…are extremely valuable markets for U.S. beef. We not only export steaks and ground beef, but this region demands high quality variety meats like beef tongue. Those products bring a…
Remote Sensing: Future of Irrigation
…Management Specialist Emeritus Dr. David Goldhamer says the only thing keeping remote sensing technology from being used more widely in pistachios is the challenge to get high elevation imagery on…
Salt in Our Diet
…we need? According to the American Heart Association (AHA), sodium consumption should not exceed 1.5g per day (3.75g of salt), and that even includes healthy people without high blood pressure,…
Agri View: Food Consumption
…of volunteers, some eating a high-fiber diet, others a diet low in fiber. To universal surprise, the high-fiber diet showed no benefit in reducing risk. Produce in Perspective Sharon Ross,…
DWR Draft Regulations for Managing Groundwater Basins Sustainably
…alternatives to such plans, as well as coordination agreements between local agencies in high– and medium-priority groundwater basins by June 1, 2016. Technical and financial assistance will be available to…
Agri View: Drugs, Unsolvable Problem
…recreational activity by sections of the population. Illicit drugs are considered to be a commodity with strong demand, as they are typically sold at a high value. This high price…
Green Industry Advances Are Focus of March 9 Conference; Awards Ceremony
…take place at the Buchanan High School Energy and Environmental Research Center in Clovis, CA, and the Induction Ceremony will be held at the Center for Advanced Research and Technology…
Grinder Demo Shows Orchard Removal Options
…and after 11 years, several benefits were realized, most notably, higher soil nutrient levels, lower pH and more organic matter (OM). The OM bound up sodium to the extent that…
Agri View: GMO Foods Ruling
…a new canola oil had increased lauric acid content compared to conventional canola oil, we required the oil to be labeled “laurate canola oil.” Similarly, soybean oil containing higher levels…
Western View: Behind the Sagebrush Rebellion
…would sell this amazing resource to the highest bidder. If that happens, imagine what we would lose. The least of which is recreational access. The big thing that comes to…
TPP Report on Impacts to Agriculture
…agreement is implemented, tariffs as high as 10% on U.S. cotton exported into Vietnam will be eliminated, and Japan’s “gate price” duty on pork will be reduced by 90%. #2:…
Agri View: Coffee, Healthy or Not?
…the thinking about coffee? Earlier studies didn’t always take into account that known high-risk behaviors, such as smoking and physical inactivity, tended to be more common among heavy coffee drinkers…
National Almond Day
…New Mexico and Georgia. But growers soon discovered that the early blooming almond regularly fell to late frosts in those areas or to diseases of high humidity. In the 1850s,…
Agri View: El Niño Impact
…and La Niña? El Niño and La Niña are complex weather patterns resulting from variations in ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific. El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases…