Cheers to Robert Mondavi Winery’s 50th Anniversary
Tim Mondavi, front, wearing a white shirt, speaks to a guest during the 50th Anniversary of Robert Mondavi Winery. The late Robert Mondavi started the business with a modest loan.
Category Archives: Agriculture
USDA Funds 81 Distance Learning and Telemedicine Projects in 32 States
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund 81 Distance Learning and Telemedicine projects in 32 states. These projects will help connect rural communities with medical and educational experts in other parts of the country, increasing access to health care, substance misuse treatment and advanced educational opportunities.
Congress OKs bill requiring first GMO food labels
Consumers wanting to know if their foods contain genetically modified ingredients will be able to find out for the first time. Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama on Thursday that would require most food packages to carry a text label, a symbol or an electronic code readable by smartphone that indicates whether the food contains genetically modified ingredients, or GMOs.
Troxler visits Cherry Farm to announce designation
N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler speaks to a group of people representing agriculture, the military and the community during a Sentinel Landscape presentation Tuesday at Cherry Research Farm. N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler welcomes Brig.
Illinois gets $1.4M grant to help seasonal farmworkers
Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced the U.S. Department of Labor grant on Monday. It's part of $81 million in funds being distributed nationwide as part of the department's farmworker jobs program.
Farm Journal Foundation Congratulates Congress On Enhancing Global Food Security
FARM JOURNAL FOUNDATION CONGRATULATES CONGRESS ON ENHANCING GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY Jul. 11, 2016 Source: Farm Journal Foundation news release On behalf of the Farm Journal Foundation, our Farmers Feeding the World leaders across the United States and more than twenty thousand HungerU student advocates, we would like to thank Congress for passing the Global Food Security Act of 2016. This bi-partisan bill affirms U.S. leadership in enhancing global food security, primarily by helping farmers in developing countries produce more of their own food to improve their livelihoods.
Wish for Water: Grant provides help to those without water
Marilyn La Combe stood outside an outbuilding at the Evansville Fire Department, dropped a quarter into the slot and jiggled the handle until water came out of the short hose. She gets about three minutes worth of water for each quarter, but the pressure is lower in the afternoon than it is in the morning, she said.
USDA FoodKeeper App to feature new food safety tools – Spanish and Portuguese functionality
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced new updates to its popular FoodKeeper application, which will increase the app's food safety features while empowering more consumers help reduce food waste in the U.S. The app has been updated to include information in Spanish and Portuguese, making it easier for Spanish and Portuguese speakers to use its storage recommendations for 400+ items covered by the tool, including various types of baby food, dairy products and eggs, meat, poultry, produce, seafood, and more. The next planned update, coming in September, will allow the app to alert users of food recalls and include instructional videos on proper handling and storage of food.
Mudslinging not serving the interests of First District Kansans
If politics is an ugly game, then there will be few games uglier than the race for U.S. House of Representatives for Kansas' Big First district.
FoodKeeper app to feature new food safety tools
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced new updates to its popular FoodKeeper application, which will increase the app's food safety features while empowering more consumers help reduce food waste in the U.S. The app has been updated to include information in Spanish and Portuguese, making it easier for Spanish and Portuguese speakers to use its storage recommendations for 400 plus items covered by the tool, including various types of baby food, dairy products and eggs, meat, poultry, produce, seafood and more. The next planned update, coming in September, will allow the app to alert users of food recalls and include instructional videos on proper handling and storage of food.
Public Health Matters Blog – Global Health Security: How is the U.S. doing?
The Joint External Evaluation Team joins U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture colleagues in front of the Humphrey Building, Washington DC, May 2016 At first glance, this photo taken on a set of concrete steps in Washington, D.C., may look like an ordinary group shot-but it took an extraordinary series of events to make it happen. The photo shows colleagues from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture standing alongside a team of 15 international experts from 13 different countries, known as the Joint External Evaluation Team .
Roach Ag Marketing Announces Its Annual Outlook And Strategy Conference Series
ROACH AG MARKETING ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL OUTLOOK AND STRATEGY CONFERENCE SERIES Jul. 6, 2016 Source: Roach Ag Marketing Ltd sent via AgPR --the news distribution service for agriculture Roach Ag Marketing Ltd is sponsoring 13 seminars on the 2016 market outlook and pricing strategies throughout the Midwest and Mid-South this month. Roach Ag Marketing has grown dramatically in recent years and company founder John Roach and company President Brian Roach are regular guests on Iowa Public TV's popular "Market to Market" farm show hosted by Mike Pearson.
A look at genetically modified foods and the fight they are facing
It's a food fight in Congress over genetically modified foods. The Senate is moving ahead on bipartisan legislation that would for the first time require food packages to carry labels listing genetically modified ingredients.
Product Focus: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Yamaha Motor Corp. recently opened an office at the airport in Napa County, Calif., for spraying agricultural land in Napa and Sonoma counties with its RMAX. These small aircraft can be used to assess the condition of vines using visual, infrared and near-infrared cameras more economically than manned aircraft and have other advantages such as being able to fly closer to vines or being used regularly to provide a pattern of vineyard development.
GMO Labeling Ripples Through Food Industry
If your holiday road trip takes you to Vermont this weekend, you'll be entering a state that stepped first into the foray of requiring labeling of food containing Genetically Modified Organisms. But for how long remains the question.
D45 students to receive free lunches
All Barnwell District 45 students will receive free breakfast and lunch next school year, which translates into a savings of $900 annually per student. The school board approved participating in the Community Eligibility Provision .
Boone receives bids on intake construction
Representatives from the town of Boone, engineering firm W.K. Dickson and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development office on June 30 opened sealed bids for construction of the South Fork New River intake project and renovation of the town's water treatment plant. The new intake facility is planned on the South Fork New River in the Brownwood community near the Ashe County border.
Du Brook Dairy Offsetting as much as 50% Energy Demand with New…
We talked to several solar providers, and Sun Valley Solar Solutions was the most responsive and helpful...Plus, their experience with the agriculture community gave us confidence we were in the right hands. At Du Brook Dairy in Casa Grande, Arizona, a 314-kilowatt SunPower solar power system designed and installed by Sun Valley Solar Solutions has reduced the Dairy's reliance on purchased utility grid power by as much as 50%, and is projected to save more than $520,000 in the first 20 years.
Millers, bakers brace for bumpy transition to new crop
With the Kansas wheat harvest nearly two-thirds completed, indications were the crop's average protein will be low this year, perhaps historically low. A low-protein hard red winter wheat crop certainly would not be without precedent, but it will provide challenges to millers and bakers who for the past couple of years engineered fairly smooth transitions to working with primarily new crop supply.
Bar area and entrance to Morton’s The Steakhouse in the new Saratoga…
The state's decision to do nothing about a controversial pesticide linked to a global honeybee die-off has some environmentalists like Bill Cooke buzzing mad. A report on the honeybee health crisis, issued last week by two state agencies after about a year of work, concluded that research remains "unclear" on the impact of a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids on massive honeybee die-offs known as colony collapse disorder.