Meat processors play an important role for small producers in communities across the West, reports Western Farm Press. Once-plentiful local butcher shops disappeared over time, but when the pandemic revealed supply-chain weaknesses, interest in local processing revived. Producers may face challenges in finding a local processor, but small processors, in turn, are facing challenges in […]

Research into ancient low-water-use agricultural practices by Bar-Ilan University in Israel is offering insights into how modern farming could succeed in times of water scarcity. A study published in Environmental Archaeology began with an exploration of Plot-and-Berm agroecosystems located along Israel’s Mediterranean coast but expanded into investigation of how traditional sunken groundwater-harvesting agroecosystems were used […]

Texas A&M University will work with the University of Arkansas, the University of Georgia, and other institutions and agencies in a four-year, $7 million project designed to improve muscadine grapes for fresh market sales and wine. USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture provided funding for this project that will support grape growers in propagating […]

Researchers at Penn State published work in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science, showing that a concentrated sugar solution was as effective as antibiotics in treating mild cases of a common uterine infection in dairy cattle, called clinical metritis. The discovery has the potential to reduce reliance on antibiotics and ultimately help combat the growing […]

Penn State University published a study in the Journal of Melittology that explored the heat tolerance for a variety of species of bees and flies in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. The research team notes that flies play an important, and often unrecognized, role as pollinators, second only to bees. They are the […]