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TOPIC(S): Soil Health, USDA, Carbon Farming,

06/26/2023 SOURCE: www.climatehubs.usda.gov

Soil Health, Soil Amendments, and Carbon Farming | USDA Climate Hubs

Natural and working lands play a vital role in helping California meet its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. There is huge potential to store carbon in soils on croplands and rangelands in California using soil amendments. In addition to enhancing soil carbon sequestration, soil amendments may provide co-benefits to growers such as increased crop and forage yields and improved soil health.

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TOPIC(S): Wheat, Education U.S. MidWest, USDA,
TOPIC(S): Soybeans, Agriculture Global, USDA,
TOPIC(S): USDA, Renewable Energy (Solar/Wind),

06/12/2023 SOURCE: www.nifa.usda.gov

Powering Up

FVSU Extension is leading way in offering clean and renewable energy to middle Georgia residents with new solar operation. The solar farm consists of a model demonstration site dedicated for academic and research use. It will serve as a power source for energy-dependent applications at the FVSU Sustainable Research Site.  Fort Valley State University is playing a role in bringing clean and renewable energy to residents of middle Georgia. In collaboration with Georgia Power Company, a solar farm of more than 107 acres was built on FVSU’s campus in 2021. This story is reprinted with permission of Fort Valley State University and first appeared here.  The facility, one of the largest solar operations on a college campus in the United States, consists of more than 27,000 solar panels (400 watts each) that includes a connected sub-station built at a cost of more than $9 million. FVSU did not incur any costs in the construction of the facility.   In addition to the solar farm, the solar farm consists of a model demonstration site dedicated for academic and research use. It will serve as a power source for energy dependent applications at the FVSU Sustainable Research Site.   “This solar project will expand FVSU’s Cooperative Extension Program in Agricultural and Natural Resources (ANR) to include renewable energy,” said Dr. Cedric Ogden, FVSU professor of engineering technology and Cooperative Extension engineer specialist. “It will also provide additional opportunities for FVSU and the Extension program in the areas of sustainability, climate change awareness and alternative energy,” Ogden said.  FVSU’s Cooperative Extension Program is supported in part by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture through capacity funding.  More than 10.8 megawatts (10.8MW) of power can be generated by the farm to more than 3,000 homes in the middle Georgia area. FVSU will not receive any of this power. This is done with solar panels and the substation converting sunlight to electrical power through the...

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Biden-Harris Administration Makes Historic, $11 Billion Investment to Advance Clean Energy Across Rural America Through Investing in America Agenda

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2023 – The Biden-Harris Administration today announced the availability of nearly $11 billion in grants and loan opportunities that will help rural energy and utility providers bring affordable, reliable clean energy to their communities across the country. This represents the single largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in 1936.

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