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May 17, 2023 | agfax.com | Steve Linscombe |USA Rice |Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time

Rice research is just one aspect of The Rice Foundation mission (USA Rice) WASHINGTON, DC – The Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc. (AARQ) recently donated $250,000 to The Rice Foundation, a 501c(3) organization that represents all segments of the U.S. rice industry with a mission to further the well-being of its members and ensure the long-term sustainability and future competitiveness of U.S. rice.

May 17, 2023 | agfax.com | Joelle Orem |Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time

Program crops have dramatically different enrollments in the two major commodity title choices:  Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agricultural Risk Coverage at the county level (ARC-CO). Soybeans has a high enrollment in ARC-CO, while peanuts, rice, and seed cotton have almost all their acres enrolled in PLC. Corn and wheat have switched back and forth between the programs over the lives of the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills.

May 16, 2023 | agfax.com | Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time

Rural electric cooperatives, utilities and other energy providers will soon be able to apply for nearly $11 billion in grants and loans for clean energy projects, the Biden administration said on Tuesday. The funding comes from the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act signed into law last August. Expanding clean energy to rural communities is critical to meeting the administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, officials told reporters on a Monday press call.

May 16, 2023 | agfax.com | Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time

(USDA) Thirty percent of groundwater organizations cite nitrate contamination as a groundwater quality concern. Nitrates can come from animal manure and chemical fertilizers that leach into groundwater. When groundwater pumping exceeds the volume of groundwater recharge, the concentration of contaminants like nitrates can increase. Nitrate contamination is a concern on more than half of the groundwater-fed irrigated acreage within groundwater organization service areas.