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Cattle put on most weight gains during winter, matching the time when a farmer may consider cover cropping, providing animals ample access to forages.

They also urged global buyers to pay fair prices for clothes produced in environment-friendly factories

Analysts say at a workshop

/PRNewswire/ -- Beginning today, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in California is setting aside $2 million in federal financial...

/PRNewswire/ -- Conservation partners in California are hosting the second annual USDA "Growing Together" Black and Urban Farmers Conference, that will be held...

Like all stone fruits, plum trees bloom very early in the spring and if the delicate flowers get damaged by freezing temperatures, it means no fruit that year.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced $40 million in grants investing in conservation efforts.

The Gary conference will take place on April 15.

Fed by a record snowpack in the surrounding mountains, the waterfalls at Gunlock State Park about 15 miles northwest of St. George is flowing again and unleashing a torrent of water and visitors.It’s the third time in the past five years the water from Gunlock Reservoir has cascaded over the dam and spilled onto the cliffside rocks, creating the rare captivating waterfalls that entrance visitors from all over Utah and southern Nevada. On any given day when the falls spring into action, cars ov...

Iowa Learning Farms will host two on-farm cover crop field days April 4 and 5. The first is in Dayton and includes a focus on grazing beef cattle; and