Thirty years ago, Richard Nixon’s secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Earl Butz, relayed a message to farmers that transformed American agriculture: “Get big or get out.” ...

The National Center for Appropriate Technology will launch an online information clearinghouse in 2021 to promote solar-energy development on agricultural lands while protecting — and even improving — ...

Despite being slated for roughly 10,000 acres of farmland, a major solar project has won approval from Oregon energy siting regulators without encountering any formal protests. An $11 million fund to ...

The Weed Science Society of America, Westminster, Colorado, applauds its member-scientist and Texas A&M University Agronomy Professor Muthukumar Bagavathiannan, Ph.D., for a recent $10 million ...

The agriculture classroom at Hoosier Hills Career Center is plant- and soil-based and doesn’t include agriculture automation or agricultural welding, but McBride said the National FFA let them allow ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff more than $2 million in grants for agriculture-related programs, said ...

Agricultural associations, industry and producer groups, localities, community-based organizations, educational institutions, and non-profits are eligible for the program.

The Nenana Totchaket Agricultural Project aims to fight food insecurity in the state but could interfere with local trappers’ ability to gather food. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration believes the ...

Some Nenana-area residents are asking the state to delay land sales in a 140,000-acre agricultural project just west of town. They say the state should talk further with local residents and complete ...