Erik King, a student at Texas A&M University, started a YouTube channel where he shares tips for gardening and growing fresh food from a wheelchair. Check out his channel, The More You Grow, here.
"The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) is excited to release the priority areas for our next grant cycle. We strongly encourage all farmers and ranchers, graduate students, early career researchers, veterans, and Extension personnel to consider applying for funding."
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"The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) today announced that starting Sept. 1, 2017, dairy producers can enroll for 2018 coverage in the Margin Protection Program (MPP-Dairy)."
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The Farm Science Review "attracts upwards of 140,000 visitors that visit to peruse 4,000 product lines from 600 commercial exhibitors, and learn the latest in agricultural production. The educational programs feature Ohio State and Purdue specialists and are second to none in the agricultural exhibition world, according to the website. Ohio State University Extension Educator of Agriculture and Natural Resources Sam Custer said anyone who has any interest in agriculture should attend the Farm Science Review."
The Daily Advocate
"Hunger does not respect age. A recent report comparing data from 2007 to 2015 finds 5.4 million people age 60 or older in the U.S., or 8.1 percent, are food insecure."
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"These 'farm to prison' programs are popping up in states as far-flung as California and Vermont, with inmates growing thousands of pounds of potatoes, carrots, beets and even apples to feed themselves and to donate to food banks."
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"An urban garden just two blocks away from Salt Lake City’s often violent and trash-filled homeless shelter has been thriving on a formerly blighted parcel of land thanks to homeless and formerly homeless women who are paid $9 an hour to work on it."
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"A new study by researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences shows that applying manure to crop fields by means of shallow disk injection into the soil rather than traditional surface broadcast significantly reduces estrogens in surface runoff."
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"Farm accidents and emergencies can happen anytime. Preplanning is an important step of farm safety."
Farm and Dairy
"Dedicated to all those who will be, are, and have been 14 and farmed…"
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