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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.
Christine Blasey Ford, 51, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, is a psychology professor at Palo Alto University. Christine Blasey Ford came forward Sunday as the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her more than three decades ago, an allegation that threatens to derail his confirmation.
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.
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President Donald Trump's nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was thrust into turmoil Sunday after the woman accusing him of high school-era sexual misconduct told her story publicly for the first time. Democrats immediately called for a delay in a key committee vote set for this later week and a Republican on the closely divided panel said he's "not comfortable" voting on the nomination without first hearing from the accuser.
California professor Christine Blasey says Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.
Mayors, governors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors and celebrities delivered a double-edged message Friday at the close of a climate summit in San Francisco: global warming is making the planet unliveable -- but we know how to fix it. "We are using the sky as an open sewer, it's insane," former US vice president Al Gore told the conference, noting that humanity belches 110 million tons of heat-trapping pollution into the atmosphere every day.
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.
Thousands of mayors, climate activists and business leaders from around the world descended Thursday on San Francisco to cheer on efforts to reduce global warming, even after U.S. President Donald J. Trump signaled his disdain for the issue. The Global Climate Action Summit, organized by California Gov. Jerry Brown, included a report that 27 major cities around the world have seen emissions decrease over a five-year period and are now at least 10 percent lower than their peak.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday asked for a U.S. intelligence assessment of the threat posed by technology that lets anyone make fake, but realistic, videos of real people saying things they've never said. The rising capabilities of the technology are fueling concerns it could be used to make a bogus video, for example, of an American politician accepting a bribe or of a U.S. or an adversarial foreign leader warning of an impending disaster.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday asked for a U.S. intelligence assessment of the threat posed by technology that lets anyone make fake, but realistic, videos of real people saying things they've never said. The rising capabilities of the technology are fueling concerns it could be used to make a bogus video, for example, of an American politician accepting a bribe or of a U.S. or an adversarial foreign leader warning of an impending disaster.