WOODLAND, Calif. —  Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) announced $470,000 given in awards and equipment to veterans across the country through the Farmer Veteran Fellowship Fund. It’s the largest amount awarded in program history. The Farmer Veteran Fellowship Fund provides direct assistance to veterans involved in agriculture by awarding them equipment and small grants in the amount of $1,000 to […]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Interest and adoption of polyploid computational tools have grown well beyond expectations, providing advances in the breeding of polyploid plants. David Byrne, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research rose breeder and geneticist, is the director for a four-year grant-funded project to create and improve software for polyploid genetic analysis. Byrne and Oscar […]

BROOKINGS, S.D. — For Carson Kahler, a senior agricultural systems technology student from Sherburn, Minnesota, agriculture has been his way of life since birth. Being the sixth generation on his family’s corn and soybean operation, Kahler looks forward to following in the footsteps of those who cultivated the soil before him and sharing what that […]