…the mailers are purely used to gather as much information as they can from the field. San Joaquin County Resource Conservation Coalition Program Manager Mike Wackman says the forms caused…
Vineyard Team Celebrating 20 Years
…Day Food and Wine Weekend. The organization boasts a membership representing 80K acres, and more than 1,000 people are reached annually through the field days and workshops. Over the years,…
CWA Calls California FFA to Tell Their Truth
…is important to the future of agriculture.” CWA members are dedicated to promoting agriculture literacy and encourage today’s youth to pursue a career in the field of agriculture. With over…
Atwater FFA Charters a Strong Showing at Arbuckle Field Day
…bus and joined a record 1400+ high school students throughout central and northern California at the Arbuckle FFA Field Day on February 7th. The FFA Field Day marks the beginning…
Vilsack Announces $30 Million to Fight Citrus Disease
…due to HLB infection. One of those will field test rootstocks that have shown ability to tolerate HLB infection. The other will use technologies to rapidly propagate the tolerant material…
California’s Diversity Reflected In Pesticide Outreach
California’s diversity isn’t just seen in its crops, but also in the people who grow them. This slideshow requires JavaScript. In the fields, you’ll hear workers speaking not only Spanish…
Iteris and F4F Agriculture Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Establish Formal Partnership
…enable agribusinesses to ingest specific, actionable, high-resolution weather, crop and soil information for data-driven farming. The ClearAg™ API platform takes field-specific weather, combines it with the science of soil and…
CDFA Announces New Grant Funding Opportunity for Nitrogen Management Research
…nitrous oxide emission. Proposals on employment of easy-to-use technology at the field-scale and development of integrated water and nutrient management tools are also encouraged. In particular, FREP seeks proposals on…
Atwater FFA Students Advance to Regional Speaking Finals
…agriculture program sophomore Jasmine Flores placed first overall and will be moving onto the regional finals in the Impromptu Speaking contest. The impromptu speech is given without any preparation, any…
International Center for Water Technology receives up to $1.12M grant
…in all segments of the water field. We’ve worked with 35 companies the last 1 1/2 years to foster new ideas in the sector, and we’re looking forward to encouraging…
UC Makes Gains in Rebuilding its Extension Service
…field or doing research. For this reason, Scott Oneto, a farm advisor and county director of UC Central Sierra Cooperative Extension, which covers El Dorado, Tuolumne, Calaveras and Amador counties,…
Use of Fumigant to Face Additional State Restrictions
…surrounding neighbors and to conduct field monitoring. I believe that input helped preserve this provision as an option, as opposed to having to do both activities,” Cory said. Fumigants can…
Dithane® F-45 Rainshield® Fungicide Registered for Walnuts
…field scientist. “In fact, growers have relied on this combination for more than 20 years. University of California efficacy trials continue to show the mancozeb + copper combination is the…
Tomato Processors Expect to Contract 15 Million Tons in 2015
The USDA-NASS California Field Office surveyed the State’s tomato processors for their intended contract acreage and tonnage for the upcoming 2015 season. The data reported by processors was either tonnage…