USDA Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

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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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Add These to Your Calendar: 9:00AM–10:00AM @ the IICA Pavilion: “Science & AgTech” daily morning coffee series, with food/agriculture ministers and experts. 5:00PM–6:00PM @ The Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas Pavilion facilitated by IICA: Happy hour collaborative celebration with COP climate negotiators and experts.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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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Agric4profits

APRIL 19, 2025

An online agriculture associate degrees is an excellent way for aspiring agriculturalists to gain the knowledge and skills needed to work in a variety of fields related to agriculture.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sustainable agriculture company Pivot Bio presented abstracts on its breakthrough crop nutrition technologies at the 2023 International Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).

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NASDA

JUNE 22, 2023

Letter Dear Chairs and Ranking Members, As organizations concerned about the future of food and agricultural science, the undersigned are writing to express our support for the America Grows Act of 2023 (S.1628), Food and agriculture remain a pillar of the U.S. Food and agriculture remain a pillar of the U.S.

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USDA Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Felipe Aburto is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, where he focuses on soil science and its impact on agriculture and the environment. Department of Agriculture (USDA) E. In 2023, he was chosen as a U.S. Kika De La Garza research fellow.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Joel Gruver, a professor of soil science and sustainable agriculture at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, has been chosen to receive the 2024 Sustainable Agriculture Achievement Award from Practical Farmers of Iowa.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Without well-nourished soil, “the global issues of climate change and food security cannot be addressed,” says soil scientist Dr. Rattan Lal. He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University. If we want good food, we need good soil.

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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

Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ Instead, Wahl took any agriculture-related class he could—soil science, crop growing, feed—and tapped into his family’s network of farmers to learn everything he needed to know about animal health.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Nina Prater, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Most people in the world of agriculture have heard of soil humus and have a general idea of what it is – a somewhat recalcitrant portion of organic matter that gives soil that nice dark color. But it turns out that the picture is much more complex than that.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

When I began studying ornamental horticulture and landscape design over 25 years ago, regenerative agriculture was just a twinkle in Gabe Brown’s eye and a glimpse of the future in the eyes of Allen Williams’, Ph.D.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

The three team members—Rudman, Oliver Aurand and Kevin Reiss, who met in 2023 on a nearby farm—bring backgrounds in soil science, anthropology and just over a decade of combined field hand experience. Friends Farm is not technically located on agricultural land. But the Friends Farm team isn’t counting on luck alone.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Sincerely, AgCountry Farm Credit Services AgCredit, ACA AgGeorgia Farm Credit AgriBank, FCB AgriBusiness Association of Kentucky Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Leaders of Michigan Agricultural Retailers Association Agriculture Energy Coalition Agri-Mark, Inc.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Bayer significantly strengthens its commitment to innovation in regenerative agriculture with a EUR 220 million investment in research and development (R&D) at its Monheim site. The new tractor will serve as an instrumental tool for both teaching and research in the agriculture and engineering programs.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

First-year results were unveiled this week by UIUC graduate student Darby Danzl at the 2023 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting , held jointly by the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America and the Soil Science Society of America.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

Letter Dear Chairman Harris, Chairman Hoeven, Ranking Member Bishop, and Ranking Member Shaheen: The undersigned organizations from academia, agriculture, and food stakeholder groups write to thank you for your continued support of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Fiscal Year 2025. agriculture.

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. In the spirit of back-to-school, we’ll be sharing Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum in a series of four lessons: 1. Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System; 2. Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

Letter Dear Chairman Harris, Chairman Hoeven, Ranking Member Bishop, and Ranking Member Shaheen: The undersigned organizations from academia, agriculture, and food stakeholder groups write to thank you for your continued support of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Fiscal Year 2025. agriculture.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Chris Tolles , CEO & Co-Founder , YARD STICK: “ Over the past year, our primary successes have been achievements in our research and development performance and advancing the core science of our technology. We’ll soon publish in a leading soil science journal. Todd Martin: “Agriculture is a unique industry.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We believe farmers of color, and other historically oppressed people, should have the opportunity to create and participate in a food and agriculture system that aligns with their needs, values, identities, knowledge systems, and communities.

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Caff

MARCH 28, 2022

CAFF does that for farmers– it sees and describes trends in soil science and productivity, it helps farms find new sales outlets, it makes the importance of both food safety and food security prominent in its work, and it provides financial assistance to small family farms.

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Agriculture for Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (TNAU, Coimbatore INDIA) Hi, this is Dr. Marco Thiruselvam with Green Wave Products and I am going to talk about growing tips with AgriPOWER HGDF. Marco Thiruselvam B.M.E. University Malaya, Malaysia); BMM (JAMA, Japan); Ph.D.,

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

While agriculture is a major contributor to climate change, it can also play a significant role in mitigating the impacts—and we at Civil Eats make a concerted effort to focus on solutions in our coverage. These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In the years between pitches, Plantix had begun a journey toward becoming one of the world’s most successful digital tools for agriculture, serving more than 30 million farmers who upload some 50,000 images to the platform a day. The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Harold grew up on the farm, and after graduating from high school, went on to pursue a degree in Agriculture at the University of Lethbridge. In 2006, he was awarded a prestigious Nuffield Canada Agricultural Scholarship. “My They have a very advanced group of people working on soil science,” he says.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

At Civil Eats, we immerse ourselves in food and agriculture books throughout the year to deepen our knowledge, stay up to date, and produce robust coverage of the books making an impact in the food and ag space. A condensed version of this gift guide was first sent to Civil Eats members in The Deep Dish newsletter.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 16, 2025

Tomandls cows spend their days rotating between different pastures of perennial grasses, an approach that greatly reduces his feed costs while also building organic matter in the soil to help fight climate change. full_link READ MORE Why are restaurants selling beef from dairy cows? Photography via Shutterstock.

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