4/29/19: The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) is now accepting applications from military veterans who want to attend their week-long Armed to Farm (ATF) training in Vermont. ATF allows…
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4/25/19: Last Friday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler three months to justify why chlorpyrifos should stay on the market. In 2017,…
4/17/2019: Following the 2018 UN High Level Political Forum, the One Planet network adopted ‘food systems’ as a cross-cutting theme for the year. Produced with the aim of helping audiences…
4/17/2019: On April 11th, the North Central IPM Center released a regenerative agriculture fact sheet. It’s intended to be a resource for Organic and IPM communities, or for anyone who…
4/3/19: The Maryland state Senate will consider a bill to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos more than two weeks after a majority in the House of Delegates approved a statewide prohibition…
4/3/19: The Western IPM Center’s April edition of its monthly newsletter is now online. This issue contains: Their draft list of newly updated IPM and pest management priorities in the…
4/3/19: Biofertilizers are fertilizers that contain living organisms. Compared to conventional fertilizers, they can reduce the amount of nutrients lost from cropland into the environment. This can have positive implications…
3/28/19: Four Oregon bills that would regulate pesticide use and reporting went through public hearings this Tuesday. Senate Bill 853 and House Bill 3058 both would restrict sales of neonicotinoid…
3/19/19: The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is now accepting pre-proposals for the 2019 Seeding Solutions funding opportunity through April 19, 2019. FFAR is looking to fund innovative…
3/14/19: Every year, more and more Mexican produce comes from greenhouse agriculture. Between 2017 and 2018, Mexican greenhouse produce acreage increased from 9,083 to 57,454. Greenhouses can increase yield and place heating,…