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eOrganic partnered with Tilth Alliance to record the Transition to Organic sessions at the 50th Anniversary Tilth conference held in November. With funding provided by the USDA Transition to Organic (TOPP) program, these recordings are now publicly available on the eOrganic YouTube channel. The four sessions, each around an hour long, include a panel with […]
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis sampled weedy rice, a relative of cultivated rice, from fields in Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. They found that 57% of 201 samples were resistant to the imidazolinone family of herbicides. Rice growers began planting cultivars that were engineered to be herbicide-resistant, to help them manage the problem of […]
Scientists from Cornell University published results of their global analysis of nutrient recycling in Nature Sustainability. They concluded that many countries could become self-sufficient for fertilizer if they would recycle all human and animal urine and feces to agriculture. The nutrients found globally in human and poorly utilized livestock excreta represent 13% of crop and […]
Based on results of producer surveys conducted by University of California researchers, a statewide team has begun a project designed to help California ranchers stay strong through extreme weather variability. The researchers surveyed and interviewed nearly 50 ranchers to collect their wisdom about how they survived the drought from 2012-2016. After publishing the results of […]
The Northeast Regional Food Business Center has awarded up to $100,000 each for 13 projects that will offer business technical assistance, value- and supply-chain coordination, market development, and more to support small- and mid-sized food and agricultural businesses. In addition, four organizations received grants to build regional or sub-regional technical assistance provider networks that will […]
USDA announced a $1.13 billion investment to support local and regional food systems, building upon the Department’s previous investments in the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement (LFPA) and Local Food for Schools (LFS) programs. This funding will allow states, territories, and federally recognized Tribes to purchase wholesome, locally produced foods for distribution within their […]
A new, free publication is available online from Farmers’ Legal Action Group (FLAG). Farmers’ Guide to County Committee Elections in the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) explains the rules governing the election of FSA County Committee members. Because FSA County Committees exercise significant power over the delivery of FSA services at the county level, FLAG […]
Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed an online Agroforestry Suitability Decision Support Tool for the Midwest. The tool can assist program administrators in identifying areas that are most suitable to prioritize for developing agroforestry, based on environmental, social, and economic criteria. Users can define the criteria they want to use for modeling the […]
The Wallace Center’s Food Systems Leadership Network (FLSN) released a new report, Farm to Food Assistance: A Model for Values-Based, Equity Centered Approaches to Transforming the Food System. This report is the culmination of four years of research, peer learning, and field building. The 47-page report makes the case for how farm to food assistance […]
A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed supplement in pellet form reduced their methane emissions by almost 40%. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was the first in the world to test the effect of seaweed on grazing […]
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