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The RIPE proposal offers conservation payments of at least $100 an acre while producing a crop $100 an animal unit for livestock. It might be the incentive needed for increased buy-in.

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 21, 2023) – Prairie View A&M University has been awarded $3 million to provide training, education and community engagement to underserved farmers across 60 counties in East Texas via the Climate-Smart Farm Planning Program.

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 15, 2023) – Prairie View A&M University, along with research partners at Texas A&M University, University of Houston, and Michigan Aerospace Corporation, has been awarded a new grant to help support small-scale, underserved and limited resources farmers reduce g...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack bristled at complaints from senators of unchecked USDA spending and delayed support for farmers.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack bristled Thursday at complaints from Democrats and Republicans of unchecked spending and delayed support for farmers.

Investment money pouring into farmland markets is shrinking the land-acquisition prospects for small farmers. The hefty price tag for good farmland is one of the biggest challenges facing beginning farmers and farmers of color. Savi Horne, executive director of the North Carolina Association of Black lawyers Land Loss Prevention Project, said since the start of the pandemic there has been more pressure for financial institutions and investors to acquire land, driving up costs and complicating ...

By Caroline Tracey for Civil Eats.Broadcast version by Deborah Van Fleet for Missouri News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Jack Southworth’s ranch sits at 4,600 feet in elevation outside Seneca, Oregon, near the Strawberry and Blue mountain ranges. Like many ranchers, his cattle graze private, deeded land in the winter and leased National Forest land in the summer, including a high mountain plateau filled with bluebunch wheatgra...

ORLANDO, Fla. — On the main stage of the Commodity Classic Trade Show here on Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack signed the first two memorandums of understanding to launch projects under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart...

Family scale farmers in the Midwest may lose a lot to large agribusinesses through carbon markets, a new report says.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack presented the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) highest honor to 39 teams of distinguished employees.