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With the opening of its new Engineering, Production, and Innovation Center, UPSIDE Foods is taking the next step in bringing cultivate meat to consumers.

More than $243 million in grants available through two USDA programs, the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program and the Specialty Crop Research Initiative grants program.

As Georgia residents deal with periods of flood-level rainfall, UGA researchers announced a partnership that will enable them to share flood risk data with other scientists across the U.S.

the National FFA announced the student membership has reached a record-high 760,113 … an increase of nearly 60,000 over last year’s membership.

California strawberry movement is on track to beat last year’s 202 million trays by a little over 16 million, and growers are reporting good size and quality.

The USDA announced it has purchased more than $2.2 billion of meat, fruits, vegetables, specialty crops and dairy products in fiscal years 2019 and 2020.

National emergency was declared due to coronavirus COVID-19, the hours of service rules for truck drivers transporting emergency food supplies have been waived.

Older people with diets heavy in flavonols, antioxidants found in fruits, vegetables and tea, may be less prone to develop Alzheimer’s.

**Operations are returning to normal at California farms, ranches and agricultural businesses that endured public-safety power shutoffs. The widespread outages interrupted harvest schedules for wine grapes, rice and other crops, and caused scattered produce losses due to lack of refrigeration...

Stockholders of Bayer have been concerned about their investment in the company that bought Monsanto for $66 Billion and has to pay a huge settlement of Roundup.