NIFA, NSF Announce $14.5 Million in Available Funding for Plant-Biotic Research The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) joined with the National Science Foundation …
Monitoring for Scale Crawlers Earlier
Seeing where you’re at with scale management is important for Walnut growers this time of year and one common monitoring practice needs to start being done earlier than normal. Sponsored …
Some Mating Disruption Becoming Cheaper
It’s also that time of year for walnut growers to be monitoring for codling moth and some updates on mating disruption might make the practice a little more feasible for …
ACP Monitoring ‘Springs’ Into Action
Spring in California is time to inspect citrus trees for Asian citrus psyllid A telltale sign of spring in California is a flush of new leaf growth on citrus trees. …
Plant App Pl@ntNet
A plant app that could have your smartphone living up to its name when it comes to looking at plants. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Sponsored ContentBeef …
Simplifying the Data Ownership Dilemma
New Legal Agreements Empower Farmers to Take Full Ownership and Control of Farm Data Farmobile, the fast-growing technology company specializing in farm data, announces pro-farmer legal agreements that clearly govern …
Livestock Review
California Milk Production California milk producers had a total of 1.78 million milk cows for January that produced 3.44 billion pounds of milk. Milk production is up 2 percent from December, …
NMPF President Testifies Before Senate Panel
NMPF President Tells Senate Panel about Possibilities, Pitfalls with Past Free Trade Agreements Even after free trade agreements are negotiated by the U.S. government, the value of the pacts depends …
Time for Walnut Scale Monitoring
It’s that time of year again for growers to address walnut scale populations in their orchards and that starts with good monitoring to see what pressure there really is. Sponsored …
ACP Education for Northern California
The Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention Program is aiming to educate the northern California citrus industry on Asian citrus psyllid management as the pest continues to move up the state. …
Connecting Drones in Real Time
New technologies for drones like the Botlink XRD can connect the device to the internet, creating real time image transfers and making it easier and safer to operate the aerial …
NMPF Supports New Senate Food Labeling Bill Approved Today by Agriculture Committee
The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) today urged the full Senate to act quickly on legislation that would establish national regulations to bring consistency and transparency to the labeling of …
New Dairy Conference Focuses on Golden State
Dairy advisors and specialists have decided it’s time to have a California specific dairy conference and plan to launch the inaugural event next week. Sponsored ContentBeef on Dairy Industry Report …
Asian Wasps Could Help Stink Bug Control
UC and CDFA researchers make progress in fight against exotic brown marmorated stink bugs. Scientists are rearing tiny Asian wasps in quarantine and evaluating whether they can be released in …