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Updated: March 12, 2021 Nominations are now open for Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ (FDACS) Agricultural-Environmental Leadership Award. The industry honor has been presented since 1994 to recognize environmentally innovative Florida growers and ranchers. FDACS needs your help to find the next crop of honorees. Advertisement “We have nearly 10 million acres of farmland, and every acre is an opportunity for land conservation and improved water quality,” says State Ag Commissioner Nikki Fried. The following environmental practices will be considered in judging no...

Racial Diversity of Farmers in Virginia From row crops to vegetables, cattle to chickens, farmers of every major racial demographic play an essential role in agricultural production as well as soil and water conservation throughout Virginia. The most recent Census of Agriculture conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2017 indicated that Virginia had over 2,500 farmers of color involved in some form of agricultural production. African Americans and Latino farmers make up the majority of this sizable group of Virginia farmers. Other groups represented include Asian American, Native ...

In 20 counties across northwest Ohio, a team of water quality specialists is working with farmers to evaluate practices that promote soil health and reduce the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen entering waterways. Part of the team’s work involves running field trials to determine the effects of applying varied rates of phosphorus, nitrogen, and potassium fertilizers to cropland. Extensive soil testing has been done on fields to see the how planting cover crops and minimally tilling the land affects soil health. And new water quality monitoring stations have been set up to show trends in nut...

Posted January 8th, 2021 for CHS Now is the time to inform your local cooperative or agronomist about spring fertilizer needs. Jan 08, 2021 The 2020 harvest season was one of the best fall application periods U.S. farmers have seen in years. And with many countries expanding production of potash, phosphates and nitrogen, there will be ample supplies of crop nutrients for U.S. crops in 2021.  “The good news is there isn’t a fertilizer shortage ahead of us,” says Todd Dysle, CHS crop nutrients expert, “but to ensure farmers will have what they need for next s...

IFFCO MD Dr U S Awasthi has been writing his new year message for his team every year. The message is a kind of IFFCO’s vision document that spells out the challenges as well as the preparations to overcome them in future. The MD seems to convey that the year 2021 belongs to Nano technology. His focus is on farmers. Bringing innovative cost-effective technology driven solutions to them is the gist of the message. We reproduce the excerpts-Editor Dear Friends, A very Happy & Prosperous New Year to you all! We have now entered into the New Year 2021 with strong expectations for all of us acro...