The Ceres Trust launches the sixth year of their Organic Research Initiative (ORI) program to support research that helps the region contend with “the loss of our beneficial weather patterns, severe degradation and loss of our soils, dwindling and contaminated water resources, widespread loss of pollinators, and the collapse of entire ecosystems.” They fund organic […]
Month: June 2015
The View from Europe: the Common Agricultural Policy and Small Farms
The European Coordination Via Campesina has released a new briefing outlining some concrete proposals for how the CAP could support small-to-medium sized family farms – and why it should. Originally published June 25, 2015 on www.eurovia.org: How can public policy support small-scale family farms? In the frame of the European project “New CAP, new horizons”, 2014-00116, […]
National Wildlife Federation Cover Crop Team is hiring!
We’re looking for a knowledgeable and talented person to add to our cover crop team! Position is to be based in Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Michigan. https://nwf.applicantpro.com/jobs/237724.html Feel free to contact me with any questions. Best, Ryan Ryan Stockwell Ph.D.Senior Agriculture Program Manager stockwellr@nwf.org Twitter: @rjstockwell 715-965-2538
Avian Influences: The Politics of the Mid-West Bird Flu Outbreak
Robert Wallace is an evolutionary biologist and social epidemiologist, and co-author of the groundbreaking Farming Human Pathogens (2009). In a recent blog post he addresses the recent – and ongoing – outbreak of avian influenza in the US. In this short essay he dissects the public discussion and institutional response to the outbreak, and lays […]
Hey Students Abstracts are Due for the ASA,CSA, SSA Meeting
Graduate students, abstracts are due for the trisociety meetings and there are MANY graduate student competitions that provide monetary awards. For a list of these click here https://www.acsmeetings.org/files/meetings/2015-student-competition-descriptions.pdf Competitions include a poster session on Organic Management Systems, oral and poster sessions on Sensor Based Nutrient Management, and Evapotranspiration Measurement and Modeling, poster sessions on Soil […]