Louisiana's wildlife is feeling the effects of Hurricane Gustav. Fish kills are occurring throughout south Louisiana, and upland animals lost trees that provided food and shelter and have been displaced by floodwaters, according to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service.
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Master gardeners are available at a county Cooperative Extension office near you to help solve lawn and garden problems. They are drawn from hobbyists and professionals who have completed the University of Connecticut master gardener's program of training in horticultural and environmental science. Some have gardened all their lives and want to learn more, and others are deeply involved in community gardens or environmental activities. In 1972, cooperative extension service agricultural agents in Washington state were frustrated by a lack of funding, which limited their ability to answer the needs of increasing numbers of home gardeners and farmers. They developed the master gardener program to educate home gardeners, who would then educate others.
The Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service was established in 1914 by the Smith-Lever Act. This brought about a partnership between federal, state and county governments that allowed universities across the nation to educate farm families as well as the students who came to their campuses. Not only did farmers learn new ways of producing crops and livestock, their wives were able to get information about nutrition, clothing and economics that helped the whole family. Soon, homemaker Extension clubs were a part of almost every farm community. These provided a learning environment as well as a social outlet for those women who were working hard every day to raise families, grow gardens and help with milking and other farm operations.
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation's Agricultural Division and the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service will present the 19th Southern Plains Beef Symposium from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 8 at the Ardmore Convention Center. Speakers at the symposium, "Beyond the Horizon: The Changing Environment Facing Today's Beef Industry," will include Billy Cook, senior vice president and director of the Agricultural Division at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation; Daren Williams, executive director for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association; Ben Wileman, beef cattle clinician and research associate at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine; Tommy Beall, cattle market analyst for Beall Consulting Group; Dave Lalman, extension beef cattle specialist and professor at Oklahoma Stat...
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service announces the availability of approximately $3 million in competitive grant funds for the FY 2012 SSDPG program. See the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (2012 Appropriations Act) (Pub. L. 112-55). We request proposals from applicants that will provide technical assistance to small, socially-disadvantaged agricultural producers in rural areas. Eligible applicants include Cooperatives, Groups of Cooperatives, and Cooperative Development Centers. The maximum award per grant is $175,000.
By focusing on voluntary cooperative use of the land, the MST is helping to confront the social injustices that have plagued Brazilian society while addressing resource limitations among the rural poor. They have developed over 400 cooperative production units, including marketing and service associations and 96 small and mediumsized agricultural food processing plants. MST settlements (or new village clusters) have established 1200 primary schools and 60 secondary schools with 150,000 pupils. Settlement activity has created 900,000 new jobs in the area of agriculture alone, with at least as many related jobs created in nearby cities. Social indicators, including infant mortality and school attendance, are generally dramatically better in MST settlements than in the rest of rural Brazil...
...CHAPTER V: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. PART ... POLICY FOR NON-ASSISTANCE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS. Subpart A: General. 550.2 - Definitio...
Hoop: Learn to be a 'ruthless' gardener How can you construct an inexpensive, effective, efficient greenhouse that will allow you to extend the growing season but won't break your bank account? With an easy-to-construct hoop house, says Del Jimenez, agricultural specialist for New Mexico State University's cooperative extension service in Alcalde. The hoop- house concept has been around for a long time, Jimenez says, but it was about 31?2 years ago that the extension service saw a need to help small agricultural producers in New Mexico extend their growing season so they would have more money coming in over a longer period of time. "We looked at what other universities had done and tried to improve on that," Jimenez says. "And the units that we make are about as cheap as you can build a...
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