Agriculture

Four judges sampled 39 wines from Nevada’s commercial winemakers and 73 from hobbyists on June 26 and June 27.

Urban Roots is selling Sustainable Harvest Bags for $35 for pickup Thursday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. for pickup at the Urban Roots’ Teaching Farm.

Farmers markets are returning to the area. But buying the locally grown food will come with some changes in light of coronavirus.

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 hornet is believed to have arrived in the Pacific Northwest through shipping cargo.

The 5-acre family farm is sprawling with 1,000 black berry and raspberry bushes, a wedding venue and pollinator garden.

Many industries across the nation are impacted by COVID-19 and the dairy industry is no different.

With open tours and courses available to the public during the Nevada Farms Conference, the goal is to teach economic sustainability.

Do you know where your food comes from?

Back in 1995 researchers up at UNR opened up greenhouses and started growing grapes. It was an industry, they said, Nevada was missing out on.

People who take part in the planting of the vineyard can learn the basics in how to develop a vineyard.

You can start planting hearty vegetables like potatoes, kale, lettuce and cabbage now because they tend to thrive in cooler temperatures.

NDA says the agreement addresses fertility control and leaves room for additional cooperative agreements.

It's been grown in north Africa for thousands of years. Now it's making an impact on gluten-conscious consumers and drought-weary Nevada farmers.

It would also ban sales from other states not meeting California's standards.

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 event includes demonstrations on advancements in agriculture, horticulture, nutrition, natural resources and the environment.

Salmon have a lousy problem, and the race to solve it is spanning the globe.

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.

A new campaign is putting a spotlight on Nevada produce and the work that is going into increasing the varieties grown in the state.

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.

No northern Nevada community suffered more during the drought than Lovelock and none has seen a more dramatic turnaround this year.

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.

Fallon area farmers got good news today. They'll have all the water they want this year. The problem now is what to do with too much of it.

Europe is suffering a shortage of lettuce, broccoli and other vegetables, with shelves going bare in some supermarkets, due to bad weather.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is creating a plan for managing commercial fish farms, known as aquaculture, in federal waters around the Pacific.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a destructive agricultural pest has been found in a shipment at the Port of Philadelphia.

Two years after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill designed to limit groundwater pumping, new wells are going in faster and deeper than ever.