…the complete picture including air quality impacts.” UC Irvine received $701,304 to study the effects of ammonia and rising global temperatures on secondary organic aerosol formation. “This grant offers an…
Grants to Help Ag Producers Increase Value of Their Products
…schools, public safety and health 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….
New walnut variety ‘Durham’ released
…color, averaging 95% light and extra light with a high proportion of extra light and averaging 55.4 RLI in trials. The uniform, oval-shaped nuts average 15.1 grams in weight and…
Climate Change a Good Thing for Wine?
…vineyards. Chateau de Rully with vineyards, Burgundy, France Here, the conditions needed to produce early-ripening fruit, which is historically associated with highly rated wines, have become more frequent, according to…
Agri View: Foreign Vegetables
…Mexico. At present, almost three million Mexican peasants sell corn at price levels set high enough by their government to secure farmers sufficient cash income to survive. This system requires…
Treatments to Begin for the Japanese Beetle
…is injured by eating the silk which interferes with formation of kernels. Soft fruits such as grapes, berries, and stone fruits may be completely consumed. Medium to high densities of…
Agri View: 2016 Farm Outlook
…corn and soybeans—historically the crops generating the highest crop cash receipts—are both expected to be fairly flat in 2016. Since hitting a record high in 2012, corn receipts are forecast…
Local Food Market
…Manual” (Penguin, 2009). Does it taste better? Surveys conducted at farmers markets have found that people tend to shop there because they think the food is of higher quality and…
Agri View: El Niño
…which leads to different outcomes. However, this particular data set used for the initial conditions has unrealistically cold temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. This smells fishy so it is…
Secretary Ross in Vietnam
…more than three decades, WUSATA has offered programs and services to assist exporters of high-value food and agricultural products. There are three short videos chronicling the trip, so far. The…
Response to CVP Water Allocation Announcement
…in order to make California’s water supply system work, we have to implement a “big gulp, little sip” strategy; to take advantage of periods of high flow so that additional…
2016 Award Winners for Agriculture, Technology
…County from India in 1966, at the age of 13. He began farming with his father in 1976, after graduating from Yuba City High School and Cal Poly, San Luis…
Agri View: Farm-Raised
…mislabeling, The New York Times showed that fish sold as wild salmon by high-end New York City markets was mostly farm-raised, selling for as much as $29 a pound. Unfortunately,…
DWR Reaches Agreement Related to California WaterFix
…operating, even when flows into the Delta run high. With new Sacramento River intakes connected by 40-mile-long tunnels to the existing pumping plants, California WaterFix would protect fish against reverse…