98th Agricultural Outlook Forum, a virtual event that will be held on February 24-25, 2022.

Growers have many ways they approach sustainability, and the top two are soil testing and crop rotation.

Growers and consumers disagree markedly on who is most responsible for leading and promoting sustainability practices and policies.

Equitable Food Initiative is working to expand from primarily business-to-business marketing to business-to-consumer outreach as it aims to provide support and added value to retail partners and EFI-certified growers.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today an investment of more than $146 million in sustainable agricultural research projects aimed at improving a robust, resilient, climate-smart food and agricultural system.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released its climate adaptation and resilience plan describing how USDA will prepare for current and future impacts of climate change.

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the USDA to find ways to sustain irrigated agriculture while improving groundwater quantity and quality.

“What the new plan would do, is guarantee decades more conflict and litigation. “