They attributed the slow uptake mainly to the country’s traditional irrigation water pricing system, uneven land topography, and significant gaps in farmers’ knowledge and awareness ...
That’s why the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) partnered with The University of ...
Advocates for reducing atmospheric carbon hope some initiatives would survive in a Trump administration. In 2021, the Biden administration put a new twist on an old program that pays farmers to keep ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture published an interim rule establishing guidelines for climate-smart crops used as biofuel feedstocks, as well as a Feedstock Carbon Intensity Calculator ...
Carolyn Jones never thought it was controversial to herd her cattle to different parts of her 200-acre ranch in northeastern Mississippi to give the grass time to grow back between grazing. “This is ...
Farmer Will Tipton holds a radish, one of the cover crops he's using. Some scientists worry that the climate benefits of cover crops and other regenerative agriculture practices are oversold. Climate ...
A fallowed field in Kern County. (California Department of Water Resources photo) The California Department of Food and Agriculture has released its Climate Resilience Strategy for California ...
A new Farm Journal poll conducted on behalf of Invest in Our Land across 10 leading agricultural states shows that American farmers and ranchers overwhelmingly believe conservation funding has an ...
National and international experts on Wednesday underscored that future agricultural challenges - including timely diagnosis of crop health, mitigation of climate change impacts and the looming threat ...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is renaming and changing the rules of a $3.1 billion program testing the ability of a variety of conservation practices to produce climate-smart commodities. A ...
In 2023, USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities turned on the spigot to fund 141 projects, totaling $3 billion. Understanding the projects — each run by a different organization with its ...
Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. FRENCHMANS BAYOU, Ark. — Will ...