U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is leading the entire Nevada Congressional delegation in calling for the USDA to provide support for Nevada ranchers and farmers affected by severe winter weather.
Haaland also touted the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that invests $8.3 billion in water and drought resilience that will fund water efficiency and recycling programs and rural water projects.
Gov. Sisolak, The Nevada Department of Agriculture and the National Association of State Department of Agriculture Foundation recently announced the selection of 10 Nevada women for the Farm2Food Accelerator program.
A consultant for Lithium Nevada Corp., a subsidiary of the Canada-based Lithium Americas Corp., prepared “a one-sided, deeply-flawed" analysis of the project, according to the lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Reno.
Local farms discuss how COVID-19 is impacting our food supply as many are rushing to the grocery stores only to find produce is becoming scarce, but shopping local can help strengthen our economy.
The Ag Department says the intent of the RFP was to select an owner who would work to maintain the horse population on the range and facilitate necessary horse adoptions.
The Nevada Department of Agriculture has sent out an interesting warning to residents. Apparently cattle ranchers are reporting calves missing at the hands of people passing by a baby cow.
The record heat that baked Northern California over the Labor Day weekend left wine grapes shriveling on the vines, reducing many of them to raisins before the normal harvest and turning what was looking to be a promising vintage into a year that looks more uncertain.
Wild horse advocates have scored a victory in Nevada in an ongoing legal battle with rural interests who they say want to round up federally protected mustangs across the West and sell them for slaughter.
Our area has the probability of increased noxious weeds, which are invasive weed species that can be detrimental or destructive to Nevada’s landscapes.
On Saturday, Feb. 18, the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) began receiving accounts of horses exposed to equine herpes virus type 4 (EHV-4) and Streptococcus equi bacterial infection (also known as strangles or equine distemper). Both diseases are highly contagious among horses, and strangles is listed on the National List of Reportable Animal Diseases.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific.