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New Dairy Plus Program Awards Nearly $18 Million for Projects Reducing Greenhouse Gasses on California Dairies.

North Dakota chosen for Alliance to Advance Climate-Smart Agriculture

Farmers and ranchers to be compensated for high-value conservation practices.

In the 1970s, industrial-scale agriculture transformed the world's ability to feed hungry populations. Meet the farmers who are re-envisioning a new green revolution. 

The Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service has named Zach Dantzler as the new agronomics row crops agent for Calhoun and Richland counties.

The Biden administration hopes changes to farming can help achieve its climate agenda. The Department of Agriculture has an additional goal: improving service to Black and other underserved farmers.

The Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service has named Zach Dantzler as the new agronomics row crops agent for Calhoun and Richland Counties.

Animal agriculture is having its clean coal moment. In 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or FAO, published a report unequivocally linking livestock production to anthropogenic climate change and numerous other forms of ecological destruction. Since then, these findings have been corroborated by extensive further research, which shows that livestock, and primarily methane-belching ruminants like cows, is responsible for about 15 percent of global greenhouse gas em

The industry insists that meat's problems can be solved with technical fixes. We’ve seen this before.

Press release DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States’ leadership in climate-smart agriculture and forestry took center stage at the 2023