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May 8: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a new Office of Seafood, which will deal with wild caught and aquaculture industries in both saltwater and freshwater venues. USDA’s
Radio News Service has a story here.
May 7: Austin Gellings of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers and Willi Ortner of Kubota talked about the S664 DEC2025 Direct to Consumption Specialty Crop Machine Hygienic
Design Requirement in a recent installment of the Farm+Food+Facts podcast from U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action.
May 6: The Chief Sustainability Officer at the National Milk Producers Federation, Nicole Ayache, discussed the federation’s FARM (Farmers Assuring Responsible Management) program,
and an environmental sustainability subset of that program, in a recent episode of the NMPF’s Dairy Defined podcast.
May 5: Oklahoma State University Extension Entomologist Jonathan Cammack talks about the westward movement of the Asian longhorn tick, as well as control measures to fight the
pest. He appeared in a recent episode of the OSU Extension television program, SUNUP.
May 4: U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced an updated national disease response strategy regarding the threat of New World screwworm along the
southern U.S. border. It includes breaking ground for a facility in Texas to produce sterile male New World screwworm flies, and gives funding help to a similar facility in Mexico .
May 1: Kansas State University Extension puts out a radio feature called Agriculture Today and a recent episode included a segment about the trouble many Kansas farmers ran into
when they tried to grow hemp for the first time.
April 30: The final installment of a podcast series titled Lessons from the Delta (produced by the Center for Commercial Agriculture at Purdue University) was about the way Arkansas
rice farmers capitalize on their post-harvest time by hosting duck hunters in their rice fields.
April 29: A recent episode of the Food Talk podcast (from the nonprofit group, Food Tank) featured Emily Rees, president and CEO of CropLife International.
April 28: David Brown, a behavioral health state specialist for Iowa State University Extension, offers some tips for stress management during spring planting season. The USDA also has
related resources available online.
April 27: The Center for the Environment and Welfare is among the groups and individuals supporting a segment of the draft Farm Bill that would nullify California’s Prop 12. California
voters in 2018 approved the measure, which restricts the sale of pork and eggs in the state by producers that don’t meet strict production conditions for animal welfare.
