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In his final address to a National FFA Convention, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack urged FFA members to be the generation that opens up the doors of agriculture for all.

It°s a sad fact, but most Americans today have never met a farmer, or even visited a farm. Over the decades, the farmland that once surrounded most cities has given way to sprawling suburbs, transforming what was once a largely rural nation only a century ago into an incre

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USDAðs National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is making available $17.6 million for research and outreach activities to support the organic agriculture sector. The grants are funded through NIFA's Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OR

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Fewer acres would be purchased as easements to protect wetlands and other sensitive lands under the new Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), which is replacing three programs repealed by the 2014 farm bill.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a bill Tuesday that puts the city on a path toward displacing 20 percent of the heating oil sold within the city with cleaner-burning, sustainable, biodiesel.

The Western Energy Alliance has offered support for the Bureau of Land Management°s transition to online sales for oil and natural gas leases on public lands, saying the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and other projects justify the move.

In the first six months of 2016, energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the U.S. totaled 2,530 million metric tons, the lowest emissions level for the first six months of the year since 1991, according to new data from the Energy Information Administra

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