…(FREP). Sakakihara Farms, strawberry growers, like other California growers, are learning to grow their crops despite drought conditions, by using newer high-tech tools that help monitor water and fertilizer use….
Resource to Help Food Hubs
…care facilities; financed 180,000 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines; and helped bring high-speed Internet access to nearly 6 million rural residents and businesses. For more information, visit www.usda.gov/results….
Agri View: Ostrich Farming
…attention for their ultra-fine quality. Ostrich ranchers both in the US and South Africa are beginning to turn over high profits. However, the industry is not without its problems, and…
Rice Paddies Fueling Electric Vehicles
…small size, high porosity, and interconnectedness, the developed nanostructures exhibited higher capacity, cycle stability and cycle life. To follow up on the progress made, the researchers are investigating how to…
Agri View: Farming Times
…Stallman The last decade will almost certainly be remembered as a golden age of agriculture in the United States. High global demand, a cheap dollar and bumper crops meant farming…
Clean Water Crisis Threatens U.S.
…and treatment plants would run about $384 billion. The American Water Works Association’s estimates are even higher. The nonprofit group says the cost of just maintaining current systems and fitting…
Agri View: Robot Tractors and Agriculture
…“Robotic solutions have to deal with unstructured environments and unstructured targets,” Tractica reported. “The farm environment is usually dynamic, uncertain, complex, highly variable, and hostile. And the targets for the…
U.S. Agriculture in Vietnam
…United States exported $32.3 million of beef and beef products to Vietnam in 2015. Under the TPP agreement, all of Vietnam’s tariffs on beef and beef products, currently as high…
Agri View: Grand Champion
…The price of beef reached a record high last year at the Fort Worth Stock Show. The grand champion steer, Bob Marley, sold for a record $240,000 in the annual…
Transitioning to Organic Certification
…and built a high tunnel. Our current contract includes extensive perennial plantings for buffers and beneficial insects. NRCS has really helped us fine tune our fertility and address a broad…
Agri View: Cotton Producers Troubles
…mill use will create another challenging marketing year for cotton in 2016. “While world mill use is expected to exceed world production in 2016, global cotton stocks remain at high…
Water, Markets Complicate Farms’ Planting Plans
…product price is down $7.50 a ton compared to last year. In areas not getting a decent water allocation, they’re looking at high water prices and lower market prices. It…
CA Students Honored
…and Computer Science Teacher for Monta Vista High School. “This project emerged out of a life experience for Sanjana’s family that could be prevented for others. It also has great…
Innovative Pest Management Solutions
…human health.” Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy The CPPM program helps researchers develop innovative approaches for managing high priority pests at the state, regional and national levels. The program seeks effective new…