Articles Tagged with ''NIFA''

President-elect Joe Biden’s commitment to addressing climate change and the food and ag industry’s progress in coalescing on ag carbon proposals are increasing the chances that farmers could see new income streams developing through private markets and USDA programs.

Spiro Stefanou has been selected to serve as the new administrator of USDA’s Economic Research Service and Paul Schlegel announced his retirement from the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The University of California, Riverside won a $10 million grant to develop artificial intelligence that will increase the environmental and economic stability of agriculture in the Western U.S. and train future researchers.

A new program created in the 2018 farm bill aims to help land-grant colleges and universities do more to help American Indian students.

Prospective employees for ERS and NIFA jobs crowded a career fair last week, generating strong interest in these new USDA jobs that will be located in Kansas City.

Corporations and organizations looking to serve the nation's farmers and ranchers are exploring a new pool of candidates to fill their open positions: students with backgrounds outside of traditional production agriculture.

USDA programs to boost fresh produce consumption and local food marketing are still stumbling toward release of FY 2019 grant funds.

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a fiscal 2020 spending bill for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration that creates a new hurdle for biotech salmon and sets up a fight with the House over relocating two USDA research agencies.