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Soil at risk: Senate report outlines 25 recommendations for preserving Canada’s soil

Real Agriculture

The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry has released its report on the importance of soil health.

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USDA 1890 National Scholar Program Internships Helped Refine Goals

USDA Blog

Even as a child, Camille Pierre was interested in agriculture. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). With that seed of interest planted, she took agriculture classes throughout high school, grew and maintained her garden, showed livestock, and cross-bred tomatoes.

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USDA 1890 National Scholar Connects Field Work with Academics

USDA Blog

Jordyn Ash, a sophomore at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, is a USDA 1890 National Scholar studying plant and soil sciences. Ash applied to the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program during her senior year of high school.

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Nature and Scope of Farm Management

Agric4profits

Agriculture is regarded as the art and science of cultivating crops, raising livestock, provision of raw materials for agro-allied industries, and marketing of agricultural produce for mans use. Agricultural Economics involves the… Read More » Nature and Scope of Farm Management

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Investing in Farmers for Ecosystem Services: A Path to Healthy Soils

Food Tank

Farmers hold the key to restoring the worlds soils, says Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at the Ohio State University and a Goodwill Ambassador for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Azerbaijan.

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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism. We’re growing this for our people,” Schreiner affirms. “I

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Letter supporting farm bill orphan programs

NASDA

agricultural community and they require stable and predictable funding to continue their vital work. As you know, orphan programs often address niche or emerging areas within agriculture which may not receive the same level of attention or resources as other larger programs.

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