- Washington, DC, American Farmland Trust (AFT) announces the availability of the Norm Berg Special Collection, an online archive of speeches and writings by and about Norm Berg. Berg is a living link to the beginnings of agricultural conservation in the United States. He worked for the first chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Soil Conservation Service (SCS), and then steadily rose through the ranks serving as chief from 1979 until 1982. Berg advocated for a broader understanding of agricultural conservation, recognizing, before most, that development posed a serious threat to the nation’s agricultural resources.
- Cotton growers now have access to America’s leading foliar fungicide to control key yield-robbing diseases and boost plant health in their cotton acres with the EPA registration of Headline® fungicide from BASF. One of the key advantages of a foliar application of Headline in cotton is the protection it provides against diseases so cotton plants are not stressed during the peak production period. Since the application timing for Headline will be similar to the timing for an insecticide and/or Pentia spray, Headline could be tank-mixed with these products to make applications more efficient across the cotton fields.
- Thanks to the hard work and efforts led by the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers and Ranchers program, AFBF has been recognized as the 2007 Trade Organization of the Year by America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest food bank network. AFBF received the honor because of its many contributions through the organization’s “Harvest for All” program, a partnership between Farm Bureau and America’s Second Harvest spearheaded by the AFBF YF&R Committee. Since it was launched on Hunger Awareness Day in June of 2003, the program has contributed the equivalent of more than 10 million meals to the nation’s hungry, including 4.5 million pounds of donated food, $489,000 dollars raised and over 20,000 combined volunteer hours.
