Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

While policy leaders around the world are pushing to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at an unprecedented speed, the science is still working to catch up, at least when it comes to measuring carbon sequestration rates and emissions at the farm level. The conventional way of measuring carbon is to look at what is currently. Read More While policy leaders around the world are pushing to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at an unprecedented speed, the science is still working to catch up,

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

James Merchant and Robert Martin, eds. Public Health Impacts of Industrial Farm Animal Production. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production with both authors about 15 years ago and was happy to do a blurb for their book. This hard-hitting book defies meat industry pressure and obfuscation to document the devastating effects of its current production methods on the quality of air and water and on human health.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Press Release INDIANAPOLIS – Today at the 2024 National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Annual Meeting , three key thought leaders joined the Food Systems & Nutrition Committee to share their insights on the integration of local and regional food systems into nutrition security programs. Fair Food Network Policy Lead Mark Nicholson, NourishedRx Vice President of Partnerships and Compliance Kendall Singleton and Urban School Food Alliance Cooperative Agreement Administrator Do

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On the importance of diversity in ecological research. Diversity of the research teams, that is. Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity. The main gap seem to be in the area of “payment for services.” The Role of Crop, Livestock, and Farmed Aquatic Intraspecific Diversity in Maintaining Ecosystem Services.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The top-ranked Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is undertaking a $9 million campaign to add more Ukrainian scholarship and programming. The post With $3 million gift, Berkeley prepares to build premier Ukrainian studies program appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Bayer releases 46 new products in Dekalb and Asgrow brands for 2025 with high-tech backgrounds.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Soil type, water availability, hybrid choice, plant population and crop nutrients are just some of the factors growers have to consider when pursuing a high-yielding corn crop on their farm. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Soil School, we catch up with Aaron Stevanus as he shares how these factors are evaluated at the Stevanus Family. Read More Soil type, water availability, hybrid choice, plant population and crop nutrients are just some of the factors growers have to consider when p

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Foundation has been awarded a $3 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement the Pesticide Inspector Residential Training Program. This funding, effective Aug. 2, will significantly expand the nationwide educational training provided to pesticide inspectors and enforcement staff over the next five years.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. Too bad most of them won’t be able to go to Svalbard. How to make a genebank beautiful as well as sustainable. Australia has a rice genebank. For some reason. Bangladesh gets a new genebank.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Ally Huang, a senior at Pomona College in California, just completed an internship through the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). As a public policy analysis major focusing on economics, she found that the experience enabled her to connect her educational background with a familiar cause: food security.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Nathan Brearley’s dairy herd is still recovering six months after an infection.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Children have enjoyed playing with nesting dolls for years and years. You know the ones — where opening one doll leads to finding another, smaller doll inside. What does a delightful children’s toy have to do with pea aphids in lentil crops? Let’s explain. Pea aphids are parthenogenic and much like the beloved nesting dolls, Read More Children have enjoyed playing with nesting dolls for years and years.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The World Health Organization has issued guidelines for taxing unhealthy foods: Fiscal Policies to Promote Healthy Diets. On the basis of current evidence, the WHO recommends: Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) Consideration of policies to tax unhealthy foods Consideration of policies to subsidize healthy foods A recent article explains why the recommendation for SSB taxes is so strong: Sweetened Beverage Tax Implementation and Change in Body Mass Index Among Children in Seattle.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Press Release INDIANAPOLIS – During the 2024 National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Annual Meeting , members elected their 2025 officers. Arkansas Department of Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward will serve as NASDA’s 2024-2025 President. “I am honored to continue serving this organization and proud to be elected as this year’s president by my fellow NASDA members,” Ward said.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Landrace in situ (on-farm) conservation: European Union achievements. Lots of organizations and farmers are conserving landraces in Europe, in lots of ways, and pretty successfully, but the most sustainable way to do so would be to decrease barriers to their marketing, in particular in the context of organic agriculture. An assessment of the implementation of the EU policy for conservation varieties from 2009 to 2023 and its relationship to Geographical Indications.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Existence of Earth-like planet around dead sun offers hope for our planet's ultimate survival The post This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ICGA says EPA’s multipollutant rule and DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule would devastate agriculture.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Over the past 20 years, advancements in corn genetics have helped produce an average yield gain of better than two bushels per acre, per year. What does the future hold for further yield advancement and where might genetic improvement take the king of crops? On this episode of the The Sharp Edge, host Bernard Tobin. Read More Over the past 20 years, advancements in corn genetics have helped produce an average yield gain of better than two bushels per acre, per year.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The USDA has released its annual report on Household Food Security in the United States in 2023. The news is not good. What’s especially tragic is the reversal of the pandemic decline in food insecurity. Pandemic income support and higher SNAP benefits did exactly what they were supposed to. They reduced poverty. Congress, in its infinite wisdom, stopped those benefits.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Press Release INDIANAPOLIS – NASDA’s newly appointed board of directors unanimously passed a resolution expressing support for the expeditious passage of a comprehensive, bi-partisan farm bill. “America’s farmers and ranchers provide the food, fiber, fuel and shelter that we all depend on every single day but they are subject to numerous and complex challenges that are out of their control,” newly-elected NASDA President Wes Ward said.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Is Xylella — cause of the olive plague that has been stalking southern Europe for a decade — a blessing in disguise for the Salento? Jeremy asks the hard questions in his latest Eat This Podcast. Spoiler alert: Silvestro Silvestori thinks it might just be: …at the heart of Xylella and the Salento is an identity crisis, that we’re all the children of farmers, we’re all farmers ourselves.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The endowed program, led by Ussama Makdisi, a history professor, will fund research and cultural activities, representing a major step forward in expanding Middle Eastern scholarship at UC Berkeley. The post New Palestinian and Arab Studies program established at UC Berkeley appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

