USDA Blog
APRIL 9, 2024
With that seed of interest planted, she took agriculture classes throughout high school, grew and maintained her garden, showed livestock, and cross-bred tomatoes. She eventually got her degree in agriculture from Prairie View A&M University with a concentration in plant and soil science.
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. A large weed seed bank caused problems in past years, such as the bindweed that consistently outcompetes crops.
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UnderstandingAg
OCTOBER 29, 2023
For me, well, I was taking an introductory soil science class in a two-year horticulture degree program at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, NY. In that soil science class, I learned all about soil horizons, particle size ranges that comprise sand, loam, and clay, pH, N,P,K, and the fact soil compaction inhibits plant growth.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 1, 2023
We have covered the incorporation of hedgerows to sequester carbon in soil, an ultracross seed-breeding project to create climate-adapted plant varieties, and the adoption of care-centered politics , among many other efforts. Below are some of our most important climate solutions stories from 2023.
Agwired
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
AgReliant Genetics has announced senior leadership changes to position the company for long-term success, while continuing to have a seed-only focus delivering high-performing hybrids for farmers. As previously announced, Pivot Bio co-founder and current CEO Karsten Temme will become Chief Innovation Officer.
Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
In 2018, the farm expanded and moved to the current high-desert property, which, in addition to growing crops such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and herbs, also houses an Indigenous seed bank and a new community kitchen called Niqi Native Kitchen. “I I think some of the blood memory in this ancestral seed is digging the drought.
NASDA
JUNE 22, 2023
James Winery Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation Synergistic Hawaii Agriculture Council The Breakthrough Institute The Good Food Institute Turfgrass Producers International U.S.
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