ORISKANY, N.Y. — The 57th 4-H Conservation Education Days (CED) were held at Delta Lake State Park on September 20th and 29th, with 786 6th-grade students from across Oneida County attending the event. This was the first year since 2019 that Conservation Education Days was held in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students rotated […]

PORTO TOLLE, Italy (AP) — Drought and unusually hot weather have raised the salinity in Italy’s largest delta, where the mighty Po River feeds into the Adriatic Sea south of Venice, and it’s killing rice fields along with the shellfish that are a key ingredient in one of Italy’s culinary specialties: spaghetti with clams. At […]

SACRAMENTO — California Farm Bureau President Jamie Johansson responded to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement of a memorandum of understanding for voluntary agreements on water supplies from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. “We appreciate the Newsom administration, the signatories and other parties that have worked on these important voluntary agreements for California’s water future,” Johansson said. “We […]

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Aaron Brandt joins the Fisher Delta Research, Extension and Education Center (FDREEC), one of the four research, extension and education centers of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR), on Oct. 11, as the director. Brandt is no stranger to Missouri agriculture. He grew […]

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. — Justin S. Calhoun starts Sept. 1 as a University of Missouri Extension state specialist in soils and cropping systems. He will be based at the Fisher Delta Research Center (FDRC) in southeastern Missouri near Portageville. Calhoun will also be an assistant professor in the MU Division of Plant Science and Technology. “Research at […]