Category: Agriculture

The recent damage from Hurricane Helene has yet to be fully assessed, but it is still uncertain if Georgia will be able to hold on to the title of largest pecan producing state.

The report focuses on seasonal snowpack, precipitation, temperature, and drought conditions in the U.S.

Research Director for New Mexico State University’s Agricultural Science Center at Farmington Kevin Lombard is a co-principal investigator on a collaborative project focused on developing and accessing modern controlled environment agricultural practices to assist tribal communities.

To begin the week, Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small was in Houston, where she joined U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) welcomed students and educators back to school and highlighted efforts by USDA, under the Biden-Harris Administration, to ensure that schools in Texas and nationwide have access to healthy, nutritious meals for students.

Deputy Secretary Torres Small was in Pennsylvania and North Dakota this week to highlight the Biden-Harris Administration’s work to help farmers build more, new, and better markets and strengthen farming operations and businesses.

The technique will allow repopulation of the species in the event of a rapid extinction

New Mexico State University Regents professor Cynthia Bejarano was among 32 faculty and staff that the United States Department of Agriculture welcomed to Washington, D. C. earlier this month in the 2024 class of E. Kika De la Garza Fellows.

On Wednesday, Deputy Secretary Torres Small was in Morgan, Minnesota, to attend Farmfest, an event held every other year in Minnesota on 50 acres of land to showcase products, services and technologies from over 500 exhibitors and vendors.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announces changes to the Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Farm Loan Programs, effective Sept. 25, 2024 — changes that are intended to increase opportunities for farmers and ranchers to be financially viable.

El Departamento de Agricultura de EE.UU. (USDA) anunció las tasas de interés de préstamos para agosto de 2024, que son efectivas a partir del 1 de agosto de 2024.

At her first stop of the day this morning, Deputy Secretary Torres Small was in Carpinteria, California, to tour Hollandia Produce Group, which recently received a Rural Energy for America Program grant to implement energy efficiency systems.

El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. recuperó $268,417 en salarios atrasados ​​y compensación por daños para 76 trabajadores tras descubrir que su empleador los alojaba en condiciones deficientes y eximía a muchos del pago de horas extras, en violación de regulaciones federales.

The term acequias has come across the desk at Las Cruces Digest several times in the past week. This post explores what all of the attention is about.

This week, USDA officials, including Deputy Secretary Torres Small, welcomed 32 faculty and staff from Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Hispanic-Serving School Districts around the nation to the 2024 class of E. Kika De La Garza Fellows.