Cargill announced the private company will sell two of its beef cattle feed yards in Bovina and Dalhart, Texas to Amarillo-based Friona Industries. Sponsored ContentParka Helps California Citrus Growers Protect …
China Reports Soft Inflation Data
China’s Consumer Price Index climbed 1.9 percent in June from a year ago, while analysts had expected a 1.8 percent gain. Sponsored ContentParka Helps California Citrus Growers Protect Fruit Quality …
Groundwater Monitoring Improves
DWR/Local Groundwater Monitoring Partnership Expands and Improves The latest update on California’s efforts to track groundwater shows that 94 percent of the state’s 127 high- and medium-priority groundwater basins are …
Mid-Year Field Crop and Acreage Production
Barley: California’s barley harvested acreage is forecast at 30 thousand, is up 20 percent increase from last year. Nationally, Harvested acres at 2.58 million acres, is down 17 percent from …
Cotton Crop Condition Takes Small Hit
The condition of the nation’s cotton crop has taken a small hit over the last week. Gary Crawford has the story. Sponsored ContentParka Helps California Citrus Growers Protect Fruit Quality and …
Smelt Plan Calls for More Water Release
Strategies Aimed at Improving Survival of Endangered Fish, But Call for New Summer Water Release The California Department of Natural Resources has released a new multi-part strategy for the sole …
Partnership Keeps Pressure on Nut Cargo Theft
Verisk’s CargoNet business and WAPA align to mitigate cargo theft in the tree nut industry Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, announced an alliance between its CargoNet® business …
Funding to Address Climate Change Impact on Agriculture
NIFA Announces $8.4 Million in Funding to Address Climate Change Impact on US Agriculture The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced the availability …
CA Welcomes Farmers Market Proclamation
California welcomes proclamation of National Farmers Market Week in August by Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently signed a proclamation designating August 7-13, 2016 …
Citrus Forecast has Slight Changes
The final citrus crop forecast of the 2015-16 season, issued by Mark Hudson, USDA Agricultural Statistics Board, is up 2.5 million boxes for California, now at 54.5 million boxes. The total comprises 44 million …
McCarthy: House Will Consider GMO Labeling Bill This Week
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) says the U.S. House of Representatives will consider the Senate’s GMO labeling bill this week. Sponsored ContentParka Helps California Citrus Growers Protect Fruit Quality …
Forecasting Temperatures Easier Than Rain
Predicting precipitation in California can be a hard task. Forecasting temperatures for the state is much easier and climatologists say there is a clear warming trend. Sponsored ContentParka Helps California …
Identifying Ants First Step in Control
Ants are a hit-or-miss pest in almonds, depending a lot on the soil type of the orchard. Advisors say properly identifying ants is an important step to determining pressure. Sponsored …
Commodity Carnival
Cathy Isom gives us information about the game teaching young student’s real life risk rewards of farming and commodity trading. That story’s ahead on This Land of Ours. Sponsored ContentParka …