When Civil Eats launched in 2009, no major media outlets focused on the relationship between food and other significant social and political issues. For the past 15 years, we have led the charge in creating robust conversations around food and farming, and worked to make complicated, underreported stories more accessible to a mainstream audience. In that time, our stories have had significant impact and reach, thanks in part to support from our readers and donors.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Why is it so important for corn growers to get their combine settings right before they roll into the field to harvest grain? University of Guelph Ridgetown College instructor and combine mechanic TJ Poehleman has a simple answer to that question. He says when growers are paying $800,000 or more for a combine and the. Read More Why is it so important for corn growers to get their combine settings right before they roll into the field to harvest grain?

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Nutrition Advocacy in Public Interest is “A national think tank on nutrition” in India, “consisting of independent experts in epidemiology, human nutrition, community nutrition and paediatrics, medical education, administration, social work and management.” This group is calling for regulation of unhealthy ultra-processed foods. This new report gives examples of food product ads , (50 of them) by method of appeal along with what information is concealed.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Press Release INDIANAPOLIS – At today’s 2024 Annual Meeting , the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture hosted National Agricultural Law Center’s Director Harrison Pittman, Senior Staff Attorney Rusty Rumley and Staff Attorney Brigit Rollins for a discussion on the potential impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the Chevron doctrine during the Natural Resources and Environment Policy Committee meeting.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000–50 000 years ago. There was more to the peopling of the Pacific than seafaring. Identification of breadfruit ( Artocarpus altilis ) and South American crops introduced during early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), as revealed through starch analysis. Though seafaring took these people all the way to South America , it sees.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

For over two decades, Berkeley has almost always been ranked as the No. 1 or No. 2 public school in the country. The post ‘U.S. News’ ranks UC Berkeley No. 2 public school in the country appeared first on Berkeley News.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Herminia Gomez serves as a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) liaison , working closely with Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the Northeast. HSIs are colleges and universities where the total Hispanic enrollment is at least 25% of the total student population. USDA partners with these institutions to connect students, faculty and staff with professional development, workforce development and educational opportunities.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The pressure is on for the Ontario government to back away from a land deal that would see 770 acres of farmland turned into a yet-to-be-determined industrial development. Hundreds of citizens in Wilmot Township near Kitchener, Ont., have posted signs and signed petitions proclaiming they are “unwilling hosts” to the planned development.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A reader suggested this report for weekend reading: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals : Threats to Human Health: Pesticieds, Plastics, Forever Chemicals, and Beyond. Among the report’s key takeaways: EDCs in the environment may contribute to disorders with hormonal underpinnings such as diabetes, neurological disorders, reproductive disorders, inflammation, and compromised immune functioning.

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Agri-tech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Bacteria use their internal 24-hour clocks to anticipate the arrival of new seasons, according to research carried out with the assistance of an ‘ice bucket challenge.’ This discovery may have profound implications for understanding the role that circadian rhythms – a molecular version of a clock – play in adapting species to climate change, from migrating animals to flowering plants.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Where are we with the whole enhancing the functioning of the Plant Treaty’s Multilateral System thing? I’m glad you asked. You’ll remember that … [h]istorically, parties have been divided between creating a subscription-only system of payment upon registration, and maintaining a single-access option along the lines of the benefit-sharing payments under the current SMTA.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The post $23 million gift for Cal Golf marks largest endowment in Athletics history appeared first on Berkeley News.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

When Kiera Sherrod was young, her grandfather often came to her house in Albany, Georgia to plant crops in her parents’ backyard for her family to maintain and harvest. This ritual also sparked the beginning of his granddaughter’s interest in agriculture.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

When planting a grain crop in the spring and caring for those plants throughout the summer, farmers look forward to the full bins that harvest typically brings. Sometimes, drought, hail or pests get in the way, leading to crop yield potential that isn’t worth taking for grain. This is where having a mixed operation or. Read More When planting a grain crop in the spring and caring for those plants throughout the summer, farmers look forward to the full bins that harvest typically brings.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A reader writes: Can you address the current food crisis outlining the many foods, long time frame, economic impact, and personal effort involved in this event? I did not realize until I read the NPR email news brief this morning that one factory is the source of nine deaths, that multiple meat products are suspect, that many stores are involved, that sell-by dates extend into October, that products may be in appliances at home, and that all food in the appliance must be disposed of and that t

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