NASDA

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Press Release WHO: National Association of State Departments of Agriculture CEO, several NASDA members and a NASDA industry guest will host a press conference to discuss learned opportunities and challenges to agricultural trade between the U.S. and Cuba on Feb. 21, 2024, following a NASDA-led trade mission to the country. Press Conference Participants: Ted McKinney, CEO, NASDA Amanda Beal, Commissioner, Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry Bryan Hurlburt, Commissioner

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Senate’s amendments to Bill C-234 in December could result in farmers paying $910 million more in carbon tax, according to updated analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO). After several weeks of contentious debate, a narrow majority of Senators voted to limit the proposed carbon tax exemption for natural gas and propane used on.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is taking the lead on bringing dietary guidelines into the 21st Century. It is calling for national dietary guidelines not only to be nutrient-based and food-based, but food systems-based. Food systems-based guidelines extend beyond food-based guidelines that “provide advice on foods, food groups and dietary patterns to provide the required nutrients to the general public to promote overall health and prevent chronic diseases.

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Wildfires leave damages across more than 1 million acres Donations of hay, feed, fencing supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the devastating wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle. The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is establishing Animal Supply Points in several.

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Agri-tech

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A genetically modified purple tomato first produced by Norfolk scientists nearly two decades ago has been enthusiastically adopted by home gardeners after it was made available for purchase in the United States. Seeds of the high-anthocyanin purple tomato are in strong demand, with more than 1,200 packets selling within 48 hours of launch, and 9,600 sold in the first week.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How can we best understand and relate to the farmer protests which are going on all over Europe, including down the road from our farm in West Wales? The regional TV news on Monday 20 th February ran a big piece featuring Mark Drakeford, the Welsh First Minister, Lesley Griffiths, Minister for Rural Affairs and others, covering the protests and the Government’s defence of the new Sustainable Farming Scheme , with both the Welsh farmers’ unions, NFU Cymru and the Farmers Union of Wales, out on th

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Forty million U.S. dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton acres will be directly impacted by the ruling made Tuesday by the U.S. District Court of Arizona in Tucson.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you’re driving along the highway in Florida sometime soon, you may find the roadside dotted with the blooms of thousands of flowers. But they aren’t just eye candy. These flowers are intended to create pollinator habitat corridors. According to Jaret Daniels, curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, we no longer have the luxury of relying only on conservation lands to address biodiversity loss.

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Digital photos, video, ownership records vital in reporting procedures Landowners who have experienced Panhandle wildfire losses to agricultural infrastructure or livestock are advised to properly document losses in preparation for filing insurance claims or qualifying for federal assistance. “It is recommended that landowners take photos of deceased livestock before burial, as well as burned equipment, Read More → The post Texas Panhandle wildfires: Documenting agricultural losses appeare

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USDA Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Alan Cruz is a senior at University of Arizona in Yuma studying agricultural systems management. He was recently named a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Future Leader in Agriculture and will be attending USDA’s 100th annual Agricultural Outlook Forum in Washington, D.C., held February 15-16, 2024.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

My Generation: There’s a lot of bad information on the internet, and in an age of digging in our heels, one Prairie Farmer reader shows how asking questions and seeking truth is still the way to go.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A new initiative seeks to increase the number of farmers of color through a new freight farm to be placed in rural Minnesota. Route 1 is an organization focused on increasing food access, specifically by supporting Black, Brown, and Indigenous emerging farmers in the state, said Marcus Carpenter, founder of the organization. In February, Route 1 will place its first freight farm in the rural community of Loretto, population 650.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wheat yield is made up of many yield components ranging from thousand kernel weight to head size and kernels per head. But when it comes to driving higher yields, all those components take a back seat to the number of heads per square metre. It’s the big data point emerging from three years of data. Read More Wheat yield is made up of many yield components ranging from thousand kernel weight to head size and kernels per head.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The following is excerpted from Taras Grescoe’s The Lost Supper , and has been lightly edited for length and clarity. There were times during this voyage that it seemed humanity was driving down an alley toward a brick wall, fast. Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapi

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Agri-tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park partners and British Sugar have secured significant new funding to develop innovative gene editing approaches to protect the British sugar beet crop against potentially catastrophic losses to virus yellows disease. The award from Innovate UK’s Farming Futures Research and Development Fund, is made jointly to British Sugar.

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USDA Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I am the director of agriculture programs at the University of Arizona Yuma (UAZ Yuma), a regional Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) that offers tailored degree programs that meet regional workforce's needs. The student population is approximately 70% Hispanic and first generation.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A new S7 series combine, high-horsepower 9RX tractors, C series carts and Hagie STS sprayers with factory-installed See & Spray Premium highlight a splashy group of product intros.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Equal access? There's a gap between essential legal support infrastructure in rural areas versus urban. Rural residents often face major challenges accessing legal services and representation.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In recent years, many corn growers in Ontario have wrestled with gibberella ear rot in the crop and the high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON) levels it can produce in the grain. It’s made for stressful harvest seasons, especially in 2018 when mycotoxins produced by the gibberella fungus in some fields climbed well above safe feeding. Read More In recent years, many corn growers in Ontario have wrestled with gibberella ear rot in the crop and the high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON) levels it

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When I saw the local avocados in the Mexican state of Yucatan, a hot, humid region located in the south of the country, I didn’t think they were avocados. Some were the size of small melons, others the size of a large mango, three to five times the size of a Hass avocado. Perhaps these were another exotic Mexican fruit that coincidentally had the scaly green skin of an avocado.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This article was co-produced and co-published with Nonprofit Quarterly. From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s—and the world’s—food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. The children and grandchildren of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton have long embedded their interests, and, more importantly, their money, among industry groups, policymakers, academics, activists, and NGOs active in the future of food.

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USDA Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Black History Month is a time of celebration, education, and reflection at Black Seeds Urban Farm , located in Memphis, Tennessee. Bobby and Derravia Rich started the community garden to provide local, organic fruits, vegetables, and nuts to neighbors with little or no access to fresh, nutritious food.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

At least three U.S.-bound cargo ships are preparing to load with soybeans at two ports in Northern Brazil, according to shipping lineup data seen by Reuters.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Census of Ag may not have moved markets, but it is clear that a younger and business-savvy cohort is ready to take on a new generation of agricultural viability.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When it comes to improving fertilizer application and utilization, growers are encouraged to focus on the 4Rs — the right source, right rate, right time, and right place. Former Manitoba Ag soil fertility specialist John Heard won’t argue with that strategy but he would also like farmers to think about the ‘4Ls’ — lift-off, leftover, Read More When it comes to improving fertilizer application and utilization, growers are encouraged to focus on the 4Rs — the right source, right

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Agri-tech

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP, Food and Farming Minister at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, (Defra) visited Norwich Research Park to see how technologies such as gene editing can help farmers to grow more nutritious, disease resistant and environmentally sustainable crops. The Minister spoke to researchers at the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory on a trip to.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is ‘local’ food? It’s a term we’re all familiar with and something we think we’d be quite confident at explaining – until we try. From definitions based on geographical distance to defining local in terms of things like environmental performance and social value, or suggestions that local should mean what consumers think it means, this apparently common sense term has evaded being pinned down.

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USDA Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When it comes to food safety during the big game, you can’t just wing it. Chicken wings are one of the most popular foods to eat during the Super Bowl, and USDA has some tips to keep foodborne illness from intercepting your Super Bowl Sunday.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As drone use in agriculture climbs the FBI and CISA are warning about data theft from Chinese-manufactured drones. The ag industry is on the lookout but U.S.-made drone options are limited.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Antarctic krill fishing has exponentially increased by over the past two decades by 400 percent, according to a report from the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. As the krill fishing industry expands across the aquaculture and pharmaceuticals industry, scientists express concerns that these sectors will decrease krill’s carbon sink capacity and create competition for krill’s natural predators.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A good portion of Ontario is nearing the end of what has been a very mild winter. Bare and sometimes thawed ground has many farmers asking if it’s too early for clover, for frost seeding, for tillage, and for patching in wheat crops. There’s also a saying that goes, “just because you can doesn’t mean. Read More A good portion of Ontario is nearing the end of what has been a very mild winter.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Under pewter-colored skies, Alan Bedtka tramps through the snow and past a stand of sorghum-sudangrass, its chest-high stems rattling in the harsh wind. The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. Bedtka is in his mid-30s and working to raising a small cow-calf beef herd profitably.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The German-based company on Friday announced a business strategy that includes managerial layoffs and promised more in-depth financial information on March 5.

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USDA Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Food and service have a special place in Walter Brooks, Jr.’s heart. Today, he runs Brooksmade Gourmet Foods in Atlanta, Georgia, which exports clean-label condiments, sauces and rubs.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While the Smokehouse Creek Fire rapidly became the state's largest in history, four other wildfires are burning in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle area.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe now by clicking here. It is obvious to most of us that food is a human right. But our discussions of food justice need to be grounded—literally—in what experts are calling a right to healthy soils.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

How does an on-farm biodigester and 2,200 beef cattle merge to make a farm more profitable and sustainable? On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Profitable Practices, Carl Frook shares how Frook Farms and Mar Creek Renewables has come together to help him manage manure, his cattle, his crops, and boost the bottom line for the family. Read More How does an on-farm biodigester and 2,200 beef cattle merge to make a farm more profitable and sustainable?

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