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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
The National Council for Agricultural Education has tapped Travis Park to be the new director of agricultural education, National FFA board chair and National FFA adviser, and former North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has been named director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
The future of farming could include better ways for people to monitor what crop plants need. That's one of the goals of a new $25 million research center dubbed CROPPS (for Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems) focused on the new field of digital biology.
A recent USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service and North Carolina State University study found some disturbing food-handling methods by American consumers.
The Department of Energy announced nearly $25 million for a selected eight organizations to further the installation of cost-effective, highly efficient combined heat and power (CHP) technologies.