Department of Agriculture

New Jersey school uses $1M grant to produce maple syrup

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A university in New Jersey is spending a $1 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture on testing the feasibility of a maple syrup industry in the Garden State. Stockton University is in its fourth year of producing syrup from the 300 acres of red maple trees surrounding the school, whose campus spans from … Read more

Wild horses are being hit by cars at an alarming rate near Tahoe

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Members of a wild horse herd in Reno, Nev., with a subdevelopment in the background. gchapel/Getty Images In the remote towns of the Sierra Nevada, a recent spike in bears being struck by cars has raised questions over the coexistence of bears and humans — are there too many bears, or are there too many cars? But … Read more