HANOVER, New Hampshire, Feb. 15 (TNSJou) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: * * * Dung-rich sediment provides definitive evidence of millet farming in the region. * * * In 2019, archaeologist Jesse Casana and Elise Laugier, Guarini '21, were conducting excavations in the remains of a 3,500-year-old city in Iraqi Kurdistan when they uncovered a "midden," aka a heap of refuse. For archaeologists, finding a midden is like hitting the jackpot because it provides clues into t  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency issued the following news release on Feb. 16, 2022: Agricultural producers who have not yet enrolled in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2022 crop year have until March 15, 2022, to sign a contract. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers these two safety net programs to provide vital income support to farmers experiencing substantial declines in crop prices   more

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 15 -- The Federated Farmers of New Zealand issued the following news release: Three weeks of on and off rain, with the weekend's storm a sting in the tail, have caused widespread damage to arable crops up and down the country. "Talking to farmers who have been around for a while, some of them are calling it the worst harvest season in living memory," Federated Farmers Arable Chairperson Colin Hurst said. "Normally we'd be most of the way through harvest by now bu  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, encouraged North Dakota agriculture producers to enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) or Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs for the 2022 crop year before the March 15, 2022 deadline. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers these two safety net programs to provide vital income support to  more

MADISON, Wis., Feb. 16 (TNSJou) -- The Soil Science Society of America issued the following news release: Studying new fertilizer options is the first step to getting farmers to eventually use them on their crops. A mineral called struvite has the potential to be an effective phosphorus fertilizer that may be considered organic. Joanne Thiessen Martens, researcher from the University of Manitoba - Canada, along with collaborators, studied how struvite impacted three crops. These were spring wh  more