The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. And these think tanks continue to crank out their nonsense. They don’t get fired. They just keep going. The average U.S.

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NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

State departments of agriculture, like USDA, are dedicated to protecting farmers, farmworkers, and the workforce throughout the entire supply chain. As USDA continues to respond to this outbreak, we urge you to prioritize animal health and human health in the same manner you have dealt with H5N1 in poultry for many years.

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

Veterinary diagnostician to continue service to animal agriculture in new role The post Thompson named Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Canyon resident director appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Since the inception of the VMLRP in FY2010, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has made 795 awards as new and renewal service agreements. In that time, NIFA received 2,061 applications from 1,451 unique applicants.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

Agriculture is one of the most important industries in the world. While farming may be your first thought when it comes to agricultural jobs, there are actually hundreds of different specialties and niches within the industry, from scientists to economists and more. It provides us with food, clothing and shelter.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“He said, ‘I’ll help you with school, but my one stipulation is that you cannot take any animal science classes. Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ I feel a lot of encouragement that a lot of new bright individuals are interested in agriculture,” says Wahl. “It

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture will host the 13th Annual Antibiotics Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia from November 7-9, 2023. Kylie Konyn, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student who is majoring in dairy science, has earned the 2023-24 Loper scholarship. Advancing Animal Agriculture.”

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Dairy Forage Research Center in partnership with UW–Madison CALS, the new facility and its associated buildings will house robotic milking systems, chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, an advanced animal nutrition unit and state-of-the-art laboratories for agronomy and dairy science, as well as offices and a visitor center.

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Food Tank

JULY 19, 2024

When his agriculture professors taught about conventional hog production, he would ask questions like, “What about letting these animals get outside a little bit?” These big universities, the agricultural departments are pretty much paid off by Big Agriculture,” says Roberts. According to the U.S.

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Agwired

MARCH 4, 2024

The Animal Agriculture Alliance announced the opening of registration for its 2024 Stakeholders Summit, themed “Ready, Set, Solve! Advancing Animal Agriculture.” The technology was designed by researchers in Purdue University’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Department of Animal Sciences.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) will accept nominations and applications for the fourth Cohort of the Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders through November 17.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Without NPPC’s leadership and science-based voice in these discussions, by 2030, the UN could have implemented a 30 percent global on-farm reduction in antimicrobials, as well as limits on the use of certain antibiotics in animal agriculture.

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Agwired

JANUARY 2, 2024

Over 500 international animal ag tech leaders will engage in business critical discussions on implementing climate-smart farming practices, extracting the most value from animals through PLF platforms, and investigating the right funding models for innovators in the meat and dairy sectors. Poultry & Egg Harold E.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) announced it has joined the steering committee of the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA). 15 and winning teams will be recognized at the American Dairy Science Association’s annual meeting in June. The deadline entry is Jan.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The documentary includes interviews with experts in agriculture and environmental science, farmers and others to look at the complex and often surprising ways in which cattle impact our world and Lyons says they hope that combined with the website WorldWithoutCows.com it will have an impact.

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2024

The third class participating in the National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s (NIAA) Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders has been selected and will convene for their first session in Chicago in February 2024.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part of the problem is that we can only test for about 70 of these 14,000,” said Kyla Bennett, director of Science Policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), in a recent Food & Water Watch webinar. “So, A report from FoodPrint says that agricultural land across the country could be compromised.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Department of Agricultures (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the start of its National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS) , which builds on measures taken by USDA and federal and state partners since the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in dairy cattle was first detected in March 2024.

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Agwired

JANUARY 17, 2024

Rabobank’s RaboResearch F&A group is a global team of more than 80 analysts who monitor and evaluate global market events that affect food and agriculture worldwide. He brings a hands-on farming and livestock background combined with 10 years of industry experience in market research and data analysis and agricultural marketing.

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Agwired

AUGUST 21, 2023

Established in 2007, the scholarship recognizes outstanding graduate students pursuing careers in meat science and animal agriculture. The Animal Agriculture Alliance’s 2023 College Aggies Online (CAO) program kicks off on September 11, beginning with a dairy theme during week one. Farr Scholarship program.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Advanced Agrilytics , a leading agricultural solutions provider, announced that its Board of Directors appointed Kenny Avery as the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The new 22,000 square-foot facility is the home of the school’s AGCO Agriculture Service Technician Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.)

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Agwired

JUNE 24, 2024

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) has released the white paper from the 13th Annual Antibiotics Symposium – Thriving in a Changing Landscape. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service.

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Agwired

JUNE 7, 2024

Johnson recently graduated from Iowa State University, where she studied Agricultural Communications, International Agriculture and Journalism. Agritecture and CEAg World , a business venture of Meister Media Worldwide , are thrilled to announce their partnership on the world’s largest Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Census.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This December through July 2024, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) are partnering to conduct a national study focusing on sheep and lamb health and management in the United States.

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Agwired

JULY 24, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). After a yearlong search, Purdue Animal Sciences has selected Hattie Duncan to lead its livestock judging team as well as the department’s newly formed livestock judging program. There were 95.9 million head of cattle and calves on U.S.

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Agwired

APRIL 8, 2024

These scholarships are merit-based and open to all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at an accredited university who are majoring in animal, meat, poultry, or food sciences; enrolled in a culinary arts program; or are interested in pursuing a career in the meat industry. Simplot Animal Sciences announced Samuel G.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced progress on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) comprehensive approach to address the many, complex competition issues in agricultural markets and create a fairer playing field for small- and mid-size farmers. Department of Agriculture conservation programs.

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Agwired

JULY 29, 2024

The new resource defines 16 material issue areas identified as important for consideration in animal food industry sustainability efforts. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) released a new economic contribution report detailing the significant impact America’s pig farmers have on the United States’ agricultural and overall economy.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Dr. Karcher is an associate professor of animal sciences at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and an adjunct associate professor of animal sciences at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. There were 87.2

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Agwired

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Experimental lines of field corn developed by a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists will usher in new commercial hybrids offering high-methionine grain.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

However, the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture is one activity that has driven the development of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In fact, across agriculture, more ionophores are given to animals than any other antibiotic. In the U.S.,

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Agwired

JUNE 11, 2024

The DGAC—a committee of 20 nationally recognized nutrition and public health experts—is currently reviewing the current body of nutrition science and developing a scientific report to inform the federal government’s development of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). The DGAC is expected to publish their report in late 2024.

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Agwired

JUNE 3, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) celebrated the 100-year anniversary of Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory and its past and present contributions to the livestock industry and scientific community. Representative Pete Aguilar (CA-33) was in attendance. The Add Milk!

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Agwired

MARCH 18, 2024

The farmer-funded National Dairy Council (NDC) organized the meeting, titled “Undercover Nutrition: A Symposium Decrypting Food and Dairy Matrix Science,” in Washington D.C., In response to growing domestic and international demand, Phibro Animal Health Corporation is expanding its manufacturing facility to support Animate.

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Agwired

AUGUST 14, 2023

Wei Liao, a professor in MSU’s Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and the director of MSU’s Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center, led a demonstration workshop July 19 showcasing the novel research linking dairy operations to the auto industry.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2024

Concentrated animal agriculture is high in emissions because of things such as improper manure management and land used to grow feed. The United Nations, the Science Based Targets Initiative , and others are reaching a shared, science-backed understanding of what “net zero” can mean in the corporate world.

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