USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities effort is expanding markets for America’s climate-smart commodities, leveraging the greenhouse gas benefits of climate-smart commodity production, and providing direct, meaningful benefits to production agriculture, including for small and underserved producers. An interactive online map acts as a tool for producers who are looking for opportunities in their state. It’s […]

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the hydroponic germination of lettuce using aquaponic wastewater combined with liquid residual from hydrothermal liquefaction, an emerging technology that converts wet biomass to biocrude oil through a high-temperature, high-pressure process. This liquid residual is high in nutrients and would otherwise require wastewater treatment. In this study, solutions […]

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, are studying the impact of water birds and fish on flooded rice fields. Rice fields are flooded to degrade the rice straw so that the field can be replanted. This flooding creates important habitat for water birds and can provide habitat for fish, as well. Researchers are testing […]

USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced that it is expanding crop insurance options for specialty and organic growers by allowing enterprise units by organic farming practice, adding enterprise unit eligibility for several crops, and making additional policy updates. These updates, which are detailed online, are effective beginning with the 2025 crop year. RMA is continuing […]

The Colorado Department of Agriculture and Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) are providing additional funding of $28,000 to the Middle Park Stockgrowers Association to continue supporting their community efforts of on-the-ground non-lethal predator deterrents. The funding will help producers implement non-lethal controls such as night range riders and fladry. In addition, CPW has added five […]