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The company is busy settling into their new digs in Sanford. A recent $7.6 million bridge round of financing covered most of the costs for their new plant, which will also be the home to a research & development facility and the company's new headquarters.

From eating utensils to coffee pods, many of us use plastic products daily. PlantSwitch has a mission to make these items more sustainable by replacing traditional petroleum-based plastics with compostable plastics made from plants. The bioplastics company, which was previously based in Dallas, recently moved its headquarters to Sanford, where it also opened a manufacturing facility. The facility will turn at least 30 million pounds of agricultural waste into 50 million pounds of bioplastic pel...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Oct. 9, 2023 — Devin Fielding held up a photograph of his children when he explained why he farms, as well as the golden opportunity he sees

When Sabhyata Jha was a teenager, a catastrophic earthquake devastated parts of her native Nepal. The April 15, 2015, Gorkha quake killed almost 9,000 people and damaged or destroyed more than 600,000 structures. Jha, now a data science major at Duke Kunshan University, was lucky, she says. Her family survived and their house remained standing. Still, hundreds of aftershocks – some lethally powerful – disrupted her 10th grade year and changed thousands of lives throughout her Himalayan homel...

For farmers, trees offer multiple benefits, including a potential revenue stream and USDA funding.

Emory environmental scientists are helping vegetable farmers in the Southern Piedmont navigate a changing climate while researching ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

Applications for fiscal 2023 funding under USDAs Regional Conservation Partnership Program are seeking $2.2 billion, more than four times the $500 million available, according to a slide presentation obtained by Agri-Pulse.

Handsome Brook Farms, the nation’s leading producer of organic pasture raised eggs, has announced its official launch of the Climate Smart Organic Egg Project, an innovative initiative made possible through a USDA Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities grant. The project aims to reshape the future of sustainable agriculture and address climate challenges inherent to organic […]

/PRNewswire/ -- Sorghum industry members – including representatives from National Sorghum Producers (NSP), United Sorghum Checkoff Program (USCP), Texas Tech...