The Georgia Heirs Property Law Center released a new publication, Community Planning Handbook: Reducing the Impact of Heirs Property & Natural Disasters in Georgia. The 28-page handbook is available online and is designed to help foster community resilience by raising awareness of how heirs property hinders disaster recovery and how heirs property resolution can be […]

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Farm and Ranch Enterprise has installed an in-conduit hydropower system that integrates sustainable energy production with advanced center-pivot irrigation technology across its 7,700 acres of irrigated farmland. The installation consists of five similar in-conduit hydropower sites strategically positioned within the gravity-fed center-pivot irrigation system that, together, generate more than 115 […]

A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters, and importers in international markets. Addressing Climate Change Risks in Import Dependent and Major Food Producing Countries notes that climate studies indicate […]

A study published by University of Southern California researchers in Nature Sustainability shows a strong correlation between pesticide use and declining sightings of wild bees, with appearances of some species dropping as much as 56% in areas of high pesticide use compared to areas with no pesticide use. Using more than 200,000 unique observations of […]

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) awarded $9.7 million for 13 grant projects through the Organic Market Development Grant (OMDG) program. These projects will support the development of new and existing organic markets to increase the consumption of domestic organic agricultural products. With this final award announcement, AMS has now awarded nearly $85 million to 106 […]