Disturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third ofcolonies have failed to survive the winter. The decline of the country’s estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD) led to [...]
In early March the Secretary of Agriculture congratulated young farmers during an awards ceremony …recognizing their outstanding efforts for entering into the farming industry and continuing to carry the torch for family farming and small size ranching. As Susan Carter tells us in this edition of Agriculture USA, the event also allowed the group to [...]
USDA and the dairy industry now have a memorandum of understanding in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissons and build new manure-to-energy projects.
