Farm Journal Foundation

Dedicated to achieving global food security by sustaining modern agriculture's leadership role and ability to meet the vital needs of a growing population

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Our Farmer Ambassadors are back in town in D.C. and meeting with @USDA today. Great conversation about ag r&d!

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We are grateful to see this commitment to agricultural research & development. Thank you @USDA!

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Big News! Today we celebrate the completion and opening of the newly constructed Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory in Kerrville, Texas. This state-of-the-art facility will provide America’s cattle industry with critical research and advanced technologies to help control and eradicate invasive flies and ticks – including New World screwworm. https://t.co/ML3h5tW051

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Our Senior Policy Adviser Dr. @samara333 recently spoke at The Policy 101 Workshop, held on the campus of the @IITA_CGIAR in Ibadan, Nigeria. They are one of the 13 centers of the @CGIAR System. Check it out!

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In case you missed it and are looking for some weekend reading! Our Arkansas Farmer Ambassador Brad Doyle wrote an op-ed on investment in innovation that was featured across multiple publications. Here's the link to the @ArkansasOnline:
https://t.co/DYWKonhdLo

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Check out this op-ed in the Jonesboro Sun by our Arkansas Farmer Ambassador Brad Doyle on why investment in innovation is critical for famers, especially now.

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Happy to report that planting is in full swing and blooms are starting in the @USDA Voice of the Farmer Garden!

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The rice is in! Thank you to @LSUAgCenter for donating three varieties: Avant Long, Venus Medium, and Fitzgerald Long Aromatic. The Voice of the Farmer Garden is filling up with so many great crops this season!

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Farm Journal Foundation is hiring a Vice President of Development. If this sounds like the right fit for you, email your cover letter/resume to Tricia Beal at [email protected]. We look forward to expanding the FJF team!
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With the America Grows Act, Congress would appropriate a 5% funding increase each year for the next 10 years for research activities driven by USDA. Thank you Sen. @DickDurbin and Sen. @JerryMoran for this pivotal bipartisan legislation!
https://t.co/NIN6bsaP7A

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Catching the spirit of planting! Thank you to the @ASA_Soybeans for coming out to the Voice of the Farmer Garden this week and adding soybeans to show off American agriculture!

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Thank you to @NationalCorn for planting sweet & field corn this week in our Voice of the Farmer Garden on the National Mall!

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Celebrating planting season today on #ArborDay! Look at these blooms in the Voice of the Farmer Garden!

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Check out our MI Farmer Ambassador Ken Nobis!

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.@michiganstateu's Dr. Richard Pursley is using M-AAA funding to develop fertility programs that raise conception rates, reduce herd turnover and strengthen the long-term viability of MI dairy farms. Ken Nobis shares how this work helped his farm.

READ: https://t.co/A7ixJh3WxR

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A night of sharing the impact of agricultural research with Congressional members. Thank you to @NationalCFAR for having us and for having our MD Farmer Ambassador, Belinda Burrier, speak to the group! We appreciate the continued partnership in the ag R&D space.

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A thoughtful op-ed in Agri-Pulse Communications by our partner Dr. @IsmahaneElouafi, Executive Managing Director at @CGIAR, on why investments in agricultural research can prove to be strategic for the U.S. Read it here: https://t.co/HLP8iBVJpl

[Ismahane Elouafi @CGIAR_EMD]

📍Washington, DC 🇺🇸 Thanks to our partners at @FarmJFoundation, we joined US Congressional staffers to share how food security underpins national security, and how US farmers and the economy benefit from @CGIAR research.

[Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) @FoundationFAR]

"As a farmer, I seek out the tools we need to make sure we're prepared."

One of our newest Board of Directors, Ambassador and farmer Kip Tom, spoke on the Hill yesterday about the importance of agriculture research investments in the face of threats to U.S. national security interests.

From developing vaccines for devastating diseases like African Swine Fever before it arrives on American shores to identifying crop varieties that require fewer inputs, FFAR-funded research is seeking ways to increase the resilience of the U.S. food supply.

Ambassador Tom was joined by @CGIAR 's Dr. Ismahane Eloufai, @ClemsonUniv 's Dr. Jagger Harvey and @ADMupdates 's Bryan Dierlam for this bipartisan lunch-n-learn event for congressional staff.

Thanks to our friends at the @FarmJFoundation for putting together this timely and insightful conversation.

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

Today at the Southern Border, we officially broke ground on @USDA’s new sterile New World Screwworm production facility.🇺🇸

For months, we’ve been on offense:
• Monitoring 8,000+ traps along the southern border
• Testing nearly 51,000 fly specimens — all negative
• Inspecting 15,000+ animals across 78 species in 176 counties — all clear
• Suspending high-risk livestock imports
• Expanding surveillance, staffing, and sterile fly operations
• Opened South TX dispersal facility & modernized Mextapa facility

Thanks to this effort, we have held the line and NO NWS has gotten across the border.

And now, we’re finishing this fight.

This facility will produce up to 300 million sterile flies per week, giving the United States the ability to stop this dangerous pest before it ever threatens our ranchers, our herds, or our food supply.  

This is about more than a facility.  
It’s about protecting livelihoods.  
It’s about securing our supply chain.  
And it’s about making sure America never has to rely on anyone else to defend its agriculture.  

Big shout out and thank you to my partners @SecWar, @SecMullinDHS, and @USACEHQ for moving this project at TRUMP SPEED. What would normally take years in previous administrations, took months instead. So grateful.

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Check it out! Our Delaware Farmer Ambassador Dave Marvel helped organize a visit to Shadybrook Farms last week with Sen. @ChrisCoons and his team to talk about agriculture and global food security.

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Chief Bettencourt joined the @FarmJFoundation last month for National Ag Day and to celebrate the annual planting of the Voice of the Farmer Garden outside of @USDA headquarters in D.C. In the garden, you'll find a variety of crops ranging from corn to peppers, and even lettuce!