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Race, Agriculture, and Access to Land
Stephanie Morningstar is coordinator for the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. The group started in 2017 as an informal...
Read moreBeef Processing Plant Announcements Surge as Cattle Inventories Drop
A proposed 8,000-head-per-day beef processing facility in South Dakota is joining a packed roster of planned and existing plants that could...
Read moreOil and Gas Prepares for Restrictions to Conserve Rare New Mexico Bird
Lesser prairie chickens once numbered in the thousands throughout the American West, thriving on the prairielands of eastern New Mexico...
Read moreForecast of Food Cyber Attacks
Wide-ranging use of smart technologies is raising global agricultural production but international researchers warn this digital-age phenomenon could reap a...
Read moreUSDA Approves Parasitoid as Biological Control to Manage Destructive Fruit Fly Pest
(Beyond Pesticides, June 8, 2022) A new biological agent to manage the destructive pest spotted wing drosophila (SWD) (Drosophila suzukii)...
Read moreU.S. Department of Agriculture Approves Release of Tiny Wasp that Targets Destructive Fruit Fly
A tiny wasp attacks invasive spotted wing drosophila. Credit: Dr. Kent Daane, University of California, Berekley. After 12 years of...
Read moreAG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST
Revitalizing the farm Kathleen Smith, CEO of Life Essentials and a farmer herself, says she has some keys to revitalizing...
Read more‘Farming is beautiful’: Immigrants, Refugees Connect to Their Roots on Orchard Park Land
On a recent Saturday, Immaculee Ndayisaba was busy transplanting eggplants into rows on cultivated land in Orchard Park. Ndayisaba, from...
Read moreKansas Wheat Farmers Could Lose $1 Billion Due to Drought Conditions
As drought deprives western and central Kansas of rain, farmers are bracing for a drop in production that threatens to barely...
Read moreU.S. Sheep Herders Sue Employers for Cartel-Like Wage Suppression
June 2 (Reuters) - Sheep herders in the U.S. West have banded together to sue their employers, accusing them of...
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