Items Tagged with 'Ag research'

Agri-Pulse has obtained the Senate's revised ag provisions for the Build Back Better bill. They would increase funding for conservation technical assistance by more than $2 billion and provide more modest increases for ag research.

Climate change has already increased the overwintering range of a destructive pest, increasing its resistance to insecticides, and the situation is projected to get worse in the coming decades, new research shows.

A broad array of national and state farm organizations is appealing to Congress and the Biden administration to provide $40 billion in new funding for climate-related and ag research infrastructure.

Davis-based Arcadia Biosciences purchased the assets of Agrasys S.A., a Barcelona, Spain-based food ingredients company that developed tritordeum, a cross between durum wheat and wild barley with anti-inflammatory properties that is known to improve or even prevent age-related macular degeneration.

Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Rick Crawford discuss the importance of the AIM Act and how it is necessary to protect American agriculture and ensure American agriculture research and technology continues to be the best in the world.

With the COVID-19 outbreak, ag research supporters say there is a need to keep researchers hard at work now more than ever.

Faced with criticism about delays in research reports and distribution of grant funding, a top USDA official defended the department’s decision to relocate the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture to the Kansas City region at a congressional hearing Thursday.