INDUSTRY NEWS

Winners of the 2020 Agricultural Proficiency Awards were named during the 93rd National FFA Convention & Expo held virtually this year, Oct. 27-29.

The USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced Oct. 29 it is extending the deadline for public comments on recommended improvements to the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage (PRF) Rainfall Index Crop Insurance Program to Dec. 21, 2020.

Bert Paris loves farming. After nearly 30 years of operating his dairy farm near Belleville, Wisconsin, Paris is in the process of passing on his farm to his daughter Meagan.

Extension experts in California have partnered with colleagues in South Dakota to create Match.Graze.

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to cause agricultural commodity marketing disruptions, the USDA has launched a second Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP 2). Unlike the first CFAP program, alfalfa producers – whether producing for forage or alfalfa seed – are now eligible for payments.

Cows and horses aren't the only fans of alfalfa. Yellow perch like it too.

That's what USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their collaborators concluded when they fed the fish pellets made with a protein concentrate from the legume crop's protein-rich leaves.