Trends in Local and Regional Food Production and Sales
A new Report to Congress has just been released by the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) entitled Trends in Local and Regional Food Systems. Here are some highlights [...]
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Farming Resources: Publications, Regulations, Research
New Publication: Apple IPM for Beginners Apple IPM for Beginners is a new series of simplified factsheets and scouting guides that make integrated pest management [...]
Cover Crop Research Report
Cover Crop Report Documents Yield Boost, Soil Benefits and Ag Retailer Roles For the second year in a row, a national survey of farmers has documented a yield boost from the [...]
Agricultural Funding Opportunities
New Agricultural Funding Opportunities National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety Mini-Grants The mini-grant program of the National [...]
USDA News from National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition April-May 2014
USDA News from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) April-May 2014 Conservation Easement Funding; USDA Invests $7 Million to Research Small Farms; Research [...]
Organic Agriculture Research Symposium (Wisconsin) Call for Papers
Call for Papers now open for the Organic Agriculture Research Symposium February 25-26, 2015 in La Crosse, Wisconsin The Organic Agriculture Research Symposium invites [...]
Cyanobacteria for a Sustainable Agriculture?
New Research About The Productivity of Ancient Boreal Flood Plains May Offer Clues for Reducing Fertilizer in Modern Crop Production What made floodplains fertile during the [...]
Questioning Our Approach to Potassium in Soils
The Potassium Paradox According to three University of Illinois scientists, potash, or potassium chloride (KCL), widely used as a fertilizer in the Corn Belt, is a highly [...]
Reducing Nitrogen Use: Helping non-legumes think like legumes
Reducing Nitrogen Use Can non-legumes work like legumes? Nitrogen has certainly been on our minds lately here at beginningfarmers.org. Earlier this month we reported on the [...]
Plant Microbiomes: Implications for Agriculture?
Study Compiles Research of Past Decade on Plant Microbiomes What are the Implications for Agriculture? Marnie Rout (University of North Texas Health Science Center) and [...]
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