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A five-year $5 million USDA grant is providing funding for a multipronged research project at CSU Monterey Bay.

The work will help those who monitor major watersheds as well as farmers and ag producers.

Two new programs in the colleges of business and science will train the modern agriculture industry workforce.

Karen Ross, the secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, will be the keynote this year’s Greater Vision.

It may be years before the impact of the recently announced NextGen grants will make a difference in American agriculture. But several of the grants awarded to colleges and universities in the Monterey Bay region seem certain to quickly strengthen the ties between those institutions as well as with the local agricultural industry.

ÐÔÊӽ紫ý’s agricultural plant and soil science program has received a $5 million grant to expand and offer an enhanced career path to graduating students.

ÐÔÊӽ紫ý and NASA Scientist Forrest Melton was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Public Service Medal.

ÐÔÊӽ紫ý has been awarded a $975,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to increase participation in the food, agriculture, natural resources and human science.

Greater Vision, an annual, agriculture-related, public education event organized by CSU Monterey Bay and the Grower-Shipper Association Foundation , returns on Monday, Oct. 5. The focus of the talks and panel sessions, all virtual online this year, is Climate Smart Agriculture: Current Impacts, Future Projections, Essential Skills.

A new coalition has honed in on the epicenter of a Monterey County coronavirus population hotspot: farmworkers. Thousands of seasonal workers have arrived to the Salinas Valley for the summer harvest, and that—along with misinformation, a fear of deportation and cramped living and transportation quarters—has created a recipe for widespread infections.