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The Extension Services in Bee, Goliad, Karnes, Refugio and Wilson counties will host its second annual Soil Health Seminar from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Julie Wimberly Memorial Homemaking Building at the Goliad County Fairgrounds, located at 935 S. Jefferson St., in Goliad.
USDA ANNOUNCES $102.7 MILLION INVESTMENT TO EXPAND MARKETS FOR SPECIALTY CROP Sep. 19, 2018 Source: USDA news release Under Secretary Greg Ibach today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $102.7 million to increase opportunities for farmers, ranchers and other growers across the country through five grant programs. The funding supports a variety of locally-led projects intended to expand markets for local food promotion and specialty crops.
Two new studies have confirmed that farmers can win both ways, achieving a boost in harvests and helping to slow climate change. One says that they can successfully farm with techniques that can help slow global warming and add to the store of carbon sequestered in the soils around the globe.
Shengmin Sang, PhD, a food scientist with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has received a $2.8 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institutes of Food and Agriculture. The funding will be used by Sang and his fellow researchers to identify biomarkers for whole grain wheat and oats.
Sep 17, 2018--As the country celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, recently released government data indicate that Hispanics bear the brunt of hunger and poverty despite the recent gains in the national economy. Data released earlier by the U.S. Census indicates that 18.3 percent of Hispanics or 10.8 million people lived in poverty in 2017.
Drones are quickly expanding beyond their traditional strongholds of the hobbyist and the military, with new applications creating a beneficial environment for component suppliers, say Brad Slingerlend and Denny Fish, co-portfolio managers of the US-based Janus Henderson Global Technology strategy. Commercial applications are driving growth in drones, which will create a $100 billion market by 2020, according to Goldman Sachs.
The five schools will receive a $77,650 grant to participate in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, the News Gazette reports. The program lets kids grab a fruit or vegetable as a snack at least twice a week during the school day.
Bob Evans Farms is recalling 46,734 pounds of sausage links because they may contain "extraneous materials," including hard plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday. The Ohio-based sausage maker identified five varieties of their products with the potential issue and are asking consumers to throw out or return the packages to their local retailer.
Based on September 1 conditions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says North Dakota's soybean harvest is forecast at 236 million bushels, down 2 percent from last year. Soybean acres for harvest are pegged at 6.55 million, 7 percent below 2017.
Breaking off from a tour of dairy operations on a farm in upstate New York, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tramps across a muddy path to take a sample of sweet corn from an adjacent field. With a wide smile, he shucks the ear and takes a bite, then passes it around to others in the crowd before getting back to his mission: selling farmers on the merits of President Donald Trump's trade war.
People fill containers with water funneled with pipes from a mountain stream in Utuado, Puerto Rico, nearly one month after Hurricane Maria struck on October 19, 2017. Shortages of food and water in areas with only 21.6 percent of grid electricity and 71.58 percent of running water restored.
Conservative hard Brexiteers have released proposals which they believe could allow the UK to leave the EU's single market and customs union without the need for a hard border in Ireland. The European Research Group of Tory backbenchers led by Jacob Rees-Mogg believe the Government has allowed the border question to become a roadblock to achieving a Canada-style Free Trade Agreement with the EU.
Food security advocates are worried that legislation working its way through Congress could cause thousands of Alaskans, particularly in rural areas, to lose "food stamp" benefits and add an untenable layer of bureaucracy for the already-strapped state government. Congressional leaders are working to find a compromise between House and Senate farm bills before the prior version expires at the end of the month.
Cargill is recalling about 12 tons of ground beef for possible E. coli contamination, according to the Department of Agriculture. The ground beef products from Cargill's Fort Morgan, Colo., plant were produced Aug. 16, 2018, and shipped to warehouses in California and Colorado.
REUTERS: A Cargill Meat Solutions plant in Colorado is recalling more than 25,000 pounds of ground beef that could be contaminated with E. Coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The meat carries an "EST.
Migrant workers pass freshly picked watermelon down a line to be loaded up in a produce trailer at the Mandujano Brothers Produce's watermelon field on Oct. 3, 2017, in Coyanosa, Texas. Dane Lang, a co-owner of Yarrabee Farms outside of Brooklyn, Iowa, stood outside his family farm this week and lamented that he had employed the undocumented immigrant charged in the murder of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.
The speakers were 1st District U.S. Rep. David B. McKinley, Norm Bailey of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture and Dwayne O'Dell of the West Virginia Farm Bureau. Rocky Peck was master of ceremonies.
After examining more than 2,800 corn and soybean samples, Pro Farmer analysts are estimating national corn yield will reach 177.3 bu. per acre and soybean yield at 53.0 bu.
Scouts on the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop tour are heading home Friday morning after a week of scouting fields across the Midwest. Pro Farmer released results from its samples in Minnesota.
The U.K. would run out of food by this time next year if a no-deal Brexit forced the nation to rely solely on its own produce, a farmers group warned. British food supplies would be exhausted by Aug. 7, 2019, if the country ate only its own products from Jan. 1, the National Farmers' Union said Tuesday, highlighting the U.K.'s reliance on imports from the European Union and other regions.