“Other than my family, there is nothing I treasure more than my farm.” A lot has changed on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 325 years, but corn is still a staple crop, and the Councell family still farms in Talbot County.
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A U.K. survey indicates that 100% of foodservice businesses would choose to work with a procurement partner that helps them identify sustainable products compared with those who don’t – proving that…
September 8, 2015 The U.S. Sustainability Alliance (USSA) welcomes two new members – the Organic Trade Association (OTA) and U.S. Wheat Associates (USW). The addition of these two important partners in…
According to a recent tree mapping study conducted by Thomas Crowther and colleagues from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, there are three trillion trees on earth — a number higher than previous estimates.
According to a recent tree mapping study conducted by Thomas Crowther and colleagues from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, there are three trillion trees on earth — a…
By Elizabeth Westendorf A rapidly emerging food marketing trend is the concept of “sustainable production.” Sustainability is not clearly defined and therefore means something different to each participant in the…
A rapidly emerging food marketing trend is the concept of “sustainable production.” Sustainability is not clearly defined and therefore means something different to each participant in the value chain.
Phil Karsting, Administrator of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, challenged the world’s leading agricultural producers to embrace innovation and make decisions based on science to feed…
By Kathy Dixon Just one year after Virginia’s Resource Management Plan (RMP) program was implemented, the plans are rolling in. The program to help implement and track farmers’ conservation efforts began July 1, 2014. Organizers’…
Punting, passing and dodging may be winning strategies on the sports field. Yet when it comes to tackling the California drought, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) goes for head-on approaches. The University’s latest move is expected to conserve more than 6.5 million gallons of water annually.
July 2015 hit the all-time highest monthly global temperature dating back to 1880, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency focused on the condition of…
Buzzwords like “sustainability” and “conservation” may seem au courant to Madison Avenue marketers but for Jennifer James, a fourth generation rice farmer from Arkansas, these concepts are nothing new.
Economic Research Report No. (ERR-188) 52 pp, July 2015 by William McBride, Catherine Greene, Linda Foreman, and Mir Ali The United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has published…
Economic Research Report No. (ERR-189) 78 pp, July 2015 by Sun Ling Wang, Paul Heisey, David Schimmelpfennig, and Eldon Ball The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has published a…
Eradicating world hunger sustainably by 2030 will require an estimated additional $267 billion per year on average for investments in rural and urban areas and in social protection so poor…